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by hinkley 2272 days ago
A couple weeks ago someone brought up High Frequency Trading and while in theory it didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know, I’ve been chewing on the thesis of the linked article ever since: that the real trick to doing things quickly is to do them consistently. That variance causes far more kinds of practical problems than does average response time.
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Slow is smooth; smooth is fast.
Indeed.