I want to start learning quantitative finance, what articles or blogs should I look at to start?
Also see the Related Question on Quantitative Finance Books
I want to start learning quantitative finance, what articles or blogs should I look at to start?
Also see the Related Question on Quantitative Finance Books
Second Joshi guide but yout you can do better than that.
We have a list for all level, some of them are free to download (just like Joshi), others are books and websites that for beginner level
http://www.quantnet.com/master-reading-list-for-quants/
As for websites and blogs, there are only a handful of them out there (this is a niche field after all).
I run http://www.quantnet.com and I'm a member on http://wilmott.com as well as http://nuclearphynance.com. The Quant Finance group on LinkedIn is another popular destination.
Every site has a different flavor and attracts a fairly different audience. You have to sample them all, see the kind of questions asked there, the kind of members and how they answer.
WARNING: some sites are not very newbies friendly as they carter to the working professionals. As I said, it will take time to learn the in and out of each site.
Wilmott and NuclearPhynance are two fairly popular forums, although quant.stackexchange.com will hopefully serve as a better resource in the future.
Mark Joshi's advice - http://www.markjoshi.com/downloads/advice.pdf (On becoming a quant)
It's quite useful to get some insight into sorts of quantitative analysts, their repsonsibilites, type of companies, requirements for interviews etc ... just a great article to begin with.
Bionic Turtle's forums aren't bad. Some of it is aimed at the FRM (Financial Risk Manager) exam, but there's also a section dedicated to Quant Finance.