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Awesome feedback guys. Compound exercises it is. Proper form and perfect technique, got it. I'll start after marathon season ends. Actually had to google the overhead press and military press; they seem to be the same (I called them "raise the roofs" until now). Must get familiar with the gym...

Interesting thread. I work in model validation and therefore, have loads of free time. Weight lifting / body-building is definitely on my list of hobbies to pursue next, but the training is quite different than what I'm used to. Currently, my thing is running marathons, kung-fu, and hiking...

Finally, I non quanty thread. A tea drinker here (quit coffee last year). Kung-fu (7 years) and running/jogging all over NYC.

I recommend Spartacus. I started Game of Thrones simply because the Spartacus season was over.

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3) decided to take a break from my usual quant readings.

then learn them all.

I agree, especially with #3, thanks for pointing that out Daniel.

Try A = LU decomp first (if applicable, even go for Cholesky if possible). Then, (if L and U are invertable), inv(A) = inv(LU) = inv(U) * inv(L), and inverting L and U are quick. Well, this works for me, 0.13 sec for 100x100, 18 sec for 500x500, 260 sec for 1000x1000, and my laptop is a dinosaur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss–Laguerre_quadrature

RK4 for 1st order ODEs

Must be a lot of people on a 2 hour line. You obviously do not cut off the big tough guy but the one who you believe will not do a thing about it, also known as a little beyotch. Cutting someone on a line that big would be insulting, basically saying that "you can't stop me", so being passive is...

I should've listened to my wife and watched Easy-A or The Town...

You're not alone Andy. If you liked that freestyle 80's era then you'll like the CDO stuff, maybe...

Big talk. I dare the author to come to my office and try to take my job.

Unless of course you find yourself a quant wife. Try to check out if there is the possibility to log into your work PC remotely. Very convenient for those with families when things come up, and yet you can still be productive.

If someone needs that much annually to survive, then their survival skills must be really bad or they have a big hole in their pocket.

I know you weren't looking for formal proofs, who would. I figured you were referring to Christianity anyway. Try the Quran instead.

Religion isn't mathematics (although I may be wrong on that one). I know what point you are making but some things just can't be proven or reasoned because of our conceptual limitations, but yet people try. Perhaps you've been talking to people who haven't given much thought to their beliefs and...

The credit risk management area seems to have a thing for SAS. SAS is comparable to R and Matlab, mostly useful for heavy data processing. If you are already familiar with Matlab and R, or even C++, then I wouldnt invest too much time in learing SAS (I picked it up on the job in a week). Just...

Wow, all I have to say is Thriller and Moonwalk. Not many Americans solve PDEs for fun.

Put some minorities in the rich neighborhoods and some Jews/Asians in the ghetto. After a few years in Junior High and High School, I would expect that this has nothing to do with IQ.

Having attended and graduated from this type of high school, I can say high school physics was a course for seniors and I would say the highest drop out rates were the students who didn't get through freshman or sophmore year. I have to sadly agree that it was not easy to learn much, however, 4...

Indeed we are MFEs, not English majors, ya nam sayin (do you know what I am saying). Slang aint so bad, especially if you're boss speaks that way, as long as you both understand each other. Then again, I dont know anyone who writes the way they speak. But anyway, thank goodness for spell check...

Hey, you never know. For one thing, if they were employed, then they wouldn't rely on food stamps because of the many opportunities that would be available. They could then afford college, pursue a degree, gain quantitative skill sets, and obtain a better future just like any other H1B...

Take a million dogs at random and you will find half a dozen decent dogs. But nevertheless, it is indeed remarkable. Ants impress me the most, if only humans were a fraction as efficient.

Keep in mind that the CCNY CompEng major is a merge between CompSci and EE. Some required EE courses may not be applicable to non-EE jobs such as Analog Circuits, ElectroMag, SemiConductor Phy, etc. But these will strengthen your problem solving and applied math skills nevertheless. Afterwards...

I just thought I'd post my Functor class for any C# converts. Delegates are another way to accomplish this but that can wait for another post. You can just stick in more f(x) into the else-if chain and label the f(x) with an int or a enum string if you choose. The del and del2 member functions...

I grew up here(NY) and my English isnt perfect. For me, "Good English" was not so important, as long as I was understood and the other person understood me (keeping up with all the High School slang was fun at the time but became useless quickly). Currently, almost everybody I work with has an...

OLS should do the trick Linear regression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, I access the Oracle DB in Unix using Putty. The SAS code has some preliminary commands to get access the datasets, (its typically a libname statement with pswd and usrname). If there is too much traffic on the system then I just export the datasets that I need to my PC using the WinSCP tool.

SAS is deeper than just a programming language, the documentation for the usages and functionalities are endless. At work, we occasionally use SAS/IML (Interactive Matrix Language). If you want a identity matrix or zero matrix, than its I(n) and j(n,n,0). There are some guys here 10 years and...

MUTING! congratulations, happy bday.

Alain! Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

www.abebooks.com - Sometimes the S/H costs more than the textbook.

dodgeball, freeze tag, dizzy bat, redlight/greenlight123...

I use SAS at work and had to start programming immediately. I was told to refer to http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp. Eventhough there is much documentation (I rushed it and still took me more than a week), it all comes down to a few "procs" and macro programming, mainly in...

I got 2.5 by: fist rearranging the equation --> (x^2 + 5x)^.5 - x = ((x+2.5)^2 - 6.25)^.5 - x then I thought as x-> infinity, the 6.25 becomes negligible, therefore the equation becomes ((x+2.5)^2)^.5 - x = x+2.5 - x = 2.5 I am a newbie here, I'm sure there is a more elegant method, unless of...

I will give these brain teasers another shot, I say 2.5 after a bit of manipulation.

The few, The elite, The quants - Quantnet.

I say 11. 11 has .1944 chance whereas 12 has .1666 chance. am I right?

So this is what I have to look forward to in 2 months, and my life for 2 years. :smt030 What have I done? But thats ok, no pain no gain. Just like a kungfu student who trains on a mountain for 2 years with an abusive master, that student comes off the mountain a very deadly warrior (if...

Greetings, I am Jonathan and I have just recieved notice that I am accepted to the MFE program :banana: . This is a great accomplishment for a puertorican from the Bx and I still do not believe it yet. I hope I can fit in well with the quant team (so I should get more involved with quantnet to...

An intro Whats up everyone, I'm Jon. I recieved a M.S. in Electrical Engineering in January and have been job searching until recently. Eventhough I am employed as an electrical engineer, business applications are more for me. A few months ago, I didnt even know what a stock and bond was and...