the situation you are proposing is not similar to a programmer joining a mayor firm for a fixed salary, it is more like joining a startup, where...
about the GS programmer, read his side of the story too... http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman-sachs-programmer
you'll learn a lot from your developer, and he would learn a lot from you. the best way to minimize the risk of him running off is if you both...
find the middle ground. :) on a) you don't have to learn enough to code your own version of the linux kernel... just enough so that when you go to...
yeah, sometimes "the trading part" of the work feels like the horizon... it's always in the todo list after getting all these other things...
1) depends a lot on your needs. If I had to pic a general language, I would go with Python since it is a great all rounder, good for doing many...
NN's find patterns (regularities) in the data, and try to use those patterns to predict a label (outcome). these patterns don't have to be...
Ok. I see what you're saying. although the weather is probably not the best example for your point, since it is a complex non linear system that...
i tend to agree with you, that high level languages like Python are better to learn the ropes without having to worry too much about memory...
MT's language is based on C. Check out this Harvard course, it teaches C and is aimed at people completely new to programming....
I've used the clustering algos from scikit learn and pycluster, they work ok.
I generated a numeric name for each cluster, and set the initial centroids manually to prevent variations in the cluster names. On these pics I...
Can you elaborate on the differences between probabilities and forecasts?
Im using C++ to parse files that have ~15 million rows of L1, L2, TOS data got about 200 files (one per day)... Im using C++ since I want them to...
I did some work in this direction last year. Worked with several ideas like calculating the high, low, close as a function of the open in order...
You use it as a library and integrate it into your source code. :) this page has a good overview of how fix8 works....
I had a bad experience with Pascal and Cobol around 2000, which lead me to avoid any code writing for over a decade... Around 2005 I learned to...
Computational Investming Pt1 is a really fun hands-on, project based class. I highly recommend it.
If you have the opportunity to learn matlab today, then learn it. Once you are done with this class, you can tackle Python, there's plenty of...
what do you mean?
Separate names with a comma.