(Day 141) Lognormal random variables and looking for a TA position

Ivan Ivanov · May 21, 2024

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/statistics 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

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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 certifiers that someone really know’s something. So I wrote an email in Korean about that I know python, some math, some statistics, have been studying and blogging here about ML/DL, so let’s see if I can atleast meet with a professor even just for a chat.

That is all for today!

See you tomorrow :)