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  • When the Dark Knight rises profound human behavior questions

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    Good evening everybody, I decided to take a few minutes to write this post as I witnessed today two incredible things as I went to the Swiss premiere of “Batman: The Dark Knight Rises”. First of all, the movie itself; it’s astonishing. I really liked it. I don’t usually go to the theater to watch movies…

  • Why should we use functional programming: a simple example

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    Good evening, I’m just taking the time to add more content on functional programming. When I talk about this paradigm with programmers who haven’t had the time to work with it, they always tell me that the code is difficult to understand and that it would be difficult to maintain. I would like to show…

  • CFA Level I: that was it.

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    Hi everybody, I finally took the Level I exam of the CFA curriculum yesterday. I take the opportunity to express my feelings about how my studies went and what my feelings were about the actual exam. As a matter of fact, I cannot disclose any of the specific questions I (and the other candidates) encountered…

  • CFA Level I: DuPont Analysis

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    Hello again, Back to reality after the events of last week in the Premier League and last night in the Champions League with some … accounting, in a sense. The CFA Level I curriculum has a lot of question about ratios and a lot of questions ask how the return on equity ROE is affected…

  • CFA Level I: Hypothesis Testing

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    Good evening, As I keep practicing towards the Level I exam, I want to finish my review of the  Quantitative Finance material. This post will hence be the follow up of my previous post. I will here discuss how you test a hypothesis on some statistical measure. General Concept The main concept is as follows,…