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Rogi Ocnorb
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Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 4266 Location: Where the cheese is free.
Is anyone familiar with ASQA and/or "QuantBase"?
http://www.asqa.org/content/view/17/1/
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:24 pm
redct
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Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 1233
Now THAT is particular... hmm. New site, looks like. Now that site is what I call filled out.
Has articles dating back to 2007 but it was only registered in Jan 2008.
QuantBase, as far as I know, is a made up system for this.
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 8:50 pm
ineffabelle
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Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 700 Location: Southern California
redct wrote:
Now THAT is particular... hmm. New site, looks like. Now that site is what I call filled out.
Has articles dating back to 2007 but it was only registered in Jan 2008.
QuantBase, as far as I know, is a made up system for this.
The site appears to have gone down in the last 30 minutes or so. Did we crash it? Oops!
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:10 pm
catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 4109 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
They seem to have cropped up recently...
Check out the comments section on this blog entry (January 27, 2008)
The hosting server is having issues, but you can find things in Google cache, such as two .pdf files. Some of the pages* also have login boxes.
Their "Jobs" pages links to other websites with the "ASQA 2008 Quant Award" seal of approval logo.
http://www.quantfinancejobs.com/
Additionally, the asqa.org website links to another site which feels related:
http://www.globalmf.org/
(edit to add) *Those pages requiring a login are entitled:
"Echelon Conference 2008 - Financial Engineering @ ASQA"
and
"Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending: Micro-Credit & Micro-Finance Disintermediation in 2008"
Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:30 pm
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redct
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I got a login at ASQA, so I can get those PW-protected pages when the site works (only intermittently).
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 9:52 pm
redct
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Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 1233
Finally got logged in, and...
"You are not authorized to view this resource."
Bah.
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 10:11 pm
mapmaker
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Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 608 Location: Providence, RI, USA
Just to clarify - while the quantfinancejobs.com site has a ASQA logo on it, and ASQA seems in-game, quantfinancejobs.com itself is NOT in-game, it seems - that site has a history of being real going back to 2005.
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:11 am
Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 4266 Location: Where the cheese is free.
Regarding the "IIT_Inventing the Future" site.
Be careful what you do, there. It seems to be a spidered copy of the real IIT.edu site and a lot of the links go to the RL site.
So, unless the entire faculty and student body is in on the game...
ETA: Well, I guess it could be a RL site for the school and not a copy.
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:18 am
catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 4109 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
Regarding the "IIT_Inventing the Future" site....
ETA: Well, I guess it could be a RL site for the school and not a copy.
mapmaker wrote:
Just to clarify - while the quantfinancejobs.com site has a ASQA logo on it, and ASQA seems in-game, quantfinancejobs.com itself is NOT in-game, it seems - that site has a history of being real going back to 2005.
Right, I didn't mean to say those were ingame sites. The IIT site is real, had a real seminar last year, and then ASQA came along and posted a comment in their blog. This establishes that ASQA has been active at least since January [meta]and probably wanted to seed a trailhead out in the real world.[/meta]
Same with QuantFinanceJobs, it's a real site, but ASQA has paid to put its own logo in their advertising corner. I haven't researched how long ago that might have been inserted into the site. I did try looking at the other 3 links ASQA has under their Jobs page, but I didn't see any more occurances of the ASQA seal logo.
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 2:30 am
Wireless
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Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 58
The ASQA site has been around for longer than a few months, it used to be .edu site but was migrated to .org
Reference:
http://www.asqa.org/content/view/13/55/
Quote:
Please note that the "public" migration to .org does NOT mean you need to re-register. Accounts have been created for you already (accounts which are already tied to your data sets, which, we assure you, are *safe and sound*). Please login to the old .edu frontend and check your user alerts for your new login credentials to ASQA.org.
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 4:39 am
mapmaker
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Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 608 Location: Providence, RI, USA
Wireless wrote:
The ASQA site has been around for longer than a few months, it used to be .edu site but was migrated to .org
Reference:
http://www.asqa.org/content/view/13/55/
Quote:
Please note that the "public" migration to .org does NOT mean you need to re-register. Accounts have been created for you already (accounts which are already tied to your data sets, which, we assure you, are *safe and sound*). Please login to the old .edu frontend and check your user alerts for your new login credentials to ASQA.org.
I mean, that's what the site says, but it isn't true. ASQA.org is linked from only two sites - highly, highly unlikely for something that is, you know, real . The "migration" is simply a reason for its odd WHOIS origin in game.
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 6:25 am
Agent Lex
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Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1188 Location: No longer London, still in England
Wait, I think I missed something here in my not being able to access the internet yesterday. How did we find this asqa.org?
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:44 am
Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 4266 Location: Where the cheese is free.
Agent Lex wrote:
Wait, I think I missed something here in my not being able to access the internet yesterday. How did we find this asqa.org?
Random Googling
Also...
In Game, Quantbase appears to be a construct of ASQA.
But, it is also a real product by Siemens Medical Syatems.
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 12:26 pm
Nighthawk
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Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 4751 Location: Miami, Florida, USA, Earth
Well, if ASQA is IG I guess we can put off any rumor that Microsoft is behind this... site's written in PHP.
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 1:37 pm
intersect
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Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 882 Location: Gainesville, FL
Did somebody move a whole bunch of posts from the original holomove thread into their own topics? Or am I just going crazy, because I thought the posts disappeared and spent like 20 minutes looking for them...
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 3:41 am
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