Project Ideas for someone else (or future me)

Win a Stock Picking Contest

• Construct a portfolio from an available pool of securities to maximize the chances of winning a stock-picking contest.
• What if:
  • You can see your competitor’s portfolio (but they can’t see yours)?
  • There is trading during the duration of the contest?
  • Trading has transaction costs?
  • Your competitors can see your portfolio and trades? Is there a dominant strategy? If so, what is it?

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• Paraphrased Deleted Tweet

  Stock-picking contest with no options. I could see competitor’s picks. Most competitors picked FAANG stocks. I picked FNGU, a 3x leveraged FAANG ETN. If FAANG stocks go up, then I win. If it doesn’t, I lose, but it’s fake money.

Generate a String Which Matches a Regex

• Given a regex, can you:
  • Return a string which matches?
  • Return a string which matches, uniformly selecting from all possible strings? Some regexes match infinite strings, what constraints need to be added to make this practical?

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• Allow me to put in a regex it will always match? Generate in bulk? Via API?
• ChatGPT Transcript

Toronto anthem of 1886?

The Toronto anthem of 1886 was a real banger pic.twitter.com/zG8V9VNF4N

— Doug Saunders (@DougSaunders) August 11, 2023

• The screenshot looks like it was taken from Toronto “called Back,” from 1888 to 1847, and the Queen’s Jubilee on page 238
• It is a sonnet by John Imrie called Toronto from Songs and Miscellaneous Poems on pg 338. (I’m not sure if this is the original source)
• A live performance or the poem set to music would be cool