brentr

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March 18, 2008 (18y ago)
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  1. I'm starting my MSFE program this fall. Since C++ is heavily used on Wall Street, I have decided to take this summer to build a significant numerical library for financial related applications. Right now I am working…

  2. This morning I woke up and checked the temperature. It is currently -18 degrees. This is much too cold for me, and I am seriously considering crossing off Michigan and anything in New England for grad school. As a…

  3. I just finished all of my work for this semester. Now I am free to do whatever I want until about the middle of January. My plan is to learn more about Objective-C. Since a lot of us are college students, I was…

  4. I've been asked to give a lecture tomorrow night on the basics of Python and how to use Python to manipulate financial data. I was only asked this morning to prepare something. If you were asked to prepare something for…

  5. I am working on a financial software project. I have written code in Python to get all of the historical price data for each stock in the S&P 500. I have tested the code using an input file of five ticker symbols…

  6. I am working on a back-testing system as part of a research project for my senior thesis. Would anyone be interested in seeing the system put on the web for everyone to use? Do you think it could be built into a viable…

  7. Are there any NW Ohio hackers other than myself that frequent Hacker News? I am interested in pursuing financial related hacking projects and would like to meetup with someone in the area for a possible cofounder…

  8. I come from a finance background, so bear with me. I am currently taking a senior level mathematical probability/stats class. The professor of the class has informed me that the frontier of mathematical finance has…

  9. I've never worked on a project I couldn't fit into my brain all at once. Now that I have an idea for a large development project, which I hope to eventually take through the start-up process, I have started to research…

  10. I'm going back to college to pursue undergraduate degrees in mathematics and computer science. I have been thinking about ways to alleviate my costs as I am currently relying solely on student loans and help for my…

  11. XAMPP still has some issues when using it on a Mac. I found this website which describes an easy way to set up a test server right on your Mac.

  12. What other environments would you recommend? I have some experience with XAMPP.

  13. The media industry is finding it more and more difficult to control their own content as a result of the proliferation of P2P networks. At the same time, media consumers are finding it more and more difficult to obtain…