Python Developer - HFT Trading firm - Chicago, IL

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand
Mon Aug 23 04:34:48 EDT 2010


In message <8dbb89Fi3fU1 at mid.individual.net>, Gregory Ewing wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> Someone who doesn’t understand how positive feedback can lead to
>> instabilities in a dynamical system.
> 
> Let's hope the person they hire makes it his first task
> to introduce a big dollop of negative feedback into the
> system!

Actually the normal way to prevent instabilities is to add damping to leak 
the energy away. In an economic system, that’s generally called “Government 
regulation”.



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