App SEO App SEO refers to the practice of optimizing your website to drive traffic to your app. It allows you to The high commission fees make generating organic sign-ups to your website even more critical. This can end up saving a company a lot of money in fees paid to the app stores over…
My 9th specialization certificate from Coursera
Machine Learning: Algorithms in the Real World Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute It is really an exciting journey! This specialization shows you a lot that you probably never imaged as an engineer. A successful machine learning project is far from the machine learning itself. You need to see farther, think bigger and experiment more. Machine learning…
My 122nd certificate from Coursera
Optimizing Machine Learning Performance Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute In the real world, the journey to a successful machine learning project does not start with cool ideas and technology. At least, there are thing way more important then “letting your servers crunch data and get results”. The first question is to ask: “As an organization, where…
Wholesale Money Markets: Repos and Eurodollars
Repo Market Repo (someone calls it RP) is an overnight collateralized loan, organized as a simultaneous sale and repurchase of a security. The person A, who borrowing money, is selling a security (say, treasure bill) to somebody B today and promising to buy it back tomorrow. Repo is collateralized in a sense on both sides:…
My 121st certificate from Coursera
Microsoft Azure Services and Lifecycles Microsoft Your journey to cloud is not always about technology. Try to think as a CEO or from the perspective of management, there are more greater challenges. This course will rewire your brain, and let you recognize the other side of the clouds. Engineers tend to pursue trends, and omit…
Azure Cloud Governance Strategy
Azure Identity Services With people increasingly able to work from anywhere, plus the rise of “bring your own device” strategies, mobile applications and cloud applications. Many of those access points are now outside the company’s physical networks. Identity has become the new primary security boundary. Accurately proving that someone is a valid user of your…
Advanced On-Page SEO Strategies
Applying Keyword Research Effective use of keywords is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal for increasing traffic to your website. Identifying the best keywords for your website involves a great deal of careful research and analysis. It’s important to be able to properly estimate competitiveness of a potential keyword. While we ended…
Federal Funds and Final Settlement
Recall the hierarchy of money, the Fed is sort of at the top, it can create this high powered money called reserves. From the point of view of the banks, reserves are money. Fed funds are NOT either the liability or the asset of the Fed, they’re the asset and the liability of banks. Federal…
My 120th certificate from Coursera
Object-Oriented Data Structures in C++ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hey programmers, what’s your favorite programming languages? I am not going to begin a debate, let’s brace diversity. However king of kings is till alive. Who? C++. Over 35+ years, C++ is still the most influential programming language. I have a print copy of the…
Post-Deployment of Machine Learning Models
Integrating Machine Learning Systems Issues arise from putting your machine learning model into a real life system. To actually make use of your model, you need a way to interact with it, which creates complications you can’t address simply by testing the model in isolation. Machine Learning is all about data. Each model in production…
Machine Learning: Readiness, Responsibility and Regulatory Concerns
Although many organizations recognize the importance of machine learning for making the most of their businesses, very few actually know how to get started. It is also required to develop a machine learning strategy for the business, moving beyond individual successes into a long-term growth plan. Machine learning impacts entire business from processes and staff…
Basics of Bonds, Stocks, and Dividends
Interest Rates Saving Accounts After the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, the current economic situation is rather different from the past, say 1980s. At that time, banks offered passbook savings account with a 7.4 per annum interest rate. Usually the service has a term in the fine print, for example the stated term is…
My #119 certificate from Coursera
Peer-to-Peer Protocols and Local Area NetworksUniversity of Colorado System The development of computer network has a long history, which probably deserves an “library” to record. Nowadays, in the age of software defined network (SDN) and cloud, the courses about classic network technology probably seem a little “old school”. That is not true, cutting edge technology…
Local Area Networks
Local area means private ownership. The distance between computers is usually below one kilometer, so it is the high speed and relatively error free communication with low cost. Therefore complex error-control is unnecessary. Each machine is given a unique MAC address. Within a local area network, routing is just broadcasting all messages to all machines…
Medium Access Control
Broadcast networks are of high bandwidth and low cost. All information will be sent to all users, no routing is really necessary in a broadcast network. Share media is the basis of broadcast networks, like radio over air, copper or coaxial cable. The key issue is: how to share the medium when there is a…