Let’s find the top 10 quants ranked by Google. We start with a list of quants on Wikipedia and then google their name with additional key word “quant”. Then they are ranked by number of results returned by google search.

Recently I have completed Reinforcement Learning Explained by Microsoft on edX (DAT257x). Overall I had a very good learning experience. Here I would like to share what I have learned and some comments about the course.

Mathematical biostatistics camp is an online course on Coursera taught by Brian Caffo. It’s a good introduction to the field. I highly recommend it for for newcomers. However, it only scratches the surface of many important and deep topics. Luckily, Brian gave several references to learn more about the subjects and he has also been actively putting materials and courses online. On courera, there are only multi-choice quiz after each lecture. The good part is that those are freely available for those who don’t want to pay for certificates. It would be more helpful if there are more challenging problems or programming assignments. I summarized below some interesting or useful things Brian brought up throughout the course.