Location: 2014 New Year's Eve reflections on life and technology. Over the past month or so, constantly encountering and using various software, platforms, or programming languages suddenly reminded me of a scene from two years ago when I was walking in India, with crowds swarming around (the picture shows a street scene in Varanasi, the holy city on the Ganges). That feeling of being surrounded by a huge amount of technology, as if you can never learn it all @@. It started because an elder recently spent tens of thousands of dollars on a financial software in the US, asking Morgan to help study it. Since leaving my previous company, I haven't touched more expensive financial software like Axioma (portfolio construction management, index replication), EPFR (Global Fund Flow), or platforms like Bloomberg, Reuters... for a while. But because of this new software, I had to relearn many things. It has some quite interesting features, such as Pattern Recognition using fuzzy theory, Expert System + Consensus Report, or Neural Network, which I often saw before... Since the entire software is composed of several different programming languages and platform combinations, plus other platform…
