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About Me — Louis Petrik

Figuring out life, one idea at a time — Hi, my name is Louis. I’m 20 years old. In this post, you can find out what I do away from espresso commercials. Here is a small overview: About me Where to find me Content on various topics you might like: - Programming - Money / Finance - Philosophy / Society - Self…

About Me

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About me — Louis Petrik
About me — Louis Petrik
About Me

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Published in Making of a Millionaire

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Why Rich People Have More Than One Bank Account

What sounds like a lot of effort is worth it — whether you are rich or not — Protect Your Money — From a Bankruptcy In most countries of the world, there is so-called deposit insurance. This insurance usually is government-sponsored and guarantees that the amount you had in your account at a bank that, for example, went bankrupt, will be fully refunded up to the amount of the deposit insurance. So if the deposit…

Finance

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Why Rich People Have More Than One Bank Account
Why Rich People Have More Than One Bank Account
Finance

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Published in Making of a Millionaire

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5 Clever Ways to Spend Less Money

#1 Digital money makes us decadent — 1. Digital money makes us decadent You can buy anything almost anywhere. Thanks to modern technology, we don’t even need our wallets anymore. We can pay on the internet with PayPal, in stores with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or simply with our credit card. We don’t really need cash anymore — paying digitally is usually much…

Money

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5 Clever Ways to Spend Less Money
5 Clever Ways to Spend Less Money
Money

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Published in Python in Plain English

·Mar 20

Implementing Gradient Descent In Python Almost From Scratch

Including automatic derivation — You can't get around gradient descent in machine learning. Especially if you really want to understand what is going on. The algorithm is powering different models and even neural networks. While you won't write it from scratch in 99% of your projects, implementing the algorithm by hand helps to understand…

Machine Learnin

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Implementing Gradient Descent In Python Almost From Scratch
Implementing Gradient Descent In Python Almost From Scratch
Machine Learnin

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Published in CodeX

·Mar 9

Simulating the Birthday Paradox Using Python

And plotting the law of large numbers — You have experienced the birthday paradox yourself before. I am sure about that. It is one of those paradoxes taking place in real life. Think back to your time in kindergarten, elementary or high school. Or even think about your group of friends. How many cases do you know where…

Python

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Simulating the Birthday Paradox Using Python
Simulating the Birthday Paradox Using Python
Python

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Mar 3

What Are Expected Goals in Soccer?

An introduction to the fascinating metric — Expected goals, or xG, is an advanced metric that measures the quality of scoring chances in soccer. It provides an indication of whether a team deserves more or fewer goals based on the quality of their shots. Analyzing expected goals allows us to gain interesting and in-depth insights into a…

Soccer

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What Are Expected Goals in Soccer?
What Are Expected Goals in Soccer?
Soccer

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Mar 3

Is Blitz Rating on Lichess Inflated?

Figuring it out using Python — Lichess is currently the second most popular chess website. But when it comes to criticism, one buzzword appears a lot: Rating inflation. Especially chess.com fans speak of Lichess as “being inflated,” which makes one’s rating less valuable as a measure. But is this really the case? Is the rating on…

Data

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Is Blitz Rating on Lichess Inflated?
Is Blitz Rating on Lichess Inflated?
Data

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Oct 26, 2022

Turbopack: Vercel’s Claimed Successor of Webpack

Up and running in Next.js — Less than 24 hours ago, Next.js 13 was published. With it, Vercel introduced Turbopack, an all-new bundler for the web, based on Rust for incredible performance. Vercel claims, Turbopack is the successor of Webpack, and funnily, the project is led by the creator of Webpack, Tobias Koppers. While Turbopack is…

Nextjs

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Turbopack: Vercel’s Claimed Successor of Webpack
Turbopack: Vercel’s Claimed Successor of Webpack
Nextjs

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Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Oct 7, 2021

Mastering the Coding Interview: What Is a Stable Sorting Algorithm?

And why the distinction matters — Stability is an important concept when it comes to sorting algorithms. It might help you to avoid unnecessary effort. And it shows very well that there is no sorting algorithm for all cases — it always depends. But what is a stable and an unstable sorting algorithm? Let’s find out! What we mean by stability …

Programming

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Mastering the Coding Interview: What Is a Stable Sorting Algorithm?
Mastering the Coding Interview: What Is a Stable Sorting Algorithm?
Programming

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Published in JavaScript in Plain English

·Oct 6, 2021

Meet Clio: A Language for Easy Multithreading and More That Compiles to JavaScript

Learn about parallelism, piping, maps, and more — Clio is a quite young programming language. A programming language that compiles to JavaScript — no matter if for the browser or Node.js. While TypeScript is “just” a superset of JavaScript, Clio is something completely new. And it comes with exciting features. Clio is a functional programming language. Even if…

JavaScript

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Meet Clio: A Language for Easy Multithreading and More That Compiles to JavaScript
Meet Clio: A Language for Easy Multithreading and More That Compiles to JavaScript
JavaScript

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