Re: Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

2014-03-24 Thread TJB
On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 11:57:14 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 17:30:45 UTC, TJB wrote: On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 16:35:07 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote: This is a very interesting thread that you started. Could you flesh it out more with some example C++ that

Re: Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

2014-03-23 Thread TJB
On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 07:14:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/21/2014 3:33 PM, TJB wrote: I would be happy to help you with an option pricing example that is commonly used. Let me know if you are interested. Sure, please email it to me. Walter, I would be happy to. Where do I find

Re: Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

2014-03-22 Thread TJB
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 23:27:18 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote: The work Don's company does has very similar requirements to HFT. His talks here are totally relevant to the use of D in this area. Yes, I'm very much looking forward to that talk as well. His talk last year killed!

Re: Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

2014-03-22 Thread TJB
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 16:35:07 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote: This is a very interesting thread that you started. Could you flesh it out more with some example C++ that you'd like compared to D? I'm sure quite a few people would assist with a translation. Well, right away people jumped to

Re: Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

2014-03-22 Thread TJB
days then? Just curious. TJB

Re: Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

2014-03-21 Thread TJB
On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 00:14:11 UTC, Daniel Davidson wrote: On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 21:14:15 UTC, TJB wrote: Walter, I see that you will be discussing "High Performance Code Using D" at the 2014 DConf. This will be a very welcomed topic for many of us. I am a Finance

Re: Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

2014-03-21 Thread TJB
On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 22:28:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/21/2014 2:14 PM, TJB wrote: I see that you will be discussing "High Performance Code Using D" at the 2014 DConf. This will be a very welcomed topic for many of us. I am a Finance Professor. I currently teach and d

Re: Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

2014-03-21 Thread TJB
On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 21:39:54 UTC, w0rp wrote: On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 21:30:29 UTC, Joakim wrote: Heh, right before I read this, I stumbled across this snippet from Miguel De Icaza's blog from a couple months back, where he regretted using C++ to build Moonlight, their Silverlight

Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

2014-03-21 Thread TJB
(say Monte Carlo options pricing) examples? If you can get the finance industry interested in D you might see a massive adoption of the language. Many are desperate for an alternative to C++ in that space. Just a thought. Best, TJB

How feasible to wrap Nvidia Toolkit for CUDA Programming

2012-08-16 Thread TJB
aries for this purpose? They are written in C, so is it pretty straight forward? I do not have in mind running D code directly on the GPU cores, but having D call out to C code to do so. Is it possible? Feasible? Are there already codes to do this somewhere? Thanks for your insights! TJB

Re: Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

2012-08-13 Thread TJB
ile? Thanks, TJB

Re: Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

2012-08-12 Thread TJB
m in my write up. I think they offer great possibilities for econometrics in D. TJB

Re: Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

2012-08-11 Thread TJB
s and your TDPL book. Probably the best programming book I've ever read! TJB

Re: Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

2012-08-10 Thread TJB
On Friday, 10 August 2012 at 22:11:23 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/10/2012 8:31 AM, TJB wrote: On Thursday, 9 August 2012 at 18:35:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/9/2012 10:40 AM, dsimcha wrote: I'd emphasize the following: I'd like to add to that: 1. Proper support for 80 bi

Re: Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

2012-08-10 Thread TJB
rewritten in pure D rather than calling out to external C or Fortran codes? TJB

Which D features to emphasize for academic review article

2012-08-09 Thread TJB
am going to write about, but I thought I would ask here what features are most relevant (in your minds) to numerical programmers writing codes for statistical inference. I look forward to your suggestions. Thanks, TJB