Wednesday, September 26, 2007

11 Days

Finished up with 3 digit coding. Used a different approach to coding so the pages is simplified and I can see whats happening with the program (Yea, I am a control freak). The average run takes 10 minutes but thats mostly because of some underlying process in excel which takes seconds before each cycle is repeated. Well, 10 minutes is bearable. No point spending time to optimize it.

Oh, spent last week finishing up FF 7 CC too. Great game. Still havent gotten the Ultima Sword but I will work on it when I have time again. Total time spent, 21 hrs now. Wohoo, I can understand the language for the whole game!

Went to Tokyo Game Show for the weekend. and Disney Sea too. Both was fun, but wow I spent 6 hrs to travel back and forth twice to Chiba the past weekend.
Disney Sea, finished most attractions except the 360 degree thingy and 20000 miles thingy which was closed. Definitely worth the 4700 Y. Oh i ate szechuanese food too. Not authentic, the smell dont even stain my clothes.

Study Takatoshi Ito and Tomoyoshi Yabu Senseis paper today again.
WHAT PROMOTES JAPAN TO
INTERVENE IN THE FOREX MARKET?
A NEW APPROACH TO A REACTION FUNCTION
Downloaded the data to try my hand at some analysis. Normally the regression etc is done with stats packages, but I hate those because of their inflexibility. So I am programming them in Excel and will try to build some optimizers to run my own analysis. Frankly, if the regression involves min/maxing a number by changing another, it should be able to be done easily with Solver. Well, at least thats my assumption. Weird, some results dont match up. It boil down to the asssumptions made, like how many days are there in a year. What a chore to try to match them back up.

Ohh and I just spend 990usd to register for CFA. I guess it is for real now. No turning back, gosh its so much money, I better work hard.

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