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What if any financial software smart enough to make money was also smart enough to become self-aware. What if the financial crash was a strike against Skynet? Very nice piece of flash-fiction.
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LOCAL authorities across the UK were yesterday stunned to discover that Iceland is nothing more than a volcano surrounded by two million haddock.
As the volcano's banks refused to pay out, councils said they were convinced Iceland was a small, landlocked country next to Belgium with a long history of expert financial management. But after 15 minutes on the internet they confirmed it was nothing more than a slab of stinking lava populated by a handful of wilfully eccentric musicians and half a dozen heavily bearded trawler captains. -
Should be interesting to see how this one plays out...
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Anyone remember the Demo scene? Here's one written in Javascript, taking the piss out of social networking. Which goes to show you can do anything if you try hard enough.
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Date: 2008-10-10 07:01 pm (UTC)*laughs* You do know that most financial software is terrible, kludgey Excel macros? Yes, even the rocket-science fancypants quant stuff. In fact particularly that.
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Date: 2008-10-10 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-10 08:06 pm (UTC)(Actually, remembering some of the stuff you've said about work, it does sound like it's not quite a run-of-the-mill operation.)
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Date: 2008-10-10 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-10 10:47 pm (UTC)