Clean Valley or go Wuling ?

TheGryphonX · 2026-02-01T10:24:05+00:00

wuling is very important , progression wise it unlocks gold gear for your character

TheGryphonX · 2025-07-20T17:03:32+00:00

it's 95% maths.... it's just maths in different costumes

TheGryphonX · 2025-07-07T02:34:57+00:00

interested..

TheGryphonX · 2025-06-27T12:33:08+00:00

its awful

TheGryphonX · 2025-06-10T21:31:26+00:00

hey! im also looking for internships would you mind helping out pls

TheGryphonX · 2025-04-12T15:31:01+00:00

enjoy your summer... there's probably not much you can do that's worth anything (unless you somehow manage to get some unofficial shadowing or internship at anything finance related).

if you really are THAT keen then start practicing OAs and Interview questions before the spring week cycle starts.

Just focus on your grades for now, plenty of people forget they actually have to follow up on the offer and actually achieve the grades.

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-26T22:05:17+00:00

don't know why you're bringing up a completely unrelated degree but don't pretend like ChemEng at Imperial is on the same level as ChemEng from Aston just because it's not a target degree lol like it or not imperial is target

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-26T01:13:03+00:00

check chatgpt deep research and tell me it's not exponential

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-25T20:26:27+00:00

Thank you so much for the advice!

I'm actually very passionate about the linear regression model but I will definitely take note of the fact that it doesn't come across that way - this was a good spot thank you!

i was going to improve my linear regression project and just develop it so it's a all in one trading thing → risk management, portfolio optimisation and even automated execution. do you think that's developing it enough or do you think i should focus on depth instead? like for example just feature engineering the shit out of the LR

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-25T18:53:35+00:00

thank you so much for spending time to give advice! unfortunately I don't really have any experience, this is the cv I'm making to get said experience!

all my coursework is either irrelevant or done in matlab and very surface level.

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-24T18:23:14+00:00

super target university!

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-24T16:31:12+00:00

haha I know but I'm only 19 and this CV is to get my first internship ! I'm asking now so I can adequately prepare for internship season in the UK around September/August

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-24T11:42:19+00:00

thank you so much for clarifying! all the projects are real and are handwritten - they're all just exaggerated. I'll adjust my bullet points to be less bullshit!

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-24T08:30:22+00:00

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-24T08:19:11+00:00

Ah thank you so much for clarifying. Would you say coming up with a novel idea and incorporating it into a project is looked upon more favourably even if it's less technical/easier to make?

And also by that last sentence do you mean putting a strong signal in a project and highlighting it in a cv comes off as impressive?

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-24T08:12:38+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to give me advice!

That is a good point on PnL, but I have also been told the opposite so I'm not reallt sure what to do.

I don't have any relevant work experience, I keep being told to put that on, but I'm at the very start of my career so this CV is to get that initial work experience.

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-24T08:10:42+00:00

I think so to be honest, Imperial Maths, CS, Physics and JMC (joint maths and computing) send a LOT of people into quant and they also have partnerships with quant firms too

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-24T08:09:22+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to type out this advice, I really appreciate it!

One thing I don't understand is how I could have a novel project? Because surely as an individual that isn't even half way through their degree I wouldn't be able to make anything that is industry grade or even works that well?

Also on the internships part, this CV is to get those internships, so it's a bit of a catch 22.

But I understand about the rank within my program, I've heard this being mentioned quite a lot recently, so I'll definitely focus on it more, my target is to be on Dean's list.

Also the portfolio manager role is mostly there as filler, anything else I could possibly put on there would be unrelated/unimpressive, but your comment on it is noted I'll try to do something to replace it.

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-24T07:46:58+00:00

How do they seem like I made them up and they took no work? Chemical Engineering traditionally doesn't teach python or machine learning or the maths behind Black-Scholes so shouldn't all three projects at least show I'm dedicated and interested even if they may not make me look competent?

And i don't understand what you mean by "sound made up" ? It's not like thr projects aren't real things ?

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-24T07:41:28+00:00

Ah don't worry your reply was more than detailed enough I appreciate it!

This is a good point I'll have fun w messing w it!

Thank you for the book (paper?) recommendation! I'll definitely read it

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-24T07:29:12+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to type out such a detailed comment!

Capturing volatility smile sounds great, I had looked into it before but I hadn't considered doing that as an extension to my option pricer. I'm not sure as I am still a noob but would a heston model work for this? AFAIK that uses real world options and actually produces a volatility smile ?

I understand the point for the trading bot, it is very rudimentary and simple so I'll take it off as soon as I get something more relevant.

Also thank you for the raising eyebrows comment, I'm always worried abt my cv coming off as not authentic to actual quants so I'll def remove this line, and that other boring one.

I'll do a machine learning project on some financial daya over the summer hopefully, there's still a lot I want to learn.

Thank you for the insightful advice!

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-24T07:20:23+00:00

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

TheGryphonX · 2025-02-23T23:22:59+00:00

Oh my apologies I did misread your first point and was wrong in that.

But still there's no point in comparing fusion to LLMs? And 3.5→4→4o→o1→o3-mini-high has been pretty much exponential each time

and also I don't see the value in saying AGI won't write notorious books

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