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Quantitative Finance with OCaml

46 points leonry 2 days ago 9 comments

abathologist 1 hour ago | parent

Who wrote this? I haven't been able to find an author yet, and the supposed source repo (https://github.com/quantitative-finance-with-ocaml as per https://qcaml.com/appendices/appendix-e-setup/ ) is a 404.

vrotaru 52 minutes ago | parent

Good observation. Also there is some funny stuff with what the book say referenced appendices do and what those actually explain

At the end of chapter 30 we have:

   Next: Appendix A — OCaml Setup and Tooling
But the after the chapter 30, follows the chapter 31, and Appendix A is called

    Appendix A: Ocaml Quick Reference
And the link is a dead link.

sudo_cowsay 1 hour ago | parent

This seems fun but... kinda sus....

duhhhhh1212 39 minutes ago | parent

https://www.pangram.com/history/4429c019-cdb9-4ce4-bd4d-2ff7...

This is just the first chapter but don’t expect anything different for the rest.

duhhhhh1212 36 minutes ago | parent

I wonder if the prompt was: “write a quantitative finance with ocaml book. Make no mistakes”

yawaramin 28 minutes ago | parent

Probably more like 'Here's a quantitative finance book, port over all the code to OCaml'

skyzoidbroczky 34 minutes ago | parent

Thanks for the link, the summary structure was the same as a handbook on quantitative finance that i had read briefly in the past and it confirmed the impression i got whilst consulting that website.

belfthrow 31 minutes ago | parent

A lot of this is completely wrong for their Java comparisons.

Hydraulix989 18 minutes ago | parent

It looks very AI-generated.