Posted by wenzi on 19 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: (t)
This site has suddenly started recieving massive amounts of comment spam. Our spam filter takes care of some of it, but tons were still getting through to me. I decided that you have to log in to comment. Sorry about that.
Every time one of these spam messages gets through the spam filter, I have to moderate it, and they are coming every few minutes.
Posted by wenzi on 03 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: CAIA(t)
The next CAIA exams are Sept 08-19, 2008. Exam registration closes about six weeks before that date, so if you have not registered it is too late.
I did not include the courses or online video type courses. Those depend a lot more in the instructor and class size, etc. The four below are arguably the most popular. ( I don’t know who would argue that point, but I wrote arguably just in case some one wants to argue the point in the comments )
Institutional Investor’s ExamPrep www.iiexamprep.com
Cost: Level 1 – $589
Cost: Level 2 – $589
Was one of the most expensive, but they have dropped the price from ~$700 to $589. I am hoping they improve the materials.
Uppermark http://www.uppermark.com/
Cost: Level 1 – $599/$499
Cost: Level 2 – $599/$499
Recommended. This company was founded by Dr. Padideh Jalali who used to be faculty at University of Massachusetts. Their level II stuff is not nearly as good as their level one materials. The extra $100 is or flash cards. Not sure if it is worth it for the flash cards, I just made my own.
Schweser http://www.schweser.com/
Cost: Level 1 – $599
Cost: Level 2 – $599
These guys were the late comers to the CAIA, but with their reputation from their CFA materials, I am sure they will do well. Never used their stuff.
EDHEC http://www.edhec-risk.com/AIeducation
Cost: Level 1 – €419
Cost: Level 2 – €419
This is just the Uppermark suite , being sold by EDHEC. This is the books ( Uppermark ) that are used during their three day classes. Not really too sure if these are still going on for Sept ‘08
Posted by wenzi on 11 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: (t)
If you spend most of your time on a computer, this will help. I have been away for a while and coming back to my old routine shows.
Posted by wenzi on 24 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: (t)
This is a screel grab from “Flavor of Love”. The black girl in this picture lived in Taipei for five years. Her Dad is from HK, and she grew up in Cali. Her Chinese was not slangy at all. It seems like she only learned Chinese at the MTC.
This frame, she is a bit drunk and speaking in Chinese. The other girl is saying the only word she knew in Chinese which is “eggroll”.
I don’t know if she spoke Taiwanese.
Posted by wenzi on 23 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: (t)
The ASCII standard for text does not define a unique end-of-line (EOL)
character. Instead, ASCII defines two independent and orthogonal
movements of the print head: Carriage Return (CR) and Line Feed (LF).
(IBM’s EBCDIC did not make this mistake; it defined a single New Line
(NL) character.) Early operating system designers had to adopt some
“end-of-line” convention using CR and LF; some used LF, some used
CR, and some used a two-octet sequence: LF CR or CR LF.
During the early ARPAnet research days (~1970-1972), this end-of-line
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