On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 11:46 -0500, evansl wrote: > On 03/22/14 06:40, Russel Winder wrote: > [snip] > > What you are alluding to is the use of Monte Carlo approach to solve > > some of the models given boundary conditions. This is a "bog standard" > By "bog standard" do you mean "plain or ordinary? > > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bog_standard
Sort of. This webpage almost, but not quite, totally misses all the British humorous subtleties. But yes. Effectively. > > approach to numerical modelling. > > > [snip] > > Many of the hedge funds are following in the HEP, > > By HEP do you mean "High Energy Physics"? Oh yes. But I was only involved in HEP when all the software was in FORTRAN. Recently they have started using Fortran, and even C++. This is almost certainly Stephen Wolfram's fault. > [snip] > > In a number of the major international finance houses a > > Python/Scala/C++ stack has taken hold. However this is not fixed > > forever, since whenever the CTO changes the stack tends to as well. > > By CTO do you mean "Chief Technology Officer"? Indeed. Many companies outside the US hipster company organization theory may use the term Technical Director. :-) > TIA. > > -regards, > Larry Hopefully that is not Page or Ellison. ;-) -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
