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I have friends paying half of their salaries on student loans, even that it takes around 3 years to pay off. And in Singapore the debt is much more modest compare with what I've seen here.

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So? It does not stop him from being an ass.

What's your list of all-time greats? I'm looking for something to read.

the distribution is uniform, so you don't even need to do integration, just simple division/multiplication is enough

So? that post is to counter your point that majority of people that use Mac are artist type, know junk about computer, attracted to Mac and endure it 'complete trash' and all 'they care that it's shiny and makes them look cool.'

Guess what? Google banned Window in its company's computers and asked their staffs to use OSX or Linux instead And the majority of computers used in Facebook office are Macbook pro (I got a friend who worked there told me this)

What's your point? We always have a choice to use or not to use Apple.

MRoss, Alexei Smirnov: you really passionate about hating Apple, don't you? why bother spending so much energy hating something?

MRoss: why did you hate Apple?

donny: what did you study for your undergrad?

Hi Andy, could you change my name to Huan Dao? Thanks

get a rollerblade or skateboard

what is the reason behind the hostile sentiment toward Apple? Apple are not perfect, but they do make pretty good products, why do people come to hate them?

Someone PM me the pdf, I'd like to post the file here, hope he does not mind :)

Work on your C++, review some maths: P.D.E, Linear Algebra, Probability Theory...

I found this link on Willmot's forum, I try to download but unfortunately the site is in Chinese, would someone help me download the file and upload it somewhere else? Thanks!

Question: how to regconize real eastate bubble? :)

Does your local university have a library, you could try apply for a membership and borrow books from there, I don't have to spend a cent to read those books from the Master Reading List.

Vol I is much more easier than Vol II, if you studying full time, I think one week is enough.

I suggest you can read Vol I first, then it's a lot easier for you to digest Vol II

Does anyone know any decent French MFE taught in English?

My defense is that during that time I was young and juvenile at best, now I don't make my decision base on how cool things are, plus joing to this forum give me much more information and having much more time to prepare for it, I believe that I'd not make a wrong choice again.

Thank everyone for your responses, I was naive at that time when thinking that it's cool to work in semiconductor, but now I see it's a new kind of commodity, it's like a race to the bottom, every firm is thriving for the lowest price, and it's not helping either when we have to compete with...

@rajanS: Of course I'll get a new job before quitting this current job, and speaking of recommendation letter, I'm planning to apply for job at some research institutes, I believe that recommendation letters from researchers with Ph.D is better than others.

Let me explain my situation first, I graduated in 2010 with an EE major, and now working for a semiconductor manufacturing company, because I took a scholarship from the company during my junior year in college, so now I have a 2 years bond with the company, so roughly I have to work for them...

@achilles: prof Dan's book doesn't cover stochastic calculus, but it cover the application through Black Scholes equation. For Stochastic calculus you can take a look at Shreve's Stochastic Calculus for Finance II

@Tsotne: thanks, will look into it :)

@Tsotne: which articles? can you share with us?

again, top score in VBA modeling class and high school math say little about your quantitative skill, you may try to enroll in math and programming classes at your local college, get top score and apply for MFE. And one more thing, you expected to be hired as a trader straight out of college...

@Locus: have you thought about doing MBA? with zero math and programming background, how can you be sure that you're suitable for this line of work.

you need to perform change of variable of the underlying stock price to Brownian motion W(t), then from W(t) to standard normal variable Z(0,1), W(t) ~ sqrt(t)Z(0,1)

You need to stop asking too vague questions, beauty in the eyes of the beholder ;).

This is 2 bed room right?

@bigbadwolf : the grading scheme is following a bell curve system, so it's different from course to course, and students do not allow to know about the bell curve at all, for this calculus course here, my guess is that 90% for an A is reasonable, 70%-80% should be B. Most of my friends here...

wondering what did I said :rolleyes:

It seems like you did see the pdf file there, there's line integral, surface integral, Stoke's theorem, etc...

Did you notice that I only post half of the exam here? see the pdf file, there's another . I just say that's a bit too long.

