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by snufkin
April 21st, 2017, 5:03 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: AAD in practice
Replies: 8
Views: 1554

Re: AAD in practice

by snufkin
April 21st, 2017, 4:42 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: AAD in practice
Replies: 8
Views: 1554

Re: AAD in practice

It seems the question was raised before, in 2011: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=85423&p=647774&hilit=AAD#p647774 — no conclusion though, and the referred webinar is gone...
by snufkin
April 21st, 2017, 4:37 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: AAD in practice
Replies: 8
Views: 1554

AAD in practice

Hi all, A newbie question: is AAD (adjoint algorithmic differentiation) actually used in practice? What is it good for and what are its limitations? Some of the quants say that it's only good for first derivatives; I can see a brilliant description at  https://www.wilmott.com/automatic-for-the-greek...
by snufkin
April 18th, 2017, 7:26 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Asked to login at desk of colleague
Replies: 5
Views: 5118

Re: Asked to login at desk of colleague

Discuss it with your manager. It's most likely his fault for not requesting the correct access for you ahead of you joining. I have seen exactly zero places where "correct access" would be requested ahead of time. In two banks I worked for, as well as a few startups and whatnot, the first...
by snufkin
April 16th, 2017, 10:40 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Asked to login at desk of colleague
Replies: 5
Views: 5118

Re: Asked to login at desk of colleague

It's not normal, and I'm surprised to hear that IT department is anywhere near being that bad in what essentially is a heavily technological business.

As for the advice, talk to your manager, raise this problem, make notes. I'm not convinced it's a dangerous situation but it's definitely weird. 
by snufkin
April 14th, 2017, 8:28 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Pressed to sign contract quickly
Replies: 10
Views: 5034

Re: Pressed to sign contract quickly

Do not assume anyone in this process is on your side, (even me ;) I just need to quote it here. Every single time I'm promised bad things if I don't accept I walk away and — surprise — bad things go away and new options open. And the same bloody recruiters telling me that if I walk away I'll have a...
by snufkin
February 3rd, 2017, 11:11 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Crowdfunding
Replies: 11
Views: 2192

Re: Crowdfunding

Oh, to invest! I use Seedrs for monthly "silly £100" investment (though I haven't invested anything for the last year, should probably start again) — they cover pretty much all the paperwork and send back the EIS/SEIS certificates for your tax return, so the process is as trivial as sendin...
by snufkin
February 2nd, 2017, 9:07 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Crowdfunding
Replies: 11
Views: 2192

Re: Crowdfunding

I've friends who crowdfunded their album  (now closed), and one of them currently crowdfunds another . Consider it a shameless plug: please do support Gleb. So that gives us at least two more venues (in addition to leapfunder mentioned above), indiegogo and kickstarter. I can reach out to the guys a...
by snufkin
February 1st, 2017, 4:50 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: GitHub
Replies: 29
Views: 15783

Re: GitHub

General question. Is this gitesque approach useful for online courses, code distributions, forums etc. instead of let's say a phpBB? Code contributions are quite obviously simpler with GitHub. Hell, phpBB is bad for almost anything :) Distributions... GitHub used to be good at that; not any more, a...
by snufkin
January 31st, 2017, 5:54 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Quickest way to parse this data into CSV for input?
Replies: 6
Views: 5345

Re: Quickest way to parse this data into CSV for input?

It's not exactly clear what is the original dataset's format and what is the final goal. If the original data is some kind of text, and the final goal is to get it into R, I would stick to R — it has everything one may need to slice and dice a file, _provided it fits in the memory._ As an added bonu...