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  1. Back to India?

    Those two sentences mean very different things.:wall I hope that when you design a model, you dont mean something and model something else entirely different.:-k
  2. Back to India?

    D.E Shaw have several branches in India. I refuse to believe that D.E Shaw does not do quantitative work.:D:D:D http://www.deshawindia.com/FinancialResearchandOperations.html
  3. DISCUSSION on second rated MFE programs

    Yes. And the point I am making is that just as you would not get the faculty at your local MBA school to teach you roman history or phrenology, Comp Sci department are not the partners to turn to for C++ tutoring. For your C++ tutoring needs, you should contact people like Dominic, Herb Sutter...
  4. DISCUSSION on second rated MFE programs

    Moving from C++ to Java is not trivial. However, it is a nonevent compared to porting from C++ to Ocaml, Haskell or Erlang. You obviously have not programmed in a logic or a functional language. Moving code to one of them is an order of magnitude harder than moving code from one imperative...
  5. Career as a foreigner

    Depends on the metric you use. By options and derivatives, NY is Number 1 and London is Number 2 By shares volume and IPOs, London is Number 1 and NY is number 2. A lot of the Russian, Chinese, European and Indian money is now pouring into London.
  6. DISCUSSION on second rated MFE programs

    When I did some comp sci in the eighties ( part time for a light hearted break from medicine ), we used Miranda ( FP of the day in those dark days ), Modula -2 , Occam, Ada and C++. However, the better comp sci schools quite rightly abandoned C++ decades ago. The students generally use a...
  7. Difference between MFin & Financial Engineering

    Bharat se hu. Videsh me rahta hu.;) I am a DBD Desi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  8. DISCUSSION on second rated MFE programs

    That is a serious misunderstanding of Oxford's admissions process. Oxford's admission tutors are extremely interested in marks. ECs, leadership and personal qualities are completely irrelevant to the process ( unless your EC is that you were on the International Maths Olympiad team ). As the...
  9. Whats the difference between Octave and Maxima?

    In simplistic terms, Octave is for numerical computing and Maxima is for symbolic mathematics. You need Octave. In slightly less simplistic terms: Matlab is a superb numerical computing environment. Matlab has been extended with various Toolboxes to do symbolic mathematics and many other...
  10. MS VS IDE mysteries

    VI VI VI = 666 ie: the number of the beast.;) Use Emacs instead. :prayer:
  11. MFE related programs outside US

    There are excellent programs at Oxford University, Cambridge University, the London School of Economics and the London Business school. They are not cheap and are around 20,000 pounds a year.
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