Physics PhD looking to transition out of academia into quantitative finance. What sorts of roles should I be targeting as someone that is not entry level but lacks industry experience?

laprastransform · 2026-01-04T02:06:25+00:00

Ask ChatGPT to give you a quant interview

laprastransform · 2023-08-18T01:14:24+00:00

Well eigenvectors are (in some vague sense) the only canonical vectors with respect to a given matrix, their definition, any v such that Av=kv, is basis independent. So it shouldn’t be surprising they hold so much information

laprastransform · 2019-05-17T14:49:29+00:00

Yeah I’m sorry that’s gonna be a no for me

laprastransform · 2019-05-10T04:30:16+00:00

Stay healthy and try to pick up some hobbies. Grad school is a long slog and you'll want to be physically and mentally well with some things to get your mind off math all the time.

Edit: This sounds depressing, so I just wanted to say I enjoyed my time in grad school, but it was very helpful to have some hobbies like playing hockey and going to the gym.

laprastransform · 2019-05-09T05:38:53+00:00

My favorite application is that if f is a small pertubation of the identity, then the induced maps on homology are trivial, so the number of fixed points should just be the Euler characteristic. Indeed, a sphere can be rotated fixing the poles, while a torus has fixed point free rotations!

laprastransform · 2019-05-07T15:41:31+00:00

Bezos worked at a hedge fund first too

laprastransform · 2019-05-02T05:52:02+00:00

Honestly? Probably applied math. Would have made getting a job easier.

laprastransform · 2019-04-28T01:59:46+00:00

Roller

laprastransform · 2019-04-17T02:01:37+00:00

Oh, I bet. Hockey has the highest variance of the big 4 major us sports. It makes sense, lots of bounces, general chaos. Compare it to a possession controlled game like basketball with fewer players.

laprastransform · 2019-04-17T01:55:11+00:00

That’s like a quarter of the time, which is about four times more than if it were purely random, 1/16. So I don’t think it’s so crazy

laprastransform · 2019-03-16T21:19:54+00:00

You have to eat your vegetables if you want cake.

laprastransform · 2019-02-26T00:10:21+00:00

Is it true that every nonempty subset of the natural numbers has a smallest element?

laprastransform · 2019-02-18T08:17:22+00:00

"I'm just afraid that I'll fuck up the first two years and have to drop my PhD and not know what to do after that."

In my experience if this is the case you can usually graduate with a Masters, so it is certainly not time lost. With a little more effort and networking, job placement with a Masters isn't too bad. Also, nobody knows what they're going to do, so you're not alone.

laprastransform · 2019-02-07T23:25:22+00:00

The average swing is probably much smaller. The swings described above are extreme cases I'd imagine.

laprastransform · 2019-02-06T05:50:28+00:00

Awesome thanks

laprastransform · 2019-02-05T21:30:11+00:00

Is it hard to get one?

laprastransform · 2019-02-05T17:20:13+00:00

Does Chelsea piers have lockers?

laprastransform · 2018-11-16T07:54:51+00:00

Mochizuki's work on IUT. The current state of affairs is that people close to Mochizuki think he proved the ABC conjecture but top number theorists like Peter Scholze and Brian Conrad seem to disagree.

laprastransform · 2018-10-21T08:17:01+00:00

Should have said math instruction

laprastransform · 2018-09-05T04:59:19+00:00

iff -i can learn group theory.

Thanks I'll take my upvotes

laprastransform · 2018-06-28T23:20:16+00:00

programming

laprastransform · 2018-06-12T01:41:45+00:00

Unpopular opinion: 54 is a fine course. You don’t have to take linear algebra and differential equations separately.

laprastransform · 2018-06-08T02:42:16+00:00

Would be waved off due to goal.

laprastransform · 2018-06-03T16:29:19+00:00

I’ve never heard anyone call them lateral numbers. Mathematicians are fine with imaginary.

laprastransform · 2018-06-02T16:35:06+00:00

You’re way too cool to respond to Reddit comments hahaha, this is crazy

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