Category: weekly

It’s almost Thanksgiving (tomorrow in fact) and I haven’t posted much (at all) since August. But I’ve still been reading and learning so here’s a quarterly recap.

Books I’ve read

Atlas Shrugged

My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (New Edition)

The Meaning Of It All: Thoughts Of A Citizen-scientist (Helix Books) by Richard P. Feynman (1998-03-31)

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Videos/Podcasts I’ve watched

New music I’ve discovered

Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper

Things have been busy with a work location move and training for an OCR event but I’m back.

Here’s a recap of the past two weeks:

Race Completed:
https://toughmudder.com/events/2017-long-island

Articles I’ve read:
http://www.dataschool.io/python-web-scraping-of-president-trumps-lies/

The Wolves in the Throne Room articles associated with the cover page

Wolves in the Throne Room Grace the Cover of Decibel’s September Issue

Courses I’m working on
Financial Engineering 2 on Coursera ( Weeks 3 and 4 completed)

Book I’m reading
Atlas Shrugged – Part 1 completed.

Article (and Project) I’ve read this week
Instagram Makes a Smooth Move to Python 3

Music Genre Classifier

Videos I’ve watched this week

Videos in my queue to watch

Courses I’ve worked on
Finished Finanicial Engineering 1 via Coursera
Completed Financial Engineering 2 Week 1 via Coursera
Completed Pandas exercises under Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp via Udemy

Articles I’ve read
The Quants Run Wall Street Now link

Connect 4 in 3 lines link

Videos I’ve watched

A good reminder that there are no game day players. All the hard work is done in practice.

Podcasts I’ve listened to

Here’s a quick recap of the past week

Articles I’ve read
Simpsons Detector

Parse 600 ETF Options

Metal Band Names via Neural Network

Tech Videos I’ve watched
Irene Chen A Beginner’s Guide to Deep Learning PyCon 2016

Nina Zakharenko – Memory Management in Python – The Basics – PyCon 2016

Van Lindberg Structured Data from Unstructured Text PyCon 2016

Podcast I’ve listened to
Joe Rogan Experience – Guy Richie

A fantastic discussion which highlights Guy’s mentality and aspiring ownership principles. “You must be the master of your own kingdom”

Courses or Books I’ve worked on
Coursera Financial Engineering and Risk Management Week 6
Accelerated C++ Chapter 12

Book I’ve started reading
How Champions Think by Dr. Bob Rotella