Re: Well! There is a third way!
I like CPU power to allow me to be lazy.
Like when working out a formulae to match the PQ graph in my approximator, I could programme something to do clever matrix manipulations.
Instead, I do lazy matrix manipulations and brute force my way to a solution.
It can take several minutes!
At work we still don't have enough grunt to do what we want. Just doing the ETL and calc of NPV and VAR for the swaps in my "pissy little bank in a backwater of the pacific ocean" takes hours and hours. More POWWWEERRR!!!
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