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[Day 141] Lognormal random variables and looking for a TA position

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 Hello :) Today is Day 141! A quick summary of today: read a bit more of A Primer For The Mathematics Of Financial Engineering by Dan Stefanica applied (sent an email) about becoming a TA for one of the undergraduate big data/ML/stats courses in my uni I like the Primer book because it is pure math - just Lemmas and Theorems and proving them (+ application in finance). Below are my notes from Ch 4 - lognormal random variables I saw that a deadline for the 4th assignment from Stanford's XCS224W: ML with Graphs is due on the 28th so I will likely start doing it in the afternoon after a quiz I have at uni.  Also I saw that the official 2nd homework on model management and experiment tracking from the MLOps zoomcamp is up, but let's see if I can do it tomorrow. As for the 'application' to be a TA. I believe teaching is the highest form of knowing something. Being able to explain a concept to someone who does not know it and them understanding it is one of the biggest cert