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Coursera: Computational Investing, Part I
By Tucker Bulch from Georgia Tech. I do not understand all those hedge, mutual funds stuff. But I will take away with me some important terms. Risk 1: Standard deviation of return (volatility) Risk 2: Draw Down (size of drop) … Continue reading
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The wrong view of Legalism
When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it legalism. ~ Leonard Ravenhill.
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The Business of Moving Out of State
Two more people I know moved further away from my location. One from Long Island to Florida, the other from the Mid-West to California. I have to stress to myself the importance of how one impact the world by starting … Continue reading
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Youth ministry
A church that despises any youth for ANY REASON cannot be expected to be faithful in any youth related ministry(campus ministry, producing youth ministers, etc.) for that would be nepotism.
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Blue light from LCD Devices
Lately, there's been talk about blue light from smartphones, laptop screens, etc. affecting our sleeping pattern, in addition to the discussion of how people sleep much earlier than the technological age due to the absence of electric lights. That was … Continue reading
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Cosmos A Space Time Odyssey
This 2014 version is a remake of the Cosmos miniseries in 1980 hosted by the famous Carl Sagan. One could quickly note the atheistic theme in the newer version while Sagan had greater respect for things beyond science. I will … Continue reading
From Ivy Leagues to Suicide
There are stories of those from homeless to Ivy League schools. But the reversal seems impossible. Was it pride or something else? There are however plenty of cases from Ivy leagues to suicide. Exhibit 1.
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Deport One U.S. Citizen for One Undocumented Alien?
A person is not illegal. Hence, the term undocumented. I think it is a pretty solid grammar. But that's beside the point. Now, I see young minds are being manipulated to support drastic immigration measure. When I saw discrimination in … Continue reading
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Scanning Books into Readable text PDF
The program that does the wonder: Readiris. Readiris Corporate 12 Asian in my case. Either scan from a PDF file or scanner (Use OCR Wizard) Two ways of converting the scans into readable PDF: Via OCR Wizard-PDF(Image-Text), or Format, Recognize … Continue reading
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