Recent content by ramnik

Here I think you are slightly off mate. I doubt you got through IIT without studying, or just rote learning before the exam. If it were that easy, darn I (Alongwith every IITian I know) missed the plot! Furthermore, statistically IITians have done reasonably well, in technical or academia, and...

Bidbadwolf, I must confess that the article is not particularly well written as it doesn't do justice to a topic as diverse as Indian education system (Andy did point this out). However there is no denying that the article is 'narrowly' true, and I see no reason for this surge of...

Look around the forum, and Andy's footer on the Master reading list. Furthermore, the list of courses in any decent program should help you figure it out.

Just found this diagram which gives a clear idea of the cost of the recent financial crisis! Interesting!

Germany toy with the English! Did JPM see this coming? A beautiful display of counter-attacking football by the young German side.

I think that a 550 in GRE verbal is very decent and isn't a reason as to why you weren't accepted (Not much weightage is given to Verbal scores I presume). You haven't mentioned your mathematical and computational background which are critical to an MFE. The fact that you don't have relevant...

Hey has anyone submitted their work to arXiv q-fin.TR (Trading and Market Microstructure) lately. I am trying to submit a paper myself, but am not endorsed for the archive. Although stated on the website that endorsements were effective since 2004, I don't recall needing them for any of my...

Wow thats obnoxious! Anyways, I fear a population of stupid men a lot more than intelligent folks, since they can be swayed by the media, politicians easily to yield unhappy consequences for you, the intelligentsia. Just the fact that you continue to thrive is proof enough that Americans are...

Been residing my entire life in India (23 odd years in various parts of North India) and I can safely say that this is very different from my experience. India has over 350 million cell phone users (And I remember reading that this number increases by the population of Australia every month)...

I do know that some (most?) schools (NYU, Baruch, CMU, Chicago, ETH, MIT, Oxbridge, EPFL (\ldots)) have their deadlines in Jan-Feb, by which time your GRE Subject scores would be computed. You should receive your scores from ETS by December first week latest (A few days after the Princeton...

There are about 6 guys on GD who have heard from NYU yesterday. I think you wouldn't have to wait much longer now.

I've used knitro for some of my projects. You could download the free student/academic version from: Artelys Optimization and modeling solutions

Check the Application Tracker. It seems a lot of people await Columbia results (and while you are there, add your own case, if not already done so).

Well the list lacks courses on Optimization, both mathematical(read convex analysis) and numeric. I loved these courses, though primarily due to the professor.

Well you could get lots of GA codes + useful material on the following sites: Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory and Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory I am a part of the Kanpur lab and would be happy to help if you have any problems with GA.