Into the Unknown
Python Essentials for MLOps Duke University You will learn a lot from this course: Python language itself, PyTest , Pandas, Numpy, a few Frameworks and Cloud APIs. I can not agree more that some many skills together are needed to succeed in an MLOps role. The course first covers basics of programming languages (like data…
Plan a Successful Freelancing Business California Institute of the Arts Believe it or not, we are in a recession. Many people lost there job, the future just seems so daunting. If you are having a lucrative gig right now, good luck, but it is never a bad idea to think about you next move and…
Think about Being a Freelancer Sometimes called a solopreneur, a freelancer is a type of entrepreneur who starts and runs a business for themselves. They’re hired by other people or other businesses to work on a contract basis. Rather than being permanently employed by one company, a freelancer can work for different companies at the…
Filling a knapsack is an NP-hard optimization problem, it is widely believed that in the worst case it takes exponential time to solve. One of the targets in optimization, is to try to delay the exponential growth as late as possible, so we can solve the real practical problems. Often it is impossible to find…
Origin of Federal Taxation The first income tax in the US was enacted in 1634 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The federal government however did not initially adopt this form of taxation; in part because it did not have the authority to do so. It was not until 1787 that Article 1 Section 8 Clause…
Fitting Statistical Models to Data with Python University of Michigan AI is combination of many different fields. Statistics definitely belongs to the group of the most fundamental ones. There are so many online courses, I never saw two courses that are teaching identical things. I can always learn something new. Before this course, I’ve never…
Logistic Regression Logistic regression is an extension to linear regression. When there are only only 2 options for the predicted values, like failed (0) or success (1), linear regression model is not appropriate. Instead, we will predict a transformed version of the probability of success. It is call the logit transformation where the logit function…
Economics of Money and Banking Columbia University This full-semester course is a masterpiece! It definitely will change the way how you see this world. Modern monetary system is way more complicated than you might expect. I spent about one year to complete this course, have written 13 posts, and there were so many times that…
Shadow banking is “money market funding of capital market lending”. Financial globalization and the revolution of modern finance are behind this. Shadow banking is a system has global funding, because it’s the global dollar money markets, of local lending, because the loans are originated for some local purpose. Very different from standard banking, prices are…
Interest Rate Swaps The interest rate swap come into being because of certain kinds of market imperfections that one borrower has access to low cost funding in their local area (for instance, because their government likes them) and no one else has access to that. And so they use that access as a source of…
Economy is coherent, it has structure to it. The discipline of the clearing constraint that forces people, whether they want to or not, to pay attention to their little place in the larger system. The money rate of interest is a symptom of the state of the larger system. There’s another way in which people…
Shadow banking refers to money market funding of capital market lending. We essentially need to extend the money view for the money market to the capital market, to the prices of risk. Traditionally, to most people, the bank’s balance sheet is like this. In the balance sheet, Capital is the FDIC solvency backstop, Reserves is…
Computer Communications University of Colorado System Don’t mention those complex networks in cloud, it is even a challenging task to design a good network at home for your various personal devices. Nowadays, it is not just your PC or laptop, your TV, your game console, even your refrigerator will claim its existence on the Internet….
TCP/IP and Advanced Topics University of Colorado System This course teaches the basics of TCP and IP protocols. First it focuses on IP packet, IP addressing, and subnetting technique. CIDR is something probably used everyday, but you might be not aware of its purpose that is to efficiently utilize IP address space. Then DHCP, NAT,…
Two transport layer protocols User Datagram Program (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) are built upon the best effort IP service. User Datagram Protocol (UDP) User Datagram Protocol is unreliable and connectionless, since there is no handshaking and no connection state. Beyond the Internet Protocol services, which know how to deliver a package to a…