QuantNet Swags

[Daniel Duffy]

 

[Daniel Duffy]

I suppose an umbrella swap is useful for those rainy days.

 

[Dimitri Vulis]

A green QuantNet umbrella protects the environment from climate change

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Indeed! never leave home without it, what?

 

[Paul Lopez]

Indeed! never leave home without it, what?

What a picture

 

[Dimitri Vulis]

 

[Paul Lopez]

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I'd leave it to Prof Duffy and sir Avi to come up with what code would be on the swag :D

If it were me designing it I'd probably introduce a memory leak.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

I'd leave it to Prof Duffy and sir Avi to come up with what code would be on the swag :D

If it were me designing it I'd probably introduce a memory leak.

In contrast to that t shirt, neithet Avi nor myself would use

using namespace std;

jikes

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Avi will like this (mee too)

 

[Daniel Duffy]

COBOL!

 

[Dimitri Vulis]

I once saw a Brady bond option pricer written in Cobol.

 

[Ken Abbott]

The swag we deserve.

 

[Lukee]

This one is more of a joke because finance bros on WSO go crazy over vests

Hence the Patagonia x Quantnet collab

 

[Dimitri Vulis]

Patagonia doesn't do it anymore https://www.fastcompany.com/9062627...atagonia-ditches-corporate-logos-on-its-vests but others still do, probably made in the same factory in PRC.

 

[Lukee]

Patagonia doesn't do it anymore https://www.fastcompany.com/9062627...atagonia-ditches-corporate-logos-on-its-vests but others still do, probably made in the same factory in PRC.

Well it looks like Quantnet will need to bring it back then

 

[Daniel Duffy]

What a picture

Arnhem, 1945 .. A Bridge Too Far.
Only the British bring umbrellas to war.

 

[Dimitri Vulis]

The (legendary and awesome) GS banker bag is from

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[Daniel Duffy]

I once saw a Brady bond option pricer written in Cobol.

I got a COBOL certificate from Michael Jackson Institute (not the singer) a long way back.
Bonds need +, * etc. which COBOL has.

I tried BS in COBOL but gave up when reaching N(x).

 

[Dimitri Vulis]

I never worked in cobol, but I taught a cobol class in the 1990s, to college kids who wanted to work on y2k remediation. I don't think normal pdf is intrinsic in cobol. Neither is any error function that could help calculate it it.

Brady bonds had partial U..S. government guarantees, so the option pricer was relatively complicated.

 

[Quasar Chunawala]

Don't mean to digress on this thread.

Briefly, I worked on IBM zO/S COBOL, CICS GUI screens and IMS/DB for a bank out of college (2008). Maintaining or enhancing legacy code wasn't the easiest - COBOL is verbose. I don't think there were any numerical libraries.

As a fun trivia fact, I know that, the flight guidance software for the Apollo 11 moon mission was written in IBM assembly. But, much of the numerical linear algebra routines, I have read, were originally written in FORTRAN. I'm guessing, IBM just failed to adapt.

I am an 80s kid, so maybe @Daniel Duffy and @Dimitri Vulis, you'll would know more about it.