Note on eMarket trading agent – Reflection

April 13, 2010

Photo by froodmat For reflection purpose, the results from 20 runs must be analyzed. And here is my way of doing that. Sorry this looks and acts so geeky, simply because I am also doing the very subject in UTS called “UNIX System Programming”. You can fetch all 20 result files and one Perl script [...]

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Note on eMarket Trading Agent – Day4

April 8, 2010

Last moment rush as always… I suspect the size of agents during each tournament will affect the total number of hotel bed vouchers offered by the single seller. And the above figure is what I’ve from a statistical analysis. Working on the second scenario right now and I am hoping this will be of worthwhile [...]

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Funny anime on Mac VS PC :)

April 7, 2010

A funny anime to watch And it wold be hilarious if the aged computer would say something like this :”…You connected to the world of Internet. Now no matter where you are, you can go online and look for high-resolution porn****phies on Google… ” Will he then be beaten to the death?

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In the eyes of a cynic…

April 1, 2010

Okay, I am by no means a cynic, I hardly ever bad-mouth people or criticize on an unfair world . I am just saying in my eyes, none of my previous projects is good enough to be proud of. I was asked a question on one career fair: “Of all your previous projects, which one [...]

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Simple demo to illustrate the webpage evolution

March 28, 2010

I’ve just uploaded my new demo. It is quite useful for those who wonder how a web page evolves from its original form to the fancy interface as in nowadays. Below is the link : Demo link It is not finished yet, however. Now only 1st, 2nd and 4th list items are fully working. The [...]

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Note on eMarket Trading Agent – Day3

March 25, 2010

First of all, my previous code contains a bug so above is the real histogram of the lowest flight ticket prices. Then, after hours of trials and errors, I’ve managed to get the histogram of the margins for the flight prices to drop or raise between two adjacent timesteps, quite useful if I am gonna [...]

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Note on eMarket Trading Agent – Day2

March 13, 2010

Click on the image above to see full post Page 1 : Facts proved by code If your agent does nothing, it ends with a negative asset of -12000, which is sure to be beaten by the default TestClient agent with no exception. Flight tickets are sold by the only seller in such a way [...]

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Note on eMarket Trading Agent – Day1

March 11, 2010

Click on the image above to see full post Page 1 : Environment setup Today I just setup the playground, need more time to dig into the client code. My working environment is a Cwgwin console on Windows XP SP2. The very first thing I like to do is to make some helper functions, .bashrc [...]

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How to use Google operators to get precise search results?

March 10, 2010

Everybody is using Google. However, not all people know about the secrets that how Google controls on its Search Engine Result Pages. A whole industry, namely SEO(Search Engine Optimization), is growing fast in recent years, based on the simple fact that search result pages now mean most dear to online merchants. People do care about [...]

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Google’s new toy – test your webpage speed

March 9, 2010

Google has heaps of cool stuff in labs for us to give them a try. I just found a pretty new one : In Google webmaster tools, click the “labs” tab in the left sidebar and you should see a new list item called “site performance”. Click on it and if you are using a [...]

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