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• 30 May 2022

Running from November 2021 to May 2022, the G-Research Crypto Forecasting Competition was our first foray into sponsoring a Kaggle competition. As a business that, at its core, develops trading strategies from data and modelling, there is a natural overlap between our day-to-day work and the world of Kaggle. Indeed, we have our own internal […]

• 27 May 2022

Written by Marcin Krystianc, Open-Source Software Developer In one of our previous NuGet posts about central package version management, we outlined that for some solutions the restore operation was slow. We decided to delve a little deeper and see whether optimising NuGet could make the restore function go faster. How it started Our investigation started […]

• 13 May 2022

We’re excited to announce Dr Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) as the latest speaker in the G-Research Distinguished Speaker Series. Register your interest to attend this in-person event Dr Mack is a leading Theoretical Astrophysicist and Assistant Professor of Physics at North Carolina State University. Her studies cover a wide range of questions in cosmology but she […]

• 29 Apr 2022

Written by Marcin Krystianc, Open-Source Software Developer When it comes to installing a lot of code quickly, developers in the .NET ecosystem tend to turn to NuGet to help their cause. Since the NuGet package manager came on the scene, it has become something of an industry standard for Microsoft-related projects. Paket exists, but NuGet […]

• 22 Apr 2022

• 30 Mar 2022

Written by Tim Boudreau, Open Source Software Engineer, G-Research Marc Andreessen famously quipped that “software is eating the world,” but it’s becoming increasingly apparent that it’s actually open source software that’s eating the world. And people, as well as the companies they work for, are working to make the adjustment, accommodating new ways of writing […]

• 28 Mar 2022

Each month, we provide up to £2,000 in grant money to early career researchers in quantitative disciplines. Our aim is to support and assist PhD students and postdocs conducting research, particularly with costs that may be difficult to get funding for elsewhere, for example, travel for those who are caring for children, or expenses for […]

• 24 Mar 2022

The increasing size and training time of neural network models has lead to increasing reliance on specialised hardware. GPUs are one of many high throughput devices designed to perform massively parallel operations such as large matrix multiplications which form the backbone of machine learning. Despite the high cost, GPU training is significantly faster than CPU […]

• 21 Mar 2022

Last month, Wes McKinney, creator (and benevolent dictator for life) of the Python Pandas project did a talk covering his work on Apache Arrow, an open source, multi-language developer framework for accelerating tabular data access and in-memory processing. Guillaume Rame, a Software Engineer at G-Research, gives us an insight into the value of the talk […]