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chrisaycock

9:30 PM

Welcome to the new Quant SE!

We're hoping to have a good start, so please ask insightful questions.

Michael Pryor

There still aren't any good questions up yet, but I guess its only been an hour.

At least the canonical 'book' and 'recommended sites' questions are out of the way.

balpha

9:51 PM

room topic changed to Quant: Discussion for quant.stackexchange.com

Shane

There are some reasonable questions at this point (IMO).

Michael Pryor

Which ones?

Shane

I could be missing something. The first two questions were crap. After that, most of the questions are certainly within scope.

Michael Pryor

Questions which work the best on SE are highly specific and have a correct answer (and usually aren't things you could find on wikipedia or another encyclopedia site)

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