Wednesday 11th August 2021 Quant Finance Algorithmic Challenge: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (CET) Q&A and online networking: 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (CET) This online challenge involves taking part in a live trading simulation game that will give you an insight into the world of quantitative finance. The event will be run by our […]
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Co-authors: Alex Scammon, Head of Open-Source Development, G-Research Celie Valentiny, Software Developer, G-Research Go sixty miles north of Brisbane, in Australia, and eventually you’ll come to the Shire of Maroochy, in Queensland. The quiet coastal town wouldn’t seem likely to be the epicentre for a new age in digital weaponry, but it was there where […]
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Many people interested in working for G-Research will know others in their network who could also be a great fit for us. Our new referral scheme, GRow, gives you the chance to refer candidates to G-Research in return for a potential £5,000 reward. If you know someone potentially right for one of our roles in […]
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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 (e.g. travel for those who are caring for children, or expenses for volunteer […]
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DSE’s previous post blog post concluded by illustrating some of the limitations of the TensorFlow library. The off-the-shelf package is a great tool for deep learning, but with large model sizes these limitations become increasingly noticeable and require custom matrix operations to be implemented in the C++ source code. Custom Op Motivations Recall that only […]
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TensorFlow is one of the most popular libraries in the modern Machine Learning ecosystem. It provides functionality for users to easily build, train and deploy deep learning models with its high-level Python API. At G-Research, we’re more than just users of TensorFlow. We require an understanding of its inner workings in order to support our […]
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UPDATE: Please be aware that this event’s date has been changed from Wednesday 7th July 2021 to Wednesday 14th July, 2021. All registrants have been informed by email. All event times and details will otherwise remain the same. Quant Finance Algorithmic Challenge: 6:00 pm – 8:15 pm (BST) Q&A and online networking: 8:15 pm – […]
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Marcin Krystianc, Senior Software Developer Robert Smith, Software Engineer The problem Historically, some of G-Research’s applications have been built on .NET and Windows. However, with the arrival of .NET Core and its excellent Linux support, G-Research began moving these applications to Kubernetes on Linux. Most .NET applications show similar performance on Windows and Linux. However, […]
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A rather little-known but very easy and high-reward way to sanity-check your property-based tests Patrick Stevens is a Developer at G-Research. Property-based testing is a great technique for getting the computer to do much of the drudgery when you’re writing tests. But it’s pretty easy to accidentally test much less than you thought. Here, we’ll […]
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--dry-run
Patrick Stevens is a Developer at G-Research. One part of my job as a software engineer is writing tools. Something I always want to see in a tool which does anything non-trivial is a --dry-run mode. To be able to know what you’re about to do, before you do it, is a great and wondrous […]
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