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  1. Automated Online Trading Championship 2012. 80K $ prize pool

    Registration - http://championship.mql5.com/2012/en Rules - http://championship.mql5.com/2012/en/rules Previous year results - http://championship.mql5.com/2011/en Previous year winners - http://championship.mql5.com/2011/en/news/141
  2. How Recruiters See Your Resume

    This is not a very quant related topic but looks like a good read for everyone: What Recruiters Look At During The 6 Seconds They Spend On Your Resume The full report (.pdf) is here.
  3. International Professional Ranking of Higher Education Institutions

    http://www.mines-paristech.fr/Actualites/PR/Ranking2011EN-Fortune2010.html
  4. Probability Puzzle

  5. Guess 3 natural numbers

    A question which is asked on interview in some software development companies. I guessed 3 natural numbers - x,y,z. You can ask me about two sums of these numbers with any coefficients - a,b,c. For example, you give me a1, b1 and c1 and I tell you the result of the exrepssion a1x+b1y+c1z. Give...
  6. What would Feynman do?

    There was a thread recently about the 25 weirdest interview questions. These questions remind me the post from Eric Lippert (C# compiler architect in Microsoft) who tried to imagine the following situation: So enjoy the great read. What would Feynman do ?
  7. Ten Tips for a (Slightly) Less Awful Resume

    It looks like that a lot of fresh graduates here work in development roles (because there are a lot of questions about software development) and to some degree tips for IT resumes should be helpful for them as well. I just found quite good article from Steve Yegge in my old bookmarks about...
  8. Disruptor - Concurrent programming framework

    There is some buzz around the new open source framework for concurrent programming - Disruptor. It is an essential part of infrastructure for LMAX exchange. Project's site at Google Code Techical paper for Disruptor Video presentation at QCon
  9. GPU-augmented OS kernel

    Nvidia and University of Utah released KGPU to the community - http://code.google.com/p/kgpu/ (source code is available) This lools like a next big thing that can really move GPU closer to end users because there is no need to rewrite the code - transition is quite seamless, just run the code...
  10. OOP is out of the CMU Computer Science Introductory Curriculum

    http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/03/oop-out-at-cmu IIRC, CMU was the first university where they introduced Master in Computational Finance with a good portion of C++. And now they are the first to drop OOP out of their curriculum for the 1st year CS students. Imo, it's quite interesting trend...
  11. [Humor] Bjarne Stroustrup: "I Did It For You All..."

    http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all
  12. Questions about SOP

    Some time ago I've started to work on my application package to prepare myself for MFE and 2 questions have rised. Perhaps someone has something to share. 1. Let say, I had personal problems in my last year in the university (disease of a family member) therefore my thesis was some kind of weak...
  13. GPU is comming to .NET

    InfoQ: Targeting the GPU with GPU.NET - new product has arived (it's still beta though) Neat tutorial on how to start: Tutorial: Your First GPU.NET Application | TidePowerd Implementation of BlackScholes is also availabe among few examples: CSharp.BlackScholes at master from tidepowerd's...
  14. GPU programming in pure Java from AMD

    AMD unveiled alpha version of their pure Java API for GPU programming. InfoQ: Aparapi: New, “Pure Java” API for Executing Arbitrary Compute Tasks on GPUs Unveiled at JavaOne Aparapi (home page)
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