Recent content by Dave Haan

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425 http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/prof-finds-a-way-to-flip-the-test-245597.aspx

Back in the news this past week, after a grad student debunked in part thru spreadsheet error http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/2013/04/19/how-much-of-reinhartrogoff-has-survived/

James Kwak catches up with the Whale http://baselinescenario.com/2013/02/09/the-importance-of-excel/ but see also the follow-on discussion at HackerNews http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198187

What about the ones who are mistresses? I can hear the escort servicer now: "I'm sorry, sir, I thought you said you wanted a little quant ... I distinctly remember you requesting modeling experience."

I got by on B.S. and on-the-job self-training but those were different times (CFA was new, I didn't bother). But you're positioned to benefit both from work experience (evolving with it) and from outside study; CFA rec was specific to your ASA endeavor. MS in engineering or suchlike (with big...

Given your handle, I suspect we have our B.S. Math from the same institution. (Mine was long ago, but along with homegrown wizardly APL it cleared a path for me into quant, albeit pre-MFE.) Given your circumstances & background, I'd suggest you might do well to recalibrate your path: rather...

yes well many years since for me (I worked in k version 1) but kdb/q is ideal as an investigative tool and for rapid deployment from prototype, both of which will hold in good stead beyond a technology role (in my case transition out to internal risk consulting); these are different times but...

GS has some details too: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-18/greg-smith-quit-goldman-after-unrealistic-pitch-for-1m.html

Felix hisself: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/10/06/the-problem-with-high-frequency-trading/

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/10/the-new-nonsense-leaving-finance/

http://www.hedgeco.net/news/09/2012/college-students-launch-hedge-fund.html just sayin

I too found the article irrelevant and uninteresting. Not so the questions Andy raises. Yes, C++ or the like not so much Java esp not VBA despite http://mathbabe.org/2012/09/18/two-rants-about-hiring-a-data-scientist/#comment-10756 which of course brings up SQL ... and NoSQL...

Aaron Brown reviews here I haven't read, myself, but have long followed the author's blog, here (even when it was Mahalanobis way back when) (His career is something of a cautionary tale as well, but that's for another time)

Quaint. (And we know that etymology, eh? :rolleyes:) But then the essay kinda meanders as much as the term ...

shorter Graeber: Evil: the root of all money. http://jacobinmag.com/2012/08/debt-the-first-500-pages/ via http://crookedtimber.org/2012/08/29/debt-the-first-five-hundred-pages/