cppyy is an automatic, run-time, Python-C++ bindings generator, for calling C++ from Python and Python from C++. Run-time generation enables detailed specialization for higher performance, lazy loading for reduced memory use in large scale projects, Pytho... (more…)

Tweet Share Share Iterated Local Search is a stochastic global optimization algorithm. It involves the repeated using of a local search algorithm to modified versions... (more…)

Dropbox, to our customers, needs to be a reliable and responsive service. As a company, we’ve had to scale constantly since our start, today serving more than 700M registered users in every time zone on the planet who generate at least 300,000 requests pe... (more…)

One of the many allures of Twitter is that you can tweet at your favorite celebrity and (maybe) get a response. Still though, tweeting isn’t quite as intimate as trading text messages. So we thought it’d be fun to use Markov Chains, Programmable SMS, and ... (more…)

What does it take to become a software engineer for a hedge fund? Is there any point in teaching yourself how to code? Do you need to go to university?