So far there's a few forums for these new online classes, like the AIqus site[0], Udacity forums for CS 101[1] and CS 373[2], and a lot of IRC channels, the main hubs being at #free-class, #udacity, and #mitx on irc.freenode.net[3].
There's individual channels for each course as well, for Coursera courses they follow the pattern of the class url preceded by an octothorpe, so for the Design and Analysis of Algorithms I class at http://algo-class.org for example, the IRC channel for it is #algo-class. For the Udacity courses, they follow the pattern of ##udacity-<course number>, so for example ##udacity-cs101 and ##udacity-cs373
Can anyone qualified/familiar with the situation comment on what the probable effect the (likely) QE3 in June will have on the Chinese housing market and consumer buying appetite?
Awesome, thanks for the great response. Curious if you're familiar with the common trend in the last half-decade~decade or so of Masters in Financial Engineering degree programs popping up.
Would you say spending the 150K+ and years needed to do well on the 7City exam to work as an "official quant" at famous investment banks is reasonable? There seems to be little hiring/demand for quants coming out of these programs, despite the as-of-now still high admission and graduation rates.
If the job description is as variable as you say it is, would it not make more sense to work on becoming a trader at a number of different banks, firms, and prop shops and not waste all the time and money on getting an MFE? It was popular pre-housing bubble and apparently job placement for graduates was high, yet I'm not sure this is the case is now. Could you comment on this, seeing as you're working there already?
Ah, I see. I guess I'm just trying to flesh out the difference between all the terms I hear thrown around all the time that seem to overlap; day-trader, quant, HFT partner, etc. I see it's not as clear-cut as I thought. Thanks.
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Is it just quant talk though? Isn't there enough of that on NP, Wilmott, and QuantNet?
Or am I silly in assuming quants on those sites work mostly for i-banks, hedge funds, and more established players?
Do partners in HFT firms function on the same level, as say the guy structuring CDOs at Bear Stearns?
I thought there was a difference, but this is another reason for the wide questions; the nature of what HFTs do is a little vague and not clear from Google searches.
Everyone here on HN always seems to say the same thing: the way math is being taught in most schools sucks, we need to change it. Math is glorious, it's the kicks, etc.
I'm curious why everyone is so enamored with mathematics here though; I've tried to understand what is so captivating about the subject but have failed to do so for years.
I've never gotten past trigonometry and algebra myself, and this idea of Calculus being more than the tedious integration work that textbooks I tried to self teach from said it was is intriguing.
Enlighten me, how is mathematics not just a bunch of rules and methods to solve problems within constraints, and that some professional practitioners are forced to prove...
How many of you programmers and software engineers here even interact with the Calculus you learned in high school/college on a day-to-day basis in your apps/software projects?
Sorry, I just don't do any apps that touch the internet...just some programming for fun on the side.
The only thing that I've written that could be applied to this is our POS system at the restaurant I work at as a dishwasher and cleaner for. It's in Django though, and the Django project takes care of most issues with that...not that they're really priority #1 security-wise...
There's individual channels for each course as well, for Coursera courses they follow the pattern of the class url preceded by an octothorpe, so for the Design and Analysis of Algorithms I class at http://algo-class.org for example, the IRC channel for it is #algo-class. For the Udacity courses, they follow the pattern of ##udacity-<course number>, so for example ##udacity-cs101 and ##udacity-cs373
[0] http://www.aiqus.com/
[1] http://www.udacity-forums.com/cs101/
[2] http://www.udacity-forums.com/cs373/
[3] http://webchat.freenode.net