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Jay's avatar

Great story - did you ever look at or use Wolfram? I remember seeing a US quant fund in the early 00s had built their end to end systems on it and it looked amazing.

Abraham Thomas's avatar

We did. We found that Wolfram was good for exploratory research, but not the best solution for production -- not fast enough, APIs and straight-through integration not quite robust or customizable, and it was usually much simpler to just code things ourselves in C. (We weren't doing very complicated math, it was just matmult.)

Kris Abdelmessih's avatar

Thank you for this story!

Abraham Thomas's avatar

I had a feeling you would like it!

sriva's avatar

Abraham, thank you for sharing this, I had a goofy smile reading through all the technical details. Thank you.

The Pricing Committee's avatar

Wow 👏