chrisaycock

See also the list of quantitative trading firms.

Getting Started

How do I become a quant?

You will become a quant by getting a job as a quant.

I know that’s kind of redundant and not particularly useful, but it’s the only approach.

chrisaycock

See also the FAQ for Aspiring Quants.

• 3Red Partners
• A Priori Investments
• Acadian Asset Management
• Akuna Capital
• Albatross Labs
• AlphaGrep
• AlphaSimplex
• Alphataraxia Management

chrisaycock

// answer to https://quant.stackexchange.com/q/55088/35
// compile with c++ pcap_udp.cpp -lpcap

#include <iostream>

#include <pcap/pcap.h>
#include <netinet/if_ether.h>
#include <netinet/ip.h>
#include <netinet/udp.h>

yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

zaius

ctrl-z
bg

touch /tmp/stdout
touch /tmp/stderr
gdb -p $!

# In GDB
p dup2(open("/tmp/stdout", 1), 1)
p dup2(open("/tmp/stderr", 1), 2)

chriseppstein

Sass/Less Comparison

In this document I am using Sass's SCSS syntax. You can choose to use the indented syntax in sass, if you prefer it, it has no functional differences from the SCSS syntax.

For Less, I'm using the JavaScript version because this is what they suggest on the website. The ruby version may be different.

Variables

robbywalker

from itertools import combinations, chain
nums = tuple([int(v) for v in "3   4   9   14  15  19  28  37  47  50  54  56  59  61  70  73  78  81  92  95  97  99".split(' ') if v.strip()])
print sum([1 for v in chain(*[combinations(nums, r) for r in range(3, len(nums))]) if sum(v[0:-1]) == v[-1]])