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student of finance and software engineering

Cape Town, South Africa
Joined May 2017
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“The beauty of the truth; whether it is good or bad, it is liberating.” ~Paulo Coelho
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South Africa has been placed under increased monitoring/greylisted. When Financial Action Task Force places a jurisdiction under increased monitoring, it means the country has committed to resolve swiftly the identified strategic deficiencies within agreed timeframes. [Thread]
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I started my career in Data Science back in 2016 ⏳ Some great Books that have helped me during this journey! 📚 A Thread 🧵👇
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“Bloom wherever you are planted” - you need no one’s permission to do so #Blessings🌼🕊
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Level up your Developer skills: 📁 Frontend ∟‍🎨 HTML + CSS ∟‍💻 JavaScript ∟‍👥 Git/GitHub ∟‍ 📡API 📁 Framework ∟‍🌟 React/Vue/Svelte/Angular ∟‍🌈 Tailwind CSS/Bootstrap 📁 Backend ∟‍🚀 Python/Node/PHP ∟‍📊 Postgres/Mongo/MySQL 🙌 Land that dream job 💵
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a web experiment by Vicente Lucendo, made possible with Web GL source: summer-afternoon.vlucendo.co…
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Another great new book I just received from @PacktPublishing >> "Quantum #MachineLearning and Optimization in #Finance" (391 pages): amzn.to/3g9vkh1 ——— #BigData #DataScience #NeuralNetworks #AI #QuantumComputing #CompuationalScience
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Best of 2022: Chickens coming home to roost? Pfizer exec admits Covid-19 vaccine wasn’t even tested to see if it would prevent transmission dlvr.it/SgHs2S
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A challenge that every graduate student faces: how to read difficult research articles. Here's how to understand research articles better using an AI-powered app (no cheating although it may feel like it 😀):
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Science needs a huge reset starting with abolishing the peer review system. experimentalhistory.substack…
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Fascinating reading on #GameTheory: amzn.to/2T70A1y "A Nontechnical Intro to the Analysis of Strategy" (3rd Ed.), covers N-person strategies, Nash Equilibria, dominant strategies, #BehavioralEconomics, #ExperimentalEconomics, auctions, bargaining, etc. ——— #Gamification
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At McKinsey, we charged $400k+ per presentation. Here’s the simple 7-step framework we used (steal it for free)🧵:
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“The beauty of the truth; whether it is good or bad, it is liberating.” ~Paulo Coelho
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Began to read this interesting book by expert @lopezdeprado: 22 chapters in 5 parts (last part dealing with HPC) with many code snippets in Python: wiley.com/en-us/Advances+in+…
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Some nice books on information theory, classical or quantum information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform…
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An excellent concise book on convexity including generalizations of ordinary convexity to comparative convexity using generic means. Used to define generalized Bregman divergences: tinyurl.com/BregmanJensenCC
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