Computers replacing humans in Black Box Finance – not likely IMHO

An interesting article about Human vs Computers in the black box trading environment – I don’t think they ever will as you need accountability so eventually a human will always be taking the final decision.

I remember in my degree 15 odd years ago they were raging about the paper-less office and I think technology has created more paper than less – so this is the same analogy.

EC2 and Amazon Web Services – or I need 100 machines quickly

I recently attended a a talk given by Mike Culver of Amazon around their new EC2 service. My eyes were opened to so many possibilities that this technology could provide but Matt Davey of Lab49 summaries my thoughts just as well.

Here is one example of a service written on top of EC2 – a scalable server farm.