I would like to read this book but the O'Reilly website eBook + Print combo deal is not available until next year.. Does anyone know how I can order both and get the early access ebook now and then the print book when it's ready?
That would be awesome, I'm using Scala and I would like to incorporate more scalaz into my programming but I have yet to find information convincing me how to go from math concept to implemented functional design pattern.
I worked at a hedge fund at the start of my career, though it was somewhat atypical as it was a very new fund and had more of a startup environment than a well established hedge fund. The work was a fantastic split between analysis and building new software to run the fund.
But to your point, the CTO of the fund was a pure math phd who got into finance/coding when his advisors asked "Ok so now how are you going to make money". which is common for most of the heavy duty quants I know.
I wanted to give some recommendations before I hijacked your thread with my own question but I was going to suggest What is Mathematics, How to Prove it and Naive Set Theory which have already have been mentioned.
I'm actually in a related situation in which I'm competent in analysis (bachelors in physics) but I struggle with all the category theory inspired design patterns in functional programming.
Every book/article I've tried to read is either far too mathematical and so is disconnected from programming or is too close to programming and lacking in general foundations (ie: a monad is a burrito).
For my high school's CS class final project, we made a street brawler using doom characters. All the doom art was captured via opening a game and using print screen, then hoping the sprite was in the right position.
In retrospect, our sprites had their own lofi charm but yea, I never thought to just open up the WAD files.
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Kixer is a funded ad platform that helps app developers get more app installs through the use of targeted ads. It's a giant optimization feedback loop and has to be very fast as well. Small engineering team in Austin although remote is possible.
I'm going to go way out on a limb here but also I would think that 4chan would be more likely to contain the type of smart person willing to put in many hours into a problem with very little real expectation of an end goal/reward. At least more so than the other communities.
Agreed, as someone who worked in HFT and thus has a positive bias towards it, I found Dark Pools to be an extremely informative and factual historical account of the industry even if the author's opinions disagree with mine.
Flash Boys however I can't even get through because the author backs an extremist negative position with completely incorrect facts. I fill with seething rage every time I realize how much more public exposure Flash Boys gets.
That's not really true per se. That's the chart of USD/BTC so the inverse of BTC/USD which has dropped significantly in the past few days so of course the inverse has shown an increase.
For a more accurate picture of the dollar I track the UUP ETF which pegs it's value to the dollars exchange rate over a basket of currencies. (Which btw has been on a steady downtrend in the past 6 months, definitely not doubling everyday)
Edit: Looks like zak_mc_kracken beat me to it. Which I think just makes the point even more obvious