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Prospect theory describes how people actually make decisions under risk: loss aversion (~2x), reference dependence, and probability weighting. It is the foundation of behavioral finance.
A friendly, plain-English tour of KYC — the simple human idea of building trust through knowledge, told with the everyday analogy of a neighbourhood café.
Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system designed for high-throughput, fault-tolerant, persistent log processing that became the industry standard for building real-time data pipelines.
Running data workloads on Kubernetes: Airflow Executor types (Celery vs Kubernetes), Dagster on K8s, Spark on Kubernetes with the Spark Operator, and stateful workloads (Kafka, Flink) on K8s. Resource management and cost optimization.
Know Your Customer (KYC) is the cornerstone of AML compliance. Learn how financial institutions verify identities, assess risk, and screen against watchlists.
Deep-dive into Know Your Customer and Customer Due Diligence processes — the frontline defense against financial crime.
Kyle's seminal model of informed trading shows how an informed trader strategically splits orders to maximize profit while market makers adjust prices under adverse selection, introducing Kyle's lambda as a measure of market illiquidity.