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  • A brief history of C

    Here is a chapter from Paul Bilokon’s forthcoming book on the C programming language. The history of the programming language C is inextricably linked to the history of UNIX, an […]

  • Interested in C++ and wondering which C++ programmer-influencers to pay particular attention to? Here is a list curated by the QDC faculty: C++ Language Creators & Standard Leaders Community Influencers […]

  • Modern C++

    For over a decade the term “modern C++” has been widely used by the C++ community to mean C++11 (the 2011 language standard) or later. Since that revision of the […]

  • In this work we’ll consider a particular true random number generator (TRNG): TrueRNG v3. This device is developed by the company ubld.it, manufacturers of some cool electronics. The TrueRNG Hardware […]

  • When people talk about randomness in quantitative development, they usually mean pseudorandomness. Pseudorandom refers to a sequence of numbers or data that appears random but is actually generated by a […]

  • We are pleased to announce that Thalesians Marine Ltd, a co-organizer of the Quantitative Developer Certificate (QDC), is fundraising for Centrepoint and is taking part in the Battersea Park Running […]

  • Introduction In this post we will consider the effect of various methods of parsing (date)time strings, and localizing and converting timezones in pandas DataFrames. We will be first and foremost […]

  • The understanding of cryptocurrencies and Blockchain implies at least a cursory familiarity with cryptography. In this short note we will consider some of the tools that you could use to […]

  • 2023 Quant of the Year

    We are delighted to announce that our Head of Faculty Dr Paul Alexander Bilokon has been proclaimed the 2023 Quant Of The Year, jointly with Marcos López de Prado, by […]

  • Vaex

    Are you looking for a faster alternative to pandas? Have a look at https://vaex.io/: a Python library for lazy Out-of-Core DataFrames. Vaex works with enormous tabular data, processes > 10^9 rows […]