There are 5 main indicators of investment risk that apply to the analysis of stocks, bonds and mutual fund portfolios. Alpha — if an investment strategy can beat the market. The higher the better. — 3% means the fund outperformed its benchmark index by 3% — measure of an investment’s…

Spark is a general-purpose distributed data processing engine Past: process a huge dataset or run computationally-expensive programs on one computer With Spark: tasks can be divided between multiple computers that communicate with each other to produce an output MapReduce: processing engine of Hadoop, optimizing tasks to be processed on multiple…

www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/01/understanding-using-rest-api/ medium.com/swlh/build-your-first-rest-api-with-django-rest-framework-e394e39a482c API=application programming interface=a set of rules on the server that allow programs to talk to each other and the client to talk to it Recent trend (Web 2.0) has been moving away from SOAP based web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) towards more direct REST style web resources…

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Course 1 from University of Toronto/Coursera 5 levels of automation: Level 1-riving assistance: Longitudinal control — go straight ahead OR Lateral control — change lane Level 2-partial driving automation: both longitudinal and lateral control Level 3-conditonal driving automation: + OEDR — event detection and response Level 4-high driving automation: Driver…

Exchange-trade markets: individuals trade standardized contracts that have been defines by the exchange. Eg: CME group Over-the-counter markets: two parties agree on a trade and present it to a central counterparty (CCP) or clear the trade bilaterally. Eg: banks, funds etc. Forward: buy or sell an asset at a certain…

Recently I took an online class on Coursera: The Science of Well-Being by Yale University. I usually won’t waste time to learn something like this. I know how to make myself happy, very simple, a lot of free time plus a lot of money. Yes, philistine! I clicked that link…