The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It

Scott Patterson

BOOKS ON TAPE]

At the end of the First World War, there were 270,000 demobilised Australian soldiers in Europe. Getting them home after the Armistice was a task of epic proportions that would take more than two years. In the meantime, how to keep these disgruntled, damaged men with guns occupied? In a word: sport. The Oarsmen tells the story of the servicemen who survived the war to row for the coveted King's Cup at the 1919 Royal Henley Peace Regatta. Competing against crews from the US, New Zealand, France, the UK and Canada, the Australians were a ragtag bunch of oarsmen thrown in an old-fashioned boat and expected to race. Many had seen the worst of the action during the war at Gallipoli and the Western Front, and carried scars both physical and psychological. The baggage they brought to the boat would soon threaten to capsize the whole endeavour. Combining first-hand accounts with lively prose, this never-before-told story approaches the First World War from peacetime and illuminates history in vivid and compelling detail. Interweaving the soldiers' personal stories from before, during and after the war, The Oarsmen paints a fascinating picture of how these men, and society, transitioned from an unprecedented war to a new sort of peace.

The Oarsmen

History

Military

Hardie Grant Books

Build, deploy, test, and run cloud-native serverless applications using AWS Lambda and other popular AWS servicesKey Features<ul>
<li>Learn how to write, run, and deploy serverless applications in Amazon Web Services</li>
<li>Make the most of AWS Lambda functions to build scalable and cost-efficient systems</li>
<li>Build and deploy serverless applications with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda functions</li>
</ul>Book DescriptionServerless computing is a way to run your code without having to provision or manage servers. Amazon Web Services provides serverless services that you can use to build and deploy cloud-native applications. Starting with the basics of AWS Lambda, this book takes you through combining Lambda with other services from AWS, such as Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Step Functions. 
You'll learn how to write, run, and test Lambda functions using examples in Node.js, Java, Python, and C# before you move on to developing and deploying serverless APIs efficiently using the Serverless Framework. In the concluding chapters, you'll discover tips and best practices for leveraging Serverless Framework to increase your development productivity. 
By the end of this book, you'll have become well-versed in building, securing, and running serverless applications using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda without having to manage any servers.What you will learn<ul>
<li>Understand the core concepts of serverless computing in AWS</li>
<li>Create your own AWS Lambda functions and build serverless APIs using Amazon API Gateway</li>
<li>Explore best practices for developing serverless applications at scale using Serverless Framework</li>
<li>Discover the DevOps patterns in a modern CI/CD pipeline with AWS CodePipeline</li>
<li>Build serverless data processing jobs to extract, transform, and load data</li>
<li>Enforce resource tagging policies with continuous compliance and AWS Config</li>
<li>Create chatbots with natural language understanding to perform automated tasks</li>
</ul>Who this book is forThis AWS book is for cloud architects and developers who want to build and deploy serverless applications using AWS Lambda. A basic understanding of AWS is required to get the most out of this book.Table of Contents<ol>
<li>The evolution of Compute</li>
<li>Event-driven Applications</li>
<li>The Foundations</li>
<li>Adding Amazon API Gateway</li>
<li>Leveraging AWS Services</li>
<li>Going Deeper with Lambda</li>
<li>Serverless Framework</li>
<li>Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery with Serverless Framework</li>
<li>Data Processing</li>
<li>AWS Automation</li>
<li>Creating Chatbots</li>
<li>Single-page Web Applications</li>
<li>GraphQL APIs</li>
</ol>

Learn AWS Serverless Computing: A beginner's guide to using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and services from Amazon Web Services

Computers & Technology

Packt Publishing

Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots – many so self-directed that humans can’t predict what they’ll do next.It’s the story of the blisteringly intelligent computer programmers behind the rise of these ‘bots’. And it’s a timely warning that as artificial intelligence gradually takes over, we could be on the verge of global meltdown. ‘Scott Patterson has the ability to see things you and I don’t notice.’ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of Antifragile, Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan

Dark Pools: The rise of A.I. trading machines and the looming threat to Wall Street [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2012] Scott Patterson

Business & Money

Investing

RANDOM HOUSE BUSINESS BOOKS

Western Uinta Backcountry Guide

Notch Mountain Publishing

For fans of The Black Swan and written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls.There’s no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, technological disruption, political radicalisation, religious fundamentalism — all threaten chaos that put trillions in assets at risk. But around the world, across a wide variety of disciplines, would-be super-forecasters are trying to take the guesswork out of what formerly seemed like random chance. Some put their faith in ‘black swans’ — unpredictable, catastrophic events that can’t be foreseen but send exotic financial instruments screaming in high-profit directions. Most famous among this group of big-bet traders are those who run the Universa fund, who, on days of extreme upheaval, have made as much as $1 billion.Author Scott Patterson gained exclusive access to Universa strategists and met with savvy seers in a variety of fields, from earthquake prediction to counterterrorism to climatology, to see if it’s actually possible to bet on disaster — and win. Riveting, relevant, and revelatory, this is a must-read for anyone curious about how some of today’s investors alchemise catastrophe into profit.

Chaos Kings: how Wall Street traders make billions in the new age of crisis

Scribe UK

Scott Patterson 2 Books Collection Set (Dark Pools, Chaos Kings)

Processes & Infrastructure

Random House Business/Scribe Ltd

Easy Money By Ben McKenzie & Jacob Silverman [Hardcover], Chaos Kings By Scott Patterson 2 Books Collection Set

Jacob Silverman Ben Mckenzie

Biographies & Memoirs

Harry N. Abrams/Scribe Ltd

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