Ask HN: What’s it like being a Quant or Quantitative Programmer

Re:Ask HN: What’s it like being a Quant or Quantitative Prog... by cleuuum on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:48PM (#23726903)

You work as what we call a 'data monkey' for some economist or trader who can't work computers, thinks a linear fit is the state of the art, would jack off over an R² of >0.05, wants you to spend all your time automating p-hacking, and is almost certainly a sociopath or sex offender.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s it like being a Quant or Quantitative Prog... by cleuuum on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:54PM (#23726938)

As far as programming language I'd recommend KDB/Q as it's one of the few you can just self learn, prove it in an interview call for 15-20 min, and then start Monday. Pay is good and KDB devs are rare.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s it like being a Quant or Quantitative Prog... by mraza007 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @12:03AM (#23730019)

Just curious what’s KDB

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Re:Ask HN: What’s it like being a Quant or Quantitative Prog... by gobayesgo on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:18AM (#23732826)

A database optimized for queries on time series.

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