<t> YES, I remember watching Hot-Dog eating contests on ESPN 2 this summer at my IDB... I loved it! Work on the new, sexy stuff: I was selling weird energy products, and it was fun! I actually structured a project finance transaction with deliverables, asset-backed delivery guarantees, etc, but our ...

QuoteOriginally posted by: PaperCutQuoteOriginally posted by: phirangmPapercut, what's a good firm?I dunno. Just be careful out there... Thanks for the advice...

just cuz you sign it and it's in a contract doesn't mean it's legally binding. check out your laws.

<t> I have to say, no amount of money can ever equal the thrill of kicking ass, especially when your adversary ends up paying for the resulting property damage(undergrad waaaas fun!) I found interesting how the really big guys offer lower value than the stringy, insane dudes. This is probably isomor...

Papercut, what's a good firm?

How do these small hedge funds recruit? Also, what skills are relevant to making the big dough? Is it hard-core stochastics or dynamical systems or the inscrutable je ne sais quoi?

Ack! I've got a phone interview in a few days with jane st., and I'm pretty nervous. I'm applying for the assistant trader position. What sort of questions can I expect? Is it manhole covers or expected values or continuoity on crack?

<t> last i heard, MM offered 10k to anyone who can prove he used factitious evidence in his film. yeah, hitchens is a sensationlist wanker: hell, he needs the money. he's articulate, yet flaccid and chain-smoking, and so i can't feel any sort of affection for him. hell, he tried to impeach mother te...

You're abusing the word "vitiate".

yeah, i just fixed my friend's numerical method program, and so SUCK IT!

give them some variation of the monty hall problem or some other classic... if they can't give a good explication of the general solution, then they haven't hammered down their basics.

<r> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-men!QuoteOriginally posted by: amitnewyorkI have had a lot of amusement following the messages in this forum. Well, I can't understand why my countrymen (Indians) would express such desperation of reaching US and becoming financial quants, when some of them don't even know wha...

<t> this is only somewhat analgous, but i finished my toughest group theory homework practically stinking drunk. anyway, smartests guys i know all do their work in the bar.QuoteOriginally posted by: Aristonelan:David Askin was a well-educated hedge fund manager operated with a solid knowledge base a...

why do they demand ph. d's and then ask q's that would barely strain an undergrad?

matlab is all vectors/matrices, and it can take a bit of getting used to... i remember a prof used a for loop in for something in our controls class, and some of us changed it to just an indices manipulation: this improved the performance by a factor of like 100.