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What level of questions are appropriate for "Quantitative Finance"?
While I agree with the overall gist of previous answers here, that anything that a simple Google search can reveal the answer to should not be asked here, I believe there are a number of topics for wh …
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What do we do about undegrad-level homework questions?
Judging by some previous meta questions, this is probably not in scope. Anyone disagree? …
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Scope and Participants of Quant SE
Looking at the questions that you've asked thus far, I have to admit that they are close to the edge of the scope of the site, but acceptable in the end (particularly after some editing), and I did up-vote …
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Interview questions
It's not on topic. Read the FAQ:
To prevent your question from being flagged and possibly removed,
avoid asking subjective questions where …
every answer is equally valid: “What’s your …
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Are questions about "being a quant" in scope?
The original Stack Overflow is dedicated to actual programming questions, whereas questions about "being a programmer" are meant for Programmers. However, since I do not foresee this site growing to t …
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Are questions about the history of quantitative finance in scope?
Prompted by this question:
What is the origin of the words “put” and “call” that characterize derivatives?
The following questions, posted by a moderator, seems to have gotten a relatively warm …
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How quantitative should the questions be?
There is, I believe, a misunderstanding of the question implicit in your meta post. The questioner does not seem to want/need to know the methodology behind computing the weights. Rather, he wants h …
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Has the tolerance for the type of question been changed?
The job of the moderators is to close down the egregious off-topic questions and to guide new users towards asking the right kinds of questions or asking them with the right level of "expert" sophisti …
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Do we need to raise our standards on what is an acceptable question?
Joel Spolsky mentions in podcast #30 that he has asked true experts in quantitative finance what they think about this site, and they tell him that the questions are all "really beginner questions" an …
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Are programming questions involving quantitative finance libraries in scope?
The following question, using quantlib function in my c++ program, asks about the usage of a popular quantitative finance library, QuantLib, but the question itself does not relate to quantitative fin …
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Are programming questions involving quantitative finance libraries in scope?
This question is not in scope. …
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