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Apologies if this topic has been beaten to death; I've looked through some of the previous posts on similar topics and I just wanted to get some more opinions with regards to peoples' general opinions on quantitative finance as a career, especially valuable would be the views of people working...

Yeah, I definitely think the application specific hardware is an interesting (and inevitable) development in a place where performance is so critical, definitely an interesting area of work. This article made it seem like logic gates were somehow cutting edge technology.

Wow, that article is dripping with technological illiteracy. Computers are arrays of logic gates, they're the fundamental building blocks. I'm guessing they're trying to talk about the use of FPGAs or ASICs in high-frequency trading but they should really pass their articles by someone with a...

Yeah I agree, the Shiller lectures are interesting and entertaining, I like his teaching style. I think there are videos of the lectures too, I watched a couple, they might not be available on iTunes U though.

Arguably men also = problems because there are two roots: +women = problems and -women = problems -women = men

Hey All, I just finished my second year pursuing double degrees in Math and EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at Berkeley. I'm interested finance and planning to apply to masters programs in a year or so.

As a student at Berkeley I can vouch for the fact that webcasts are intended more for students taking the course than the 'open course' concept. MIT's OCW is pretty awesome, Yale has something similar; they don't have nearly as many courses as MIT's but there are some interesting ones, like a...