Anyone watching Horizon?

[NickFitz]

Ta for the tip, iPlayer here I come

[DimPrawn]

Explaining Big Data tonight.

Fascinating. I wish I was smart enough to be a Quant...

Very interesting.

I've heard a few people say sasguru is a bit of a quant?

[TestMangler]

Very interesting.

I've heard a few people say sasguru is a bit of a quant?

Think you're mixing that up with his ancient European title. I'm sure people call him a 'count' quite regularly

[mudskipper]

Think you're mixing that up with his ancient European title. I'm sure people call him a 'count' quite regularly

He does enjoy country life.

[Mich the Tester]

I wish I was smart enough to be a Quant...

According to the IQ tests I'm smart enough to be a quant. Trouble is, I'm also stupid enough to have chosen to study something other than maths.

[sasguru]

Humility came up in the programme, now that's one attribute that won't familiar to Sas.

I am actually quite humble, but don't see the need to pretend to be an imbecile in order to fit in with some on here.

The program was quite well done I thought.

[proggy]

Explaining Big Data tonight.

Fascinating. I wish I was smart enough to be a Quant...

Just learn Math, pretty easy if you are a programmer and can think abstractly.

[doodab]

I work with quants. Quant do this, quant do that, quant do ******* anything. Useless bunch of quants!

[sasguru]

Just learn Math, pretty easy if you are a programmer and can think abstractly.

Many (most?) programmers are simply hackers who work by trial and error and rule of thumb.
These types of programmers are very poor at thinking abstractly; in fact I would go so far as to say they are worse than average, since they only see things in black-and-white (I was going to say binary but that wouldn't be quite right either) terms.
Plenty of examples on this forum.

[proggy]

Many (most?) programmers are simply hackers who work by trial and error and rule of thumb.
These types of programmers are very poor at thinking abstractly; in fact I would go so far as to say they are worse than average, since they only see things in black-and-white (I was going to say binary but that wouldn't be quite right either) terms.
Plenty of examples on this forum.

True, many programmers couldn't tell you what big O notation is, and have no idea how their "algorithms" might perform on different inputs.