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It is important that you follow a specific strategy when it comes to drafting your statement of purpose.You would want your statement of purpose to sound brilliant, and original. And for that, you’ll need some strategies.1. Write Stories. Not StatementsIf given a choice, would you prefer reading a novel or a newspaper? A novel, without a doubt. Do you know why? Because while a newspaper gives you mere news and some eye-catching headlines, a novel tells you a story; a beautifully written piece of literature that you will be emotionally connected to. It brings those humanly feelings out of you, and involves you in its story line. You imagine yourself in place of the narrator/character, and understand why he/she has done that, or taken such decisions. We remember stories much easier than statements. Because stories connect to us, statements don’t.2. Quantify Your StoriesEven though we asked you to write a story, you will have to remember that your story should not read like a thesis. It should rather serve as the best source of information about you. And when it comes to information, numbers play a key role. Your story should be not only qualitative, but also quantitative. Which means, your story must contain measurable quantities instead of just stories, so the reader can understand the depth of it.3. Be SpecificYou have to make sure that whatever you say on your statement of purpose, you need to be very specific with it. Don’t just say something because you think it will impress the admissions committee. Whatever you say, you have to really dig into details. Be introspective. Don’t just say “I chose this degree because I love this field.” Explain clearly why you love this field, what made you decide that you want to work in this field for the rest of your life, what skills you are trying to amass, why it completes you as a person, etc.Don’t beat around the bush like you normally would, when you talk to your friends. Don’t use ideal sentences like ‘I want to change the world’ or ‘I want to find my inner self’ or any of chose cheesy lines. Just be straightforward and always to the point, but not so much as to come off as arrogant. Find your reasons and then find a nice, memorable way to say it.4. Customize Your EssayOne of the biggest mistakes students make is to prepare a basic template for their statement of purpose, and if they are applying to more than one university, they simply change the relevant names and details. But the rest of the statement is an exact copy. This is never a good idea, because though they might seem quite similar to each other, every university is vastly different from the others. Each of them has a diverse set of characteristics that define them, and their cultures, methodologies, visions, values, mottos, strengths, weaknesses, etc.,5. Use a Formal But Conversational Tone6. Decide How You Want To Portray Yourself. And Learn How to Portray Indirectly.You must see that the statement of purpose serves as a medium to convey your attitude, your personality and your character. Alright, those are some heavy words, and it can actually be difficult to them on paper. So, what you can do is, learn what your statement of purpose should portray you as, in terms of a few criteria, which tell the admissions committee that you are:Very passionate about the field of study you have chosen.An Intelligent student who can withstand the academic workload of a graduate program.Well-prepared academically and personally, and eager to study new courses.Able to take on the challenges of studying at an international graduate school.Able to build and maintain a good rapport with professors and fellow grad students.Able to finish the graduate degree within time, and graduate with a good percentage.A potential remarkable representative of that grad school in your future career.A successful alumni of the grad school who in the future can help in recruiting graduates.A responsible alumni who in the future will help raise funds for the grad school, to spend on research, infrastructure, facilities, student scholarships, etc.7. Don’t Create Stories. Be Yourself8. Address Your Problems9.Do Your HomeworkHope this HELPS!ALL the BEST!!!!

To start you off: you may want to pay attention to your terminology. Most people won't be as pedantic about this, but high-performance often relates to high throughput or amount of work completed. Latency and throughput might appear to be positively correlated concepts, but they're literally fighting each other in the computing world. Processor scheduling is typically worked out by balancing the latency versus throughput trade-off (though keep in mind they're technically orthogonal concepts).Why's the above important to your question? You need to understand the problem before the solution. The difference between the two terms are pretty much the foundation of building low-latency systems. To improve throughput, you want your processors to run as fast as possible. This means they just want to keep on running as fast as they can (minimize context switching and optimizing for cache). Low-latency means that the process needs to always be ready to process input (while potentially sacrificing actual work completed - or throughput).Assuming your question is referring to HFT, the above should help shed some light on the problem you're trying to solve with C and C++: to minimize I/O latency - that is, you want to produce an output (order execution) as quickly as the input (market data) comes. So here are some fun ways to speed up I/O starting from your system to C and C++:1. Minimize latency on your network (I know this isn't C or C++, but it's coming). Typically, network latency is one of the most major bottlenecks. You need to grab the shortest network cable with the highest bandwidth on the fastest network card (10-Gs typically).2. Remove data copies and context switches (basically keep off the kernel). The cards mentioned above should support kernel bypassing to allow packets to skip kernel processing. (I promise the C and C++ parts are coming)3. Once you receive this data, you want to