Docker is the app-ware for your computers that are not a smartphone. — At The Beginning You have programmed for a few years and have cluttered up your sandbox, your local development machine, with downloads of many different libraries, frameworks, and maybe a virus or two. The above described my life in 2008. The arduous tasks below detail the giant PIA (you are on your own…

MLOps = DevOps + DataOps+ MLLabOps + MLProdOps + DSOps — I was taught to transform a complex problem into a simpler problem, by dividing the problem into smaller sub-problems. I made the process paradigm of Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) simpler by dividing it into five different, but overlapping process groups or Operations (Ops) groups. What Does MLOps mean to me? MLOps is automating the Machine Learning…

Let’s expand the definition of refactoring to include new functionalities — Different Kind of Refactoring I plan to increase stability and performance and to decrease the cost of maintenance in the Photonai code base. I add clustering functionality to the original code base and change the architecture. A small code refactoring task is usually fixing bugs. …

Let’s discuss why type hinting techniques and tools improve your Python code — Overview of Type Hints or Type Annotations Python is a dynamically typed language. However, starting with Python 3.5 (PEP 484), type hints were introduced. Type hints (note: not strong type checking) make it possible, post coding of Python, to do static type checking of code. Here’s a great figure showing the evolution of Python type hinting:

A step-by-step approach for finding and analyzing the returns of a market-exchange asset — Disclaimer: the following content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Do not take any decisions based solely on my writing. I need a method to measure the returns of a market-exchange asset. Using the return trend-line, I competitively compare assets. …

Twelve tips that guide my investments and spending. Investment Tip #1 Learn from your mistakes. Investment Tip #2 Invest in a stock exchange ETF not a indivual stock. An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of pooled investment security that operates much like a mutual fund. ETFs can be purchased or sold on a stock exchange…

This house pays out 9% per year. However, the world's largest casino yielded +9% per year over the last 100+ years of business. Billions of dollars are bet every business day. And why not? "It is a sure thing." The name of the biggest and best casino in the entire…

Portfolio managers, I hope they do not as die off, as they are the bedrock of indexes. Disclaimer: the following content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Do not take any decisions based solely on my writing. You often hear advice to diversify your holdings…

I briefly reminisce about the violent birth of indexes and performance attribution at a firm I worked. What is an Index? Indexes, in 2022, are defined by a shortlist of properties: Based on a strategy or algorithm of weights of investment instruments for a market or sector; Aligns directly to the risks involved with…