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by Chris2048
3578 days ago
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> it's knowing the plumbing that makes you productive as a dev, of any kind Is this true of quant devs? Seems the focus is different - regular devs aren't as rare, so maybe the most important thing is producing a viable POC? As for quants not knowing VC - did they come from a dev background? |
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No, and that was the problem. The more you venture into this field, the more you realise how much of it is coding. New idea about how price series X relates to Y? No use unless you can pull the data, do the transformations yourself.
Another critical problem is that when you're unproductive, you make contortions to make your results "real". You make rationalizations that don't hold up, because OMG it's a lot of work to test some more ideas.