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Re:Medallion fund: a remarkably successful quant trading fir... by applecore on Monday November 21, 2016 @10:26AM (#13006034)
> Eventually the scientists went so far as to develop an in-house programming language for their models rather than settle for a numbercentric option such as ASCII, which was popular at the time.

I have fond memories of the late 1980s. The ASCII programming language was very popular at the time.

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Re:Medallion fund: a remarkably successful quant trading fir... by Something1234 on Monday November 21, 2016 @03:59PM (#13009158)
Is this sarcasm? I can't find any reference to an ASCII programming language.
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Re:Medallion fund: a remarkably successful quant trading fir... by fanzhang on Monday November 21, 2016 @04:06PM (#13009211)
Yes.
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