Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
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The Distracted Mind - The main changes I will be making after reading this book are keeping my phone in another room when working and not using a phone/tablet/computer or watching TV within 30-60 minutes of going to sleep at night.
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Why the Best Things in Life Are All Backwards - “Effort and reward have a linear relationship when the action is mindless and simple. Effort and reward have a diminishing returns relationship when the action is complex and multivariate.”
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Analyzing Canada’s largest mutual funds: ‘Mediocre is kind in some cases’ (subs only) - In the long term you are costing yourself a lot of money if you are putting your money in these high cost mutual funds instead of low cost ETFs and index funds.
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101 Pandas Exercises for Data Analysis - A good resource for when you need to brush up on pandas.
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Miguel Grinberg - Oops! I Committed My Password To GitHub! - PyCon 2018 - I have never done this but this is a good talk for what to do if it happens and helping prevent it from happening. It’s good to know I have already been using the suggested practices.
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Alex Petralia - Analyzing Data: What pandas and SQL Taught Me About Taking an Average - PyCon 2018