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A Primer on Order Flow Trading As financial markets evolve and become increasingly sophisticated, the complexity of the analysis required to identify opportunities for profitable trading is continually rising. Amidst this evolution, order flow trading has emerged as an innovative approach to financial market analysis that enables traders to unravel the hidden dynamics of the supply and demand for financial instruments. At its core, order flow trading is a cutting-edge analytical framework that involves studying the dynamic flow of buy and sell orders in real-time.

This newsletter is presented by Rebuy, the commerce AI company. If you like the newsletter, feel free to get in touch with me or follow me on Medium, X, and LinkedIn. I try my best to produce useful/informative content. For a long time, the AI community has leveraged different styles of language models (e.g., n-gram models, RNNs, transformers, etc.) to automate generative and discriminative natural language tasks. This area of research experienced a surge of interest in 2018 with the proposal of BERT [10], which demonstrated that the transformer architecture, self-supervised pretraining, and supervised transfer learning form a powerful combination.

Orwell’s dislike of homosexuals follows him through his work like the clang of a medieval leper bell. In fact, ‘dislike’ is putting it mildly, for his attitude to the horde of ‘Nancy boys’, ‘pansies’ and maquerons (Homage to Catalonia’s Spanish equivalent) who mince through his private demonology is actually one of profound contempt. There is a rather revealing moment early on in Keep the Aspidistra Flying when, with Gordon standing vigilantly by his till, an obviously moneyed young man trips ‘Nancifully’ into the bookshop.

Here’s some local beer news for you and it has some national implications and probably international interest. Young Lion Brewing, founded in 2017 by Jennifer Newman and her partners, announced Wednesday in a press release that it will sell its brewery and taproom, located at 24 Lakeshore Dr. on the northern edge of Canandaigua Lake, to Brooklyn-based Other Half Brewing. Newman said the sale is expected to close in January. Other Half co-founder Andrew confirmed the sale.

I heard this song on some playlist or another a few years ago. It just popped up on my phone. Imagine my excitement when I discovered it was a song by the Monkees! A song, no doubt, from their sixties heyday, a psychedelic ballad that never got its due, lost to the winds of time. What a great cover this would be! What a discovery! And now imagine my surprise when I learned that it was actually written by my friend Ben Gibbard and recorded by the Monkees for their 2016 record Good Times!

TLDR: WATCH THE VIDEO (click above) UX designers are more than just designers. They’re choice architects. And how they choose to present us with things profoundly influences our choices. Take job search, for example. Recently I checked out Otta. Otta shows you jobs one at a time; this is called sequential ordering. You look, you evaluate, you click – or skip to the next option. The alternative UX design would be to show me multiple jobs at once.

From time to time, I make sure to re-read George Orwell’s classic essay, “Politics and the English Language.” It remains the best guide to writing non-fiction, and it usually prompts a wave of self-loathing even more piercing than my habitual kind. What it shows so brilliantly is how language itself is central to politics, that clarity is as hard as it is vital, and that blather is as lazy as it is dangerous.

The thesis is simple enough: the US is aging, and its 80 million+ boomers will need significant (long-term) care in the form of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, or at-home care. We think that the combination of community living costs increasing dramatically, boomers holding greater than half of all wealth in America (10x richer than millennials by the way), horror stories coming from nursing homes during the pandemic, and boomers wanting to age in place, will create massive opportunities for at-home care.

No, that’s not a typo in my headline. As I was taking down holiday decorations and driving home today, I kept ruminating on what I wanted to write for my 2024 look ahead piece that I haven’t already written a hundred times. Instead, my mind kept drifting towards 2025. The post-its I still have on the wall at the shore from this summer ask questions about what the world looks like if Trump wins, if Biden wins, if neither is the nominee, who wins elsewhere around the world, what the Supreme Court does, etc.