Introduction Everywhere I have ever worked (I am mainly talking about the standard sell side Wholesale / Investment banks) use Excel & VBA for their prototypes and any desk based development. While lots of time, […]
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CALCULATE PI USING MONTECARLO SIMULATION – PHASE III – aka "Multicarlo"
Introduction After Phase II, we discovered that Numpy wasn’t going to help. Also, getting a half way decent approximation of Pi was going to take millions of paths / attempts. So on a slimmed down […]
CALCULATE PI USING MONTECARLO SIMULATION – PHASE II
Context Carrying on from Phase I, I wanted to see how I could take the initial answer and make it more efficient. The first port of call then is… how expensive is it at the […]
Calculate Pi using MonteCarlo Simulation – Phase I
Context I was interviewing for a Python developer role in an Investment bank, and a nice enough but over zealous quant started asking me silly questions. You know the sort. However in this case I […]
Google Music Takeout – Track Data
I always find working through a text book that it gets quite dry, and I struggle to maintain interest as the project or subject matter is too esoteric. So, armed with a little python, StackOverflow […]
