Recent content by DominiConnor

If you are offered more than one date for an interview always pick the soonest A thing many candidates get wrong is that they fail to show they are keen for this job. Simply showing this increases your chances noticeably and given that as a candidate you get to make relatively few of the...

The game theory of UK admissions can be daunting, especially with the DEI policies of some UK unis. First up you should not use up one of your slots on somewhere you don't want to go, sounds obvious put that way but many do. I must with all due respect ask why the fuck you want to be a Quant ...

Bloomberg do some very good talks on quant stuff, well worth attending or viewing, but preferably in person. Remember one of myiron rules of getting a quant job is that you need to stand out by having something to offer that your competitors do not. Any course gives you the same knowledge as...

Yes we learn from biological systems the convergence you cite. Wildly different organisms evolve highly similar ways of doing things. It's an interesting conflict of intuitions. The complexity of even small programmes makes one expect there to be very many different of about the same...

It's a competitive market, now more than ever and you need to stick out more. That means when you pitch yourself at interview being able to talk about things beyond what is on the curriculum that every other bright yung thing has learned. Game theory of price formation always plays well when...

It's not even a whole CV. My daughter mentioned that fellow student is President of the university gaming society. And is putting it in their resume. Yes, the single most fuckwitted thing ever to be said by someone trying to find a job in a choppy labour market. Understand and burn into your...

As you can imagine I have a pretty good spam filter and the majority of easily spotted crap contains Cyrillic and Chinese characters, so it often gets binned. If you're sending a resume to me or anoyne else you think might help get you a job, I would advise you only to use western (ie ASCII)...

Dullu, which country do you have to go back to, is it Brazil ? I suspect something is wrong with your CV, the outline of your experience implies that although the market at entry level is still weak, you ought to have got some interviews.

I agree that for MC development and learning 4 cores is adequate, but someone wanting to go the whole way might want to look at GPU computing. There is of course Amdahl's law, so don't ever imagine that 8 cores will go 8x as fast, though it can be instructive to deal with the extra chance of...

I think there should be a section on "Should I choose this line of work ?" I good % of the threads on QN and Wilmott.com are around that theme, so people clearly want help and given the cost and importance of the decision they are wise to seek advise. I volunteer to write that part. The...

The CQF is much more about the maths of markets than the CFA, so it might match your existing skills better. I hadn't realised you were in London, why don't you come along to an open evening, that wought to answer a lot of questions ?

As you may know Clatty, I have an interest in the CQF... What is your background in terms of education ?

Programming in what ?

I agree with those who say do economics, the term "Quant" gets overloaded quite a bit and I think you'd find it very hard to get in to what most people here call quant work from where you are now. You could do the certificate in mathematical methods as part of the CQF, it would be very hard...

I suppose it's a bit late now, but you made the right choice.