
Episode 176: 🇺🇸 prior, deltas & Dinner with Phineas
About this episode
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Phineas Porter about the functions delta, prior and more over dinner.
About the Guest:
Phineas Porter is a Software Developer at Jump Trading. Previously, he held roles in quant research and technology at UBS and Citibank. He graduated from Columbia University in 2014 with a degree in Operations Research. He lives in New York City with his wife, daughter (Ada) and son (Solomon).
Show Notes
Date Recorded: 2024-03-06
Date Released: 2024-04-05
- Franchia Vegan Cafe
- thurst::reduce_by_key
- thrust::inclusive_scan
- thurst::inclusive_scan_by_key
- KXCON23 | Nick Psaris | Matching Algorithms in q and kdb
- KXCON23 | Phineas Porter | Dynamic Programming Approach to Content Aware Image Resizing | kdb at Jump Trading
- thrust::reduce
- ADSP Episode 131: One Algorithm To Rule Them All!
- Q prior
- C++23 std::views::adjacent_transform
- C++98 std::adjacent_difference
- C++98 std::partial_sum
- C++17 std::variant
- Q deltas
- C++23 std::views::zip
- NumPy diffs
- ArrayCast Episode 76: Conor McCarthy, PyKX and kdb+ 4.1
- ADSP Episode 147: 🇸🇮 SRT23 - Parallel std::unique Revisited (on a Walk in Venice)
- The Two Egg Problem
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