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btw, what is "a modicum" or programming ability. i can program in matlab to test and develop, but can't bring the model live so to speak (i.e. pull data from somewhere and put it somewhere else)

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how difficult it is to move from research to production depends in large part on how good the systems are that are in place at a given firm and how good their IT staff is. I would imagine that the smaller and newer the fund, the more a quant would have to know about databases and such to be able to do their job effectively.