u/BigClout00

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So, I've been interested in learning "Arabic" for a while. After doing some research, it seems very clear to me that effectively "Arabic" is about as much of language in and of itself as "Chinese", if not less. So, I've of course had to try to make the decision as to what I should learn. It's hard to say what's more useful, so I kinda disregarded that criterion entirely. I'm going with the dialect that has the most cultural significance to me, which is Omani Arabic as I have East African heritage and am looking to learn Swahili as well, so it'd be helpful to learn two languages that have a large vocabulary overlap. I've heard the Khaliji dialects are the most similar to MSA, and Omani specifically is one of the closest to Classical and Quranic Arabic which is nice because I'm hoping to read the Qu'ran one day.

My question is though, how well can I use that Omani Arabic across the Arab world. To ask more directly, would somebody say Omani Arabic is about as similar to the other Gulf/Peninsular dialects as European and Brazilian Portuguese are to each other? I know they're "highly mutually intelligible" but that kinda doesn't really mean anything to me. I want to know who I would be able to speak normally and be completely understood in like 95% of everyday situations.

So the Carr-Madan paper is quite old at this point, but I've rarely, if ever, heard of any of the large banks using these sorts of techniques to actually price derivatives, structured products (I wonder if they could be used for rates products? I don't see why not) and the like in production. I would have thought they'd be a very popular innovation given the computational saving, but I only ever hear of the usual numerical techniques (FDM, Monte Carlo etc.). Does anyone know if they're used? Which banks, if you don't mind sharing? If not, why not? I don't really see a down side aside from actually having to derive the forward transform of your payoff and underlying process yourself for each non-standard product, which I guess could make development longer compared to Monte Carlo where you pretty much know what you need to simulate straight away and so going from concept to working code is probably relatively quick as there's no derivation step in between (I imagine). I wouldn't even imagine this is a probably for pricing well-known classes of derivatives like vanilla options and the popular exotics.

Out of curiosity, who do you guys think posts the most ghost jobs in the industry?

My vote is DB. If the number of jobs they posted for quant roles is to be believed, these jobs must have like a 40% turnover rate because there's a new one almost everyday and they're basically all the same job post. There's no way even half of these roles are being filled.

Out of curiosity, who do you guys think posts the most ghost jobs in the industry?

My vote is DB. If the number of jobs they posted for quant roles is to be believed, these jobs must have like a 40% turnover rate because there's a new one almost everyday and they're basically all the same job post. There's no way even half of these roles are being filled.

I’ve interviewed for a role with a bank. Now, I see another role I also like at the same bank. Obvs I’d like to be considered for both roles just to spread my bets (it’s not like I’m unhappy with the one I’m already interviewing for), but would HR just see that and go “yeah nope you only get one shot buddy”? I know that happens with grad roles but this isn’t a grad role.

Just trying to get a picture. If someone could give me ranges from analyst up to MD that would be great, but info for any info on a specific corporate title would be helpful.

So I was watching a GameRanx video which talked about the longest single player games ever. For each game it had a main story time, main + side time and completionist time. Out of curiosity, I went to the website they were using for their data and pulled up DMC5, and the results were surprising imho.

So the Main Story time was like 11hrs, and I think that's completely reasonable, perhaps even a bit long for the average player (i.e.: someone who's beaten DMC3 and/or DMC4 before, as they're all pretty similar gameplay wise and have quite a few overlapping enemy designs). Main + Side was 17hrs, which again seemed reasonable because some of those secret missions can take a while to find. But then the Completionist time was an average of 77.5hrs? To me that seems really short no, at least if we're thinking about "completionist" as meaning the platinum trophy. Maybe I suck at the game but I feel like 100hrs or more on average is more reasonable, even for someone who is familiar with this type of game. Personally, while I'm familiar with DMC, DMC5 was the first DMC game I ever played start to finish and I hadn't played 3 or 4 in around 10 years at that point, now I think I'm almost 300hrs in and I'm not even near the platinum trophy (main issue is S-ranking DMD and I keep taking long breaks so it feels like I'm starting all over again skill-wise).

Maybe I just suck though. I just wanted to get an idea of the times that you guys have for the platinum trophy, roughly speaking).