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Optimization using Hill Climbing

The following example shows how to find the best portfolio configuration given that only the price of a single stock can be incremented by 10 cents at a time. Since we are using Hill Climbing technique, we can find the local optimal value easily but the same cannot be said for finding the global optimal […]

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Achieving optimal performance in code

Is there any difference between the following two expressions\statements? def func1(a): return a == ‘TRUE’ def func2(a): return True if a == ‘TRUE’ else False Well, both of them do the same thing but interestingly, the former one is faster in terms of performance by atleast one CPU cycle! Let’s tear into assembly language of […]

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