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    No Hiring New H-1B Visa Holders for the Next 15 Months

    That's what I thought. It simply that given that reducing the amount of immigrant workers is often popular with the voters base so it could have been a tactic. However as you say Andy I doubt the current government has much immediate say in the matter, especially if the number of visas was set...
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    No Hiring New H-1B Visa Holders for the Next 15 Months

    Could the fact that we're in an election year has anything to do with this arguably populist measure?
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    Need serious advice on whether to take MFE or MFIN or None

    Hi Maisatomai Here's my humble opinion, take it for what it worth. There's too much overlap between the CFA and a MS in finance, you want to diversify your portfolio of skills not learn the CAPM once again, dont waste your ressources. I think the very best thing for you to do given your...
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    I have a PhD, MS finance or MFE or MBA finance

    I agree with Tbeas and purplyboy, the CQF, the CFA, self-study and/or Quantnet/Baruch C++ cert will give you better bangs for your bucks than MBA or MFE. I would very rarely advise to do the CFA but for someone with absolutely no formal finance formation it could make sense, maybe.
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    Sending in the CFA Results to universities.

    it reminds me of an old joke: You enter a room with 100 students, how do you know which one passed the cfa level 1? He comes and tells you.
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    Computational Science Background for future MFE

    Hi IM, I think you underestimate the importance of studying in a big financial center. If you want to do niche sophisticated things like algo-trading/high freq and do not plan on doing a PhD, you'll greatly benefit from doing your masters degree in NYC or London. You have a good background and...
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    Veit Elser’s Formidable 14

    Awesome blog Pratik! I'll check it out in more depth during xmas break
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    New Courses being offered by Stanford in Jan,2012

    I'm doing their Intro to Databases class this semester and I think they have a great product. The delivery software and structure is much better than MIT opencourseware. I'm very thankful for them to make this available for free online.
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    The young and the lazy

    Interesting stuff. Being myself in my early twenties I feel there's some truth to it, we're overstimulated with an attention spans shorter than a high-frequency prop shop's latency. This said, as much as my father is convinced my generation is filled with self-entitled sloths, I'm under the...
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    Quant Field -> Worthwhile?

    Yes 'their's upward mobility, especially for detail-oriented individuals. The market is flooded by young bright graduates while most finance firms are shrinking, and apparently this shift is structural and here to stay. Do a lot of due diligence before picking this field of work.
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    Wow! A lot of new laptops have come out!

    Yeah and given that Google announced this morning they're shutting down much-hyped Google Waves and Google Gears, and some tech blogs already announcing the dead of Google+, it seems there's downside potential being an early adopter of the Chromebook.
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    Wow! A lot of new laptops have come out!

    I'm curious about the new chromebook (http://www.google.com/chromebook/). It might not answer the programming needs of all the geeks here (including myself) but with more and more apps online (codepad.org, docs.latexlab.org) I wouldn't be surprised personal computing to head this way.
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    Probability Puzzle

    It cannot be B, because you have 1/4=25% chance to pick B so 50% cannot be the answer. Cannot be A or D neither, because there's a 50% chance of picking them, hence 25% would be wrong. Thus, as Tsotne put it, there's no good answer.
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    crowing crows

    % corroborated in matlab clear; clc; n=100000; POS=sort(rand(20,n)); DIST=[repmat(realmax,2,n); POS(2:end,:)-POS(1:end-1,:); repmat(realmax,2,n)]; notCrowedAt=(DIST(1:end-3,:)<=DIST(2:end-2,:))&(DIST(3:end-1,:)>=DIST(4:end,:)); mean(sum(notCrowedAt)) % result ~ 5
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    RBC Capital Market Graduate Program

    The interviews were over and the candidates were selected in late september/early october.
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