<r>Thinking I wanted a PhD in math, I earned a 36 hour non-thesis MS in Math before turning tail to physics grad school. I hate abstraction seemingly for the sake of abstraction, and Rudin's book and Royden's book on real analysis caused a lot of my hatred. Had I had Risk-Neutral Valuation as a MOTI...

<t>Unless we kill ourselves off, or get squashed by a meteor first (splat!) I had little doubt that the Singularity would happen to humanity-eventually, somewhere deep into the distant future. Ray Kurzweil's 1999 book, Age of the Spiritual Machine blew me away. Ray, backing up his ideas with convinc...

I don't know the gentleman (or gentlewoman). Should I?Alex

<r>Bill Gates can't eat you...just yet. Bill Gates, as rich as the poorest billion or so poor people, can't eat many more calories per day than the poorest person on any given day--perhaps 5,000 calories versus 1,000 subsistence calories.This may change in 20-40 years.If the day comes when we can up...

<r>Dear fellow members,No longer a quant, I work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where, among other activities, research is conducted in simulating artificial societies. Recently, a large-scale supercomputer study was released simulating the effects of a terror strike in virtual cities in the Uni...

<r>Dear DCFC et. al.I've been struggling with Dalton's book on how to pass a 2-D array from VBA/Excel to C++. In VBA I hava a large matrix M(i,j) of doubles. I want to pass it to C++ to square it. Then I want it returned. I'm sure I'll eventually get it, but I would greatly appreciate a sample as I'...

<t>Thanks for the replies DCFC, Cuchulainn and David. At Dynegy my boss was an ex-Enron quant (another PhD in physics) who basically micromanaged and wanted coding projects done in two weeks for the traders. I never felt comfortable about having worked out all the bugs at that pace. He also made it ...

<t>Sorry to be off topic, but you seem to be very informed in the quant business. Given that econophysics evolves, I understand coding will always be required. But given that so many types of financial instruments have been around, and that their numerical methods have been worked out in commercial ...

<t>Given that econophysics evolves, I understand coding will always be required. But given that so many types of financial instruments have been around, and that their numerical methods have been worked out in commercial products such as Mathematica, etc., why is there so much coding in econophysics...