How did you know about Quantnet

[Paul Mithouard]

Complete hazard ! i am a lucky man.. Hope to be just as lucky in the upcoming hours and days ;p

 

[Andy Nguyen]

There ought to be more people willing to answer this completely trivial question.

 

[Tom Maloney]

Browser cache has all the answers: I googled "math finance nyu columbia"; although that may be the last search query I used to get over here among others...

 

[Brad Warren]

I just stumbled on it using Google. I think I was searching "quantitative finance" or "quant masters programs."

 

[pandyajwalin]

Quantnet was the first thing that came up when I googled- Ranking of Financial Engineering programs.

 

[Michelle]

Quantnet was the first thing that came up when I googled- Ranking of Financial Engineering programs.

Still true 12 years later

 

[Michelle]

Would really love to hear from the new members of how they discovered QuantNet.

 

[OoozeDonatin]

baruch mfe

 

[MikeLawrence]

I found it through the rankings. Wanted rankings, found them. Weeks later realized there was more. Wouldn't have taken that long but I've never been an online forum user.

 

[Lukee]

I heard about it through wallstreet oasis

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Wouldn't have taken that long but I've never been an online forum user.

Forum are for old geezers like me
I am curious where the youngsters hang out these days?

 

[Lukee]

Forum are for old geezers like me
I am curious where the youngsters hang out these days?

There aren't many youngsters online that are interested in quantitative finance, the ones that do exist generally use Discord and some are also on Reddit.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

I heard about it through wallstreet oasis

WSO Patrick and I go way back to the ealier days of both of our sites. We still keep in touch these days. Glad that you found your way here and I appreciate you being with us.

 

[MikeLawrence]

Forum are for old geezers like me
I am curious where the youngsters hang out these days?

There probably is a lot of discord use. It's mostly people you already know that you would talk to about this stuff. I had never been on WSO or Wilmott until I saw them mentioned on here. There doesn't appear to be much of a quant presence on WSO, and the format was strange to me.

I found quant fin. by following a book trail that seemed interesting; by finding a good book and then researching names that author had mentioned. Until I found this site I had read more authors who qualified as quants than I knew actual people who even knew what a quant was (5 authors, 2 people).

The trail looked like (Chris Voss -> Daniel Khanman -> Taleb -> Mandelbrot
----------------------------------------------------------------------> Spitnagel -> Clauswitz
----------------------------------------------------------------------> Derman
----------------------------------------------------------------------> Ayache
Arrows are meant to show branches from Taleb. I tried using spaces but when I hit post the formatting lined them all up on the left.

 

[CharlieJ]

There probably is a lot of discord use. It's mostly people you already know that you would talk to about this stuff. I had never been on WSO or Wilmott until I saw them mentioned on here. There doesn't appear to be much of a quant presence on WSO, and the format was strange to me.

I found quant fin. by following a book trail that seemed interesting; by finding a good book and then researching names that author had mentioned. Until I found this site I had read more authors who qualified as quants than I knew actual people who even knew what a quant was (5 authors, 2 people).

The trail looked like (Chris Voss -> Daniel Khanman -> Taleb -> Mandelbrot
----------------------------------------------------------------------> Spitnagel -> Clauswitz
----------------------------------------------------------------------> Derman
----------------------------------------------------------------------> Ayache
Arrows are meant to show branches from Taleb. I tried using spaces but when I hit post the formatting lined them all up on the left.

Are there specific discord channels?

 

[MikeLawrence]

Are there specific discord channels?

Quantnet users have created a discord to study. Not much is going on right now. We have yet to establish a good plan. Most of us are still full time students. Quasar and I are probably going to end up going through some of Neftci's math fin. book. But I'm going to have to switch over to Abott's understanding analysis and the C++ course when summer hits (to prep for courses I want to take while studying abroad). So I'm not sure I'm of much use at the moment.

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[supersplitter]

Dimitri Bianco YouTube channel

 

[Yifan Wu]

Would really love to hear from the new members of how they discovered QuantNet.

Thanks for reviving the thread! I discovered QuantNet in February 2022. I was talking to two friends, both with degrees from top MFE programs, about quitting my Math PhD program and joining a MFE program instead. They suggested me looking at QuantNet's ranking at that time.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Thanks for reviving the thread! I discovered QuantNet in February 2022. I was talking to two friends, both with degrees from top MFE programs, about quitting my Math PhD program and joining a MFE program instead. They suggested me looking at QuantNet's ranking at that time.

Funny enough, I was in my second year Math PhD when I learned about MFE degree by chance. QuantNet did not exist then. The rest is history as they say.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

I wonder if we could trains ChatGPT's LTM to get it to direct all quant queries to QUANTNET.