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OK, I'll give that one a look. Cheers

Sorry, I didn't really make the point of the post that clear. Trying to enter a new field (or career) is pretty daunting especially when you don't actually know what specific area of that field you're going to end up working in or the areas that are important. What I want to achieve over the...

I'm sure I was the last person to pick up on this but there are lots of free full versions of microsoft products available at https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/ if you are a student. Good old Microsoft!

I thought you meant his salary!!

Top 7 Books to Read - edited OK original post wasn't very well thought. I'm trying to get a good overview of the tools available and types of problems faced by a quant, but I don't want to spend thousands on text books and don't have the time to read them all. I want to pick 7 books that would...

I think a more intuitive way to understand the Monty Hall problem is to scale it up. Say I have 1000 raffle tickets you pick one, there is only one winning ticket, I then tear up 998 raffle tickets that I know as the host not to be winning tickets so there are two remaining (you have one and I...

Thanks for the great advice, I'll look them up.

My thesis is in Computer Vision, basically I do non-invasive tracking of people from a single camera (for surveillance purposes or markerless motion capture). This seems a bit unrelated, but I think there's definately some overlap. Also we do quite a lot of work to try and achieve real-time...

Hello, I have about a year of PhD/RA work left and am planning what to do when I'm finished. I've been looking into becoming a quant and just ordered the books etc with a plan to have a good knowledge of this industry by the time I finish next year. However, most of the discussions seem to...