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by multivariatecopula
September 6th, 2019, 11:03 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Your rants here
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Views: 168314

Re: Your rants here

Almost forgot: Dutch women buy rounds for you.
Can confirm (I am Asian)
by multivariatecopula
September 4th, 2019, 10:16 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?
Replies: 12
Views: 17593

Re: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?

got the buy-side trading research role. thanks everyone!
by multivariatecopula
June 20th, 2019, 5:54 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Do you agree with Yann LeCun about Deep Learning being dead and "Differentiable programming" being the next hot thing in
Replies: 11
Views: 10306

Re: Do you agree with Yann LeCun about Deep Learning being dead and "Differentiable programming" being the next hot thin

Could be useful in areas like computer vision or text translation. Don't see it being useful in finance where the cat's face changes while you train the cat face model.
by multivariatecopula
June 3rd, 2019, 9:38 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Interview Question
Replies: 10
Views: 12589

Re: Interview Question

seconded, i am in the same position, although I just started in risk management I would like to switch to buy-side quant research ASAP
by multivariatecopula
May 13th, 2019, 7:54 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?
Replies: 12
Views: 17593

Re: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?

hey everyone, so i prodded a bit more about the role, and the situation is that they want me to work on a big anti-financial crime data science project, and as for smaller projects, to automate manual model val work. is this a good position to be in? Data science is good (or, I mean, it sounds good...
by multivariatecopula
May 12th, 2019, 10:03 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?
Replies: 12
Views: 17593

Re: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?

hey everyone,

so i prodded a bit more about the role, and the situation is that they want me to work on a big anti-financial crime data science project, and as for smaller projects, to automate manual model val work. is this a good position to be in?
by multivariatecopula
April 19th, 2019, 7:47 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?
Replies: 12
Views: 17593

Re: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?

Ah, OK. I think it's time to get a real job. I did start pursuing a quant career late in my college career though (slacked off first two years trying to get laid..sigh), so an additional machine learning internship at a financial institution wouldn't hurt. However, I'd obviously prefer a buy-side f...
by multivariatecopula
April 19th, 2019, 7:13 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?
Replies: 12
Views: 17593

Re: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?

If you get a full time job offer, are you going to drop out from college?
I'm graduating in a month.
by multivariatecopula
April 19th, 2019, 4:15 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?
Replies: 12
Views: 17593

Re: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?

You use the term "internship" about your actual offer. We are talking a summer job here? That lowers the stakes slightly relative to a first full time job. Please clarify!  yes, summer internship. it would lower the stakes. what would you do (WWYD)? i started pursuing quant late in my stu...
by multivariatecopula
April 18th, 2019, 9:51 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?
Replies: 12
Views: 17593

Which entry level job to take to set up a buy-side front-office quant career?

Hi all, Recently, I've gotten some pretty good news in terms of job offers. For background, I am a math undergrad at a semi-target. Here is the job situation: (back-office) model validation analyst internship at major i-bank (received offer) quantitative analyst at small startup-ish prop firm (pass...