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  • How To Use Beta in Investing

    Beta is one way to measure a stock's historical volatility. Here's how it works.
  • How to Use DefaultDict in Python

    Throughout my time working with datasets in Python, the dictionary has been my most used data structure. It’s versatile and easy to use. Need to count occurrences of a character? Use a dictionary! Want to create a list of soccer players and associated stats? Dictionary! They’re not fool-proof, though. In
  • What are AppImages and how do you use them on Linux?

    In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Linux had a bad reputation for not having a large enough app ecosystem. Twenty-plus years later, that complaint no longer holds water. Linux has several viable routes to installing tons of applications. There's every distribution's built-in package manager, such as apt (Debian-based), dnf (Fedora-based), zypper (SUSE-based), and pacman (Arch-based). There are also universal package managers (Snap and Flatpak packages) and you can also install them from the...