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0 pointspcl13y ago0 comments

From what I understand, a lot of the FPGA and vector calculus stuff that financial-services companies are doing is leaps and bounds ahead of the published materials. But I'm not under NDA in any related projects, so that's just hearsay.

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fghh45sdfhr313y ago

I'm pretty sure we have Wall street quants here, unless one of them offers a convincing argument that yes, they are well ahead of academia, I don't believe it.

In my anecdotal experience, the financial industry is light years behind most post-graduate level mathematicians and physicists. Finanical math is kind of scary for anyone who knows more math than the average banker.

pclOP13y ago

But that's the thing, right? Most of the people working on this stuff are disincented from discussing it, both contractually and in terms of their own profit motives.

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fghh45sdfhr313y ago

I'm pretty sure we have Wall street quants here, unless one of them offers a convincing argument that yes, they are well ahead of academia, I don't believe it.

pclOP13y ago

But that's the thing, right? Most of the people working on this stuff are disincented from discussing it, both contractually and in terms of their own profit motives.

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