I'm unsure if this is true anymore? The ingredient list and information from their website seems to indicate that this is no longer an ingredient (although some of their products do use lanolin/beeswax)
They don’t really have to be losing in the long term, being short deep out-of-the-money puts nets you an option premium if the underlying never crashes, and once you delta-hedge that position, you can remove the tail risk from your portfolio
To be fair, this book definitely doesn’t start from first principles since UIUC requires several classes before 374 (the class which uses this book). UIUC splits the data structures material into another hands-on class, and introduces discrete math and preliminary ideas about algorithm analysis and proving correctness in another course.
On top of that, 374 only uses about half this textbook in conjunction with other notes about topics not covered in this book (mostly models of computation). The rest of the material in this textbook is used in 473, the elective advanced algorithms course.
That’s not to say that your experience isn’t valid, but within the context it is primarily used in, it’s a very good additional resource to lecture content, which is more than can be said of most textbooks
I'm not familiar with Grokking Algorithms, but fwiw the most important prereq at UIUC for 374 is 173, which also happens to have a free textbook[1] written by another UIUC professor, Margaret Fleck. I consider it to be a high quality introduction to discrete math and have good memories of her as a professor as well.
Compiler Explorer was used to teach some basics of compiler optimization in my computer architecture class a couple of years ago, but the About Me page was the first time I had heard about SWEs working in quantitative finance. I'm starting at a trading firm in a couple of weeks, so thank you Matt Godbolt for sending me down that particular rabbithole!
Enforcing the law becomes a lot harder when a community lacks trust in you, and kids who don't trust police officers turn into adults who don't trust police officers, and teach their children the same thing.
I’m going to chime in despite being a broke college student. I’ve been using ledger for about 2 years now, and daily reconciliation of what I actually spent is more helpful to me than having a budget, or anything else, it forces me to acknowledge how much I spent, and on what. Personally, it short circuits the easy swiping of plastic that leads to a ton of unnecessary spending, kinda like using cash.
Ledger has budgeting features, allows me to use multiple commodities (I even wrote a script to get stock prices and help ledger value them). I can’t comment on bigger things, but for my use case, I really enjoy it.
(setq gc-cons-threshold 100000000) (add-function :after after-focus-change-function 'garbage-collect)