I'm just curious how do a final exam (math, cs paper) in a good state school in US like? I'm from Singapore, and I always feel that our papers create too much stress, each paper is usually 2 hours long, and you have to literally think and write at a lightning speed. For example, this is an 2...

Starcraft 2, and guitar

@Devdeep: I do know about Amazon, but now I could read these books for free, why would I spend the money? I have kept Shreve and Wilmott books for 2 months plus now. And I'm not in the US, so the price the local bookstore charged me is not unexpected.

I asked for the prices of some books in a local bookstore, it's not very pleasant, about $300 for Paul Wilmott on QF, and $200 for Shreve's book. Fortunately, I'm able to borrow them in my university's library, they have all of the books in the list.

For me, I always like physics since high school, participated in several regional physics competition for high school, got numerous prizes, participated in national competition twice, but didn't win ( the winners usually go on and get prizes in IPO ;)) . Major in physics during my first year at...

Do what you love *cough cough*, all of these paths that you point out here require alot of hard work and sacrifice, I you choose them just because of the money, you'll go nowhere and probably end up hating your job.

@roni: are you going to Columbia?

Hi Andy, inside my inbox I can only see the name of the person who started the conversation, and the last one reply, so sometimes it's difficult to see which person I sent message to without having to click each one individually. So it's nice to have the name of the participant on the...

@mcgraber: define "bad mouthing"? So since when we can only discuss things that we can do something about? If a football team played badly, then I have all of my right to criticize them, do I?

The article was posted on 1st of April, don't know whether it's true or not.

is it cool that we need less math to solve this question? :)

no it's not symmetric, if the coin is tail, the robot will flip the coin, and put back (head or tail). bob's answer seems is correct, but I got a more simple solution: let P(H)=A P(T)=1-A This is after a long time so P(H) and P(T) must be stable, that means if the robot continue to...

Suppose you throw a large number of coins to the floor, assume that these coins are fair, and don't overlap each other. A robot move randomly in the floor, and pick up coins, if it sees head, it flips the coins to tail and put it back to the original position. If it sees tail, it flips the coin...

do you mind share your profile with me? I'm interested in the program also, although I know it's very competitive.

@Tsotne: just curious, why would you go straight to MBA after undergraduate and then Ph.D after that?

Hi ketki, which school are you currently doing your MSF in? and for the scholarship, how much does it cover?

Can you be more clear by what do you mean "you're not conditioning on the proper information" ?

So the way I see it is: In the case when I see the child, I don't know whether the child is a younger or older kid, so I have 50% chance of the child being the older and 50% chance of the child being the younger, for each of these cases, the chance for the other child is boy/girl is 50/50. So I...

Put it this way, person A tossed one coin, person B tossed one coin. B showed you the coin, the coin is tail (T) for example, so how in the world the coin tossed by person A is affected by the result showed by B?

So now if I toss two coins, I reveal one coin to you, the coin is head for example, so the probability of the other coin is also head is 1/3. This doesn't make sense to me, given that the two coins is independent and H/T chance is 50:50.

If I rephrase the question as: "You met your friend as a shop, he was with one of his child, you known that he had 2 children, what's the probability that the other child is a boy?" Given the same assumptions as in the first post, what's the probability that the other child is a boy?

@AlexandreH P(child1=boy) should be 3/4 because the question did not specify whether the boy is older or younger child. However, with P(child1=boy)=3/4 your answer is not correct either. @AN 1/3 is wrong :)

Question: You met a high school friend in a shop, he told you that he had two children and at least one boy. What is the probability that the other child is a boy. Assumption: 1. Boys to girls ratio is 50:50 2. The sex of each child is independent of the sex of the other.

So if I have an electrical engineering degree with physics minor ( all A for physics modules), will it help me much in my application?

I'm an electrical engineering graduate from NUS (Singapore) with minor in physics, my CAP is 4.18/5. I took couple of math couses but not much: 1 linear algebra, 1 calculus, 1 engineering math course (mostly statistics and probability), and a signal processing all with As. For my physics...