Reading the QuantMinds 2026 programme as a map of modern quantitative and computational finance If one wanted to explain quantitative finance to an intelligent outsider twenty years ago, the answer would have been comparatively simple. Quants built mathematical models of financial markets. They calculated the...

Daniel Lemire is a software performance expert. He ranks among the top 2% of scientists globally (Stanford/Elsevier 2025) and is one of GitHub's top 1000 most followed developers. Recently he wrote a blog post entitled Discover...

The Long Pursuit of Speed in Finance How traders from the 18th century to today raced to get the edge In 1790, barely a year after the United States Constitution took effect, Representative James Jackson of Georgia rose in Congress to denounce a new breed of speculators. These men, he claimed, had chartered swift vessels to outrun official couriers, buying up government debt at a fraction of its value in anticipation of Alexander Hamilton’s plan to assume Revolutionary War obligations. Jackson thundered that ordinary citizens were being “plundered by harpies.” That colorful phrase, which gives Bob Pisani’s article its title (Financial History, Museum of American Finance, Fall 2014), captures a recurring anxiety...

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We develop a geometric theory of incentives that unifies...

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Daniel Lemire is a software performance expert. He ranks...