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• 10 Jun 2021

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 – […]

• 10 Jun 2021

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, […]

• 27 May 2021

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 […]

• 21 May 2021

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 […]

• 10 May 2021

Neo4J is one of the most popular graph databases in the world. If you explore the space you very quickly discover that many different graph databases exist, spanning from basic single machine triplestores like Apache Jena TDB to horizontally scalable graph databases such as Janus or DGraph and far too many others to list here, […]

• 06 May 2021

Wednesday 16th June 2021 Quant Finance Algorithmic Challenge: 6:00 pm – 8:15 pm (CEST) Q&A and online networking: 8:15 pm – 10:00 pm (CEST) 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 […]

• 03 May 2021

Itamar Turner-Trauring, from our Open-Source Team, looks at ways to speed up string processing in Python Imagine you have a Pandas DataFrame with a 100 million rows and a column of strings you want to manipulate. Python’s string library is quite fast, but processing 100 million strings can add up. This was the problem faced […]

• 29 Apr 2021

Please see below for the terms and conditions for participating in our grant programme: The grant may be used only for the purposes outlined in your application. Your application must be true and accurate. You may submit no more than one application per month and, in aggregate, no more than two applications in any calendar […]

• 27 Apr 2021

Are you a PhD student or postdoc in a quantitative discipline?  Do you need support funding something that will assist your research?  If so, we can help. Every month we give away £2,000 in grant money to early career researchers – and are especially interested in applications that are difficult to get funding for elsewhere […]