neuronsguy

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by neuronsguy 8y ago
If you have the option then the country is not your primary concern. The quality of your PhD experience is 95% determined by the quality of your supervisor and lab-mates. So you should judge based on that irrespective of the country. How
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by neuronsguy 8y ago
My recollection is that I usually found the lectures to be as exciting as the lecturer did. So if he was excited, so was I. Are you perhaps not sufficiently conveying your interest in the topics to the students?
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by neuronsguy 8y ago
I think it means Individual Contributor work, so he's coding stuff not managing people
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by neuronsguy 8y ago
Trading. Check out firms like Optiver, Jump Trading, XR, etc. Big bucks for FPGA devs
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by neuronsguy 9y ago
I think that term encompasses a wide range of designs. The article seems to be describing a particular style of event-driven architecture, used to organize code within a single process.
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by neuronsguy 9y ago
First thing is you need to actually be a good engineer. No point optimising if you suck, just put your head down and learn. Next thing you need to know is the rules of the game in YOUR organisation. Every company is different and the rules
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by neuronsguy 9y ago
You are correct about the tech industry here (low salaries relative to US) but developers working in finance in London make comparable money to Bay Area tech firms. People routinely get paid £100k straight out of university to write code in
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by neuronsguy 9y ago
Here's a great idea: bitcoin settlement, custody, and clearing for institutional investors. There is a huge first mover advantage to be had signing up to prime broker every hedge fund's bitcoins and help settle OTC transactions.
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by neuronsguy 9y ago
Some things to avoid early on so you can get a working app out quickly: 1. Don't build OO abstractions, just use structs as data and operate on it with free functions. 2. Don't be afraid of long argument lists with lots of referen
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by neuronsguy 9y ago
Which did you prefer? I currently work in the former environment (but everyone is like that guy), and it's super noisy and distracting but also fun.
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by neuronsguy 9y ago
This sounds cool. Two questions: 1. Without giving away secrets, how do you find such clients? 2. You must have some great stories. Would you care to share any?
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by neuronsguy 9y ago
I'm including the Gryadka author's rebuttal here, for completeness: Thank you for the analysis of my post but it seems that you didn't get it correctly. Even to read a value you have to execute the full cycle (prepare, accept
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by neuronsguy 9y ago
No. I think he understands exactly what the article means, and is correctly stating that it is not necessarily foul play at all.
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by neuronsguy 10y ago
Yes that's what I worked out as well. That's not doing any operations just storage.
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by neuronsguy 10y ago
That is specifically if you want to get a job as a trader. The best way is by spending time playing poker, bridge, etc. Sports betting is also good. Any game where you are making decisions facing asymmetric payoffs under uncertainty. Trade
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by neuronsguy 10y ago
Depends what your goals are. If you want to get a job at an HFT e.g. Jump: as a student you're not expected to know much about finance or trading, the prerequisite knowledge is similar to getting hired at eg Google. I work at one of t