optimize the kernel scheduler to place a priority on always doing the I/O over processor (Completely Fair Scheduler might be too general of a scheduler in specialized HFT cases).4. Finally, C and C++: once you get the input, you want to do as little work as possible at run-time. How's that done? In C, macros/pre-processor directives. In C++, template metaprogramming is common. Prefer CRTP over dynamic polymorphism whenever possible. Avoid function pointers unless you're working them through templates to maximize inlining. Use expression templates to build your structures for computation whenever possible.5. Avoid any memory allocations whenever possible. There should be a very limited number of allocations. If anything, learn to use arenas/memory pools with placement new. This avoids the overhead of having to allocate memory without needing to rewrite malloc yourself. Avoid shared_ptrs unless you absolutely need them. The reference counter can cause a lot of latency if not used extremely carefully.6. Prefer undefined behavior over safety where appropriate. Safety checks can be very expensive when you're pushing into the sub-microsecond level.7. Take advantage of your cache. The difference between the cache levels and memory are orders of magnitudes. You want your program to be cache-ready whenever possible. Prefer contiguous blocks of memory over spread memory (similar to prefer to vectors vs linked lists). This also means prefer vectors over unordered_maps/maps/sets/unordered_sets on small data sets. The hash/binary traversal can very easily surpass the cache access of vectors. This means that O(N) can very often exceed the speed of O(1) or (log N) on small sets. I see people abusing sets and unordered_sets a lot, but many at times, searching a vector linearly is significantly faster than constant or logarithmic time due to the cache.8. Work with an entirely systematic approach. Do not ever assume what most C++ developers assume. One huge one is RVO/NRVO. You don't want your compiler determining when your string (or other object) is copied without you knowing. Disassemble your code and make sure your hypothesis is correct. Be explicit and work with move operations and references whenever you can.9. Take note of struct padding. The difference between swapping the order of a large data type and a small one can be massive. In many cases, the compiler will not optimize this for you. You should always be wary about the order of how you declare your structs/classes. The typical order is large to smallest, but you may also need to keep in mind false sharing if you're working in a multi-threaded environment. Prepare some empty char arrays to buffer out your cache lines if you are.10. Take note of your switch statements. If your cases are very far apart without much pattern, there's a chance it's not going to run through a normal jump table. This means two things: (1.) take note of the order of your case statements and (2.) try to minimize the indices of the cases if at all possible. Don't go around enumerating A = 0, B = 1, C = 20, D = 500, E = 9999 if you can avoid it if you plan on throwing it into a case.11. Avoid branches and table lookups. For example, example, using virtual functions and layers of nested ifs will cause a certain degree of cache misses (and extraneous pipeline clearances).12. Take advantage of compiler builtins like __expected and __prefetch (there's way more to experiment with). Again, these are options normally taken well after your C and C++ code has been optimized. They require tons of benchmarking.13. Know what your compiler and linker is doing - don't just be the typical C++ developer that assumes -O2 will do everything. Know which unsafe optimizations can be used safely in your code, and know which and what O2/O3 optimizations may actually slow down your code. This will require tons of bench marking, but it's important to understand your build library.To summarize, don't assume anything. The above doesn't even get near showing the tip of the iceberg. The only way to know the "tricks" is to learn exactly what's going on. Don't just use streams because they're convenient - learn how they're implemented in your context. This gets easier over time since you get a baseline. If you ever moved from Linux to BSD, for example, you could compare the properties and understand with little to no effort how to optimize your code for the environment.By the way, I tried to cover as much as I could in a reasonable time, so I didn't cite any sources. Please feel free to Google anything up and comment if there's anything that needs explanation or correction. Also, the above is written for those that believe the algorithms used for their systems are already at an optimal state.Edit: Didn't realized I typed this much. I'm going to section this answer.

I find this article by Greg Hoy (Happy Cog) very useful: Agreements = ExpectationsQuoting:A SOW [...] typically addresses such things as:Requested Services—Describing what the project actually is.Project Phase Descriptions—Detailing how many phases, and what goes into them.Project Duration and Milestones—Estimating how long the project will take and what milestones occur along the way.Resource Hours—How many hours are allocated to each phase.Billing Rates—What you’re charging for each practitioner in your company.Proposed Tasks & Deliverables—What you’ll do and deliver, and when.Commencement and Completion Dates—When you’ll start, and if all goes well, when you’ll finish.Service Fees—How much you’re charging for the entire engagement.Payment Schedule and Terms—How much you’ll get paid, and when.Listing of Representatives—Who the primary players are on each side, or at least what their roles are.Some people "recycle" the contents of the proposals in the SOW. Some people try to be very specific, some people prefer to be vague. The best approach really depends on the type of project and the way you work. A general rule is: always use in connection with a solid MSA (Master Service Agreement, for example: Standard Master Agreement for Design Services) and try to make sure those documents don't contradict each other.