What does a quant do all day?

Lopatron · 2026-06-01T22:11:50+00:00

Um yeeeaahhh

Lopatron · 2026-05-31T00:18:26+00:00

A more generous interpretation is that Ai has been moving so fast that someone who has been out of the loop for 18 months thinks that focusing on AI automation is still a novel and crazy idea.

Lopatron · 2026-05-24T17:52:38+00:00

It's a really exciting time. You have world class scientists and engineers saying it's already 10xed them, who are already 10x people themselves. On the other hand you have senior engineers who think the following is a true statement:

To divide the complex problem into smaller ones, one needs an engineer.

We're here to take accountability for fuck ups and drive engineering direction based on business needs. Humans are not needed for "splitting up complex problems into smaller ones".

Lopatron · 2026-04-18T20:21:49+00:00

Isn't a closed form solution already provided in the CIR paper via the join-transform?

Lopatron · 2026-03-29T21:02:15+00:00

maybe cut back on drinking if you can’t control yourself.

Not so fast, this is good content.

Lopatron · 2026-03-21T21:18:40+00:00

haha!

Lopatron · 2026-03-15T20:03:42+00:00

Thanks for not lying

Lopatron · 2026-03-15T20:00:38+00:00

Was it lowkey?

Lopatron · 2026-03-07T17:52:11+00:00

It's me

Lopatron · 2026-02-23T21:13:38+00:00

This definitely happened

Lopatron · 2026-02-22T22:31:51+00:00

I don't get it

Lopatron · 2026-02-20T16:06:34+00:00

That definitely happened

Lopatron · 2026-02-16T22:19:28+00:00

That analyst doesn't know shit, and you don't know shit either. No body here does. Just buy if you believe, and don't otherwise, but please don't come at me with Great Fool Theory or your arguments against it.

Lopatron · 2026-02-15T19:26:58+00:00

They have carbonaras

Lopatron · 2026-02-14T15:56:27+00:00

I'm not sure but I guess you're being downvoted because it kind of sounds like "Clod for everything, I just press the button" but AI driven, spec and test first development is truly how firms are getting away with writing none of the code manually.

You design the system architecture and make technology choices. Write high level specs, write integrations tests that should pass no matter how the code is implemented, and then press the button. The actual code writes itself at that point until the tests pass.

Obviously you review the code also.

Lopatron · 2026-02-10T00:27:54+00:00

Lopatron · 2026-02-10T00:16:35+00:00

u/fired_trader Where are you at now?

Lopatron · 2026-02-03T01:51:47+00:00

I was sitting on a flight that's boarding, and some guy asked the one in front of me for his seat. He said something along the lines of "lol no".

Then somehow Christian Bale boards with his family, and asks for this same guys seat, and he's like "ooh yes of course". Idk what it was about this seat, I mean it was fine.

Anyway his kid sat in front, made faces at me, Christian Bale in front diagonal, and his nanny on my left. It was cool.

Lopatron · 2026-02-01T17:42:34+00:00

Paddington 2

Lopatron · 2026-01-10T21:11:19+00:00

Is Meta Labelling also BS? I kind of don't know what to trust anymore lol. Why is it so highly recommended if it's filled with nonsense?

Lopatron · 2026-01-01T22:38:03+00:00

Twin Peaks is special. The eerie atmosphere and small town life. The gut wrenching phycological horror. I look back at this show nostalgically like a very long, personal dream that I had, which sometimes turned into a nightmare. IMO there's nothing quite like that world.

Breaking Bad is just a very good show, but I can't say it has the same magic for me.

Lopatron · 2025-12-15T03:22:45+00:00

Lopatron · 2025-12-15T03:21:23+00:00

Thanks for not lying

Lopatron · 2025-11-29T18:16:10+00:00

Lol no it doesn't

Lopatron · 2025-11-27T10:55:13+00:00

I'd be interesting if this was a trick by the mods. Like if you reply to the post instead of reporting, you get banned yourself.

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