me: HEY DUDE LOOK WHAT YOU'RE MISSING IN TEXAS me: http://www.okcupid.com/profile/HighPocketsinTX Andrew: http://cdn.crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2008/09/tom_delay_mug_shot-790518.jpg Andrew: nearly indistinguishable me: jesus christ me: well done Andrew: you're in dallas? me: yep indeed Andrew: got your own apartment? me: yep Andrew: swell Andrew: did I ask if you used chrome? me: yeah, and you were going to show me something but I had to leave the coffee shop, don't have internet at my place yet Andrew: brooklyn.ego.fm:8000 Andrew: it takes about 10 minutes to boot though Andrew: on the server I mean Andrew: because it is very complicated me: link's not working for me Andrew: yeah, i know me: going to "oops" me: ok Andrew: i jus tstarted the server Andrew: it takes abotu 10 minutes to boot Andrew: so it will be up in 10 minutes me: oh, gotcha Andrew: but I have to admit, its among the best of my work Andrew: website that predicts stock prices by AI analyzing twitter chatter me: how long have you been working on this? Andrew: few days Andrew: weekend project me: have you tested it? Andrew: just on friday me: what's the next step? Andrew: picked BP and YHOO heavily, both rose me: seems like something you might want to keep secret Andrew: not necessarily me: remember PI? me: you'll accidentally find the name of God Andrew: good analogy, but im already afraid of jews me: at any rate, what's the game plan with this? Andrew: well, i wrote it to get a job Andrew: got fired on thursday me: got fired? me: why? Andrew: politics Andrew: no big deal, i have cash saved and got a nice severence Andrew: but i need a new job eventually Andrew: heres the thing Andrew: its mainly a toy - taking investment advice from twitter is a bad idea in general, too volatile me: right Andrew: though it does seem to be really good at picking stocks that are "in the news" me: one sec Andrew: thats not super hard to do by hand Andrew: k, its up now Andrew: its filled with fake data right now because the market is closed - so im not entirely sure how china got in there me: how does it differentiate between "Yahoo HQ blown up" and "Yahoo invents perpetual motion machine," or does it? me: is chatter deemed to be on average an indicator of near-future gains? Andrew: regression analysis - it associated words and phrases with a score by analyzing past tweets and assessing their correlation with price flux at certain intervals Andrew: yes, by the hour Andrew: the picks are "hour picks" Andrew: going to cut it to 20 minute picks when i get more twitter feeds Andrew: shorts are "sells", longs are "buys" me: right me: so how long are you set for financially up there? Andrew: depends on how much i spend Andrew: december? Andrew: but i want another job me: I imagine you can find another job before then? Andrew: i have a few offers right now Andrew: so likely me: very good Andrew: i was thinking that this project might be able to turn me a profit on subscription Andrew: I think i can get reddit headlines for a few hours - then charge stupid daytraders $100 a month for more granular data from teh system Andrew: then it doesnt matter how accurate the data is Andrew: i can market it as "automated social network data analysis for data traders" Andrew: ie, if you want to invest in yahoo for a few hours as a trader Andrew: you can click a button and see in depth detail on what the internet is saying about yahoo right now me: $100/month is low Andrew: possibly - theres a price point that is reasonable in there somewhere Andrew: and its a great turnkey business Andrew: all i have to do is collect to payments Andrew: also program occasionally, but i do that for free Andrew: im going to run on tuesday and prolly all next week to test data Andrew: then potentially launch "ad supported" version on monday Andrew: if it makes waves, ill do a subscription part me: well done me: give me the word and I can promote it me: when you're ready Andrew: i just want to make sure it runs well on at least one full day of data Andrew: it still does weird thing sometimes Andrew: i had to remove ticker symbols like "a", "all", "how", "see", "via", etc Andrew: because they make lots of false hits Andrew: eventually, the algorithm should be able to distinguish which of those are tickers and which are english noise