Anybody else doing ‘wisdom of the crowd’ algorithms with Twitter to make money?

Why dont you post some of the results you are getting so it can be tracked.

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I mean, I guess I could just trust George Carlin’s comedy routine to make conclusions regarding rigorous mathematical theories describing stochastic processes.

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You came here to ask TigerDroppings. Watch out where you throw those stones.

I don't understand how someone posting a hash tag on Twitter could have any effect on a football line or outcome

But Im just a nobody on Tigerdroppings

I've been wanting to learn python. How should I start? Any tips to move along quickly?

I like Zed Shaw better than code academy for beginners.

As you start to get the hang of the language, the Mark Lutz books are good references. There's also just the straight docs on the python website.

Also can't forget everybody's favorite, stackoverflow.com

Python is a general purpose programming language that is also used for scripting. But python can be used for everything that is done in java.

Both python and java are interpreted during runtime. The term scripting usually means writing code to automate a certain process in a specific environment (like browser).

It's dynamically typed and is advantageous for good string processing features. I utilize Python within a specific OS, not an architecture, additionally (Unix in the case of Perl, Amoeba in the case of Python).

What exactly are you wanting to do with Python once you grasp the elementary basics?

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Both python and java are interpreted during runtime.

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I was going to do a "technically..." here, but after a little research and a lot of thought, the whole story is a lot more technical than it seems on the surface.

Java and Python programs have a lot in common as far as how they are executed. Both have an initial step where the source file is compiled to bytecode (python generates .pyc files and java .class files), then a program (the python "interpreter" or java "virtual machine") interprets the bytecode and generates machine code to finally be executed. Both Python and Java have been implemented in various ways, but the stock implementations differ in that Python's compile and interpret steps are combined into one command/program, while Java's are not. So I guess the main difference is just an implementation detail. It's the user experience.

To me, Python leans more toward "interpreted" than Java does because you can mark a Python source file as executable and run it directly as you would any other program. I don't think you can do that with a Java source file. But that's just my interpretation of the word, not really based on any technical reasoning.

The real answer, I guess, is that they are both compiled and they are both interpreted. Both languages compile source code into bytecode, and both interpret the bytecode at runtime. Further, both languages have just-in-time compilers available (Java's stock VM does it I believe, while Python has a couple available I think), which compile some or all of the bytecode down to machine code at runtime. Then you have systems like Android that compile Java to machine code ahead of time upon app install.


That's a lot of words to say basically nothing other than "there's a slight distinction but the whole situation is just fuzzy".