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I'm in the process of relaunching Beam it's blog - I'd love to chat to Elixir folks about projects, technology, events, books etc.. that are exciting you right now.
Any qs or to register interest DM or reply below :)
Erlang: a programming language built in a Swedish telecom lab in the 1980s, ended up running the biggest messaging app WhatsApp. Told by its co-creator. #erlang
โ๏ธ Elixir Tip #31 - Structured Logs โ๏ธ
Did you know that your log statements can be structured either by using a keyword lists or by using maps?
Biggest laggard last Monday from "Mag 7" was META ๐
See their current 30-day zero-benchmark Sharpe ratios. Will this trend continue today or will there be a reversal?
In this week's Kodsnack, Koushik Dasika talks about working with Elixir - from the first weekend proof of concept to production and training others.
kodsnack.se/722/
#elixir #erlang #beam #podcast
A little peak into what you can do with the latest version of Explorer ๐. Using the `rle_id` function you can take the recession time series from FRED and create start/stop markers for each recessionary period. Working with time series data using Explorer and Elixir is ๐.
Explorer version 0.13.0 was just released! This was a BIG release that brings Explorer up to date with the latest version of Polars and also adds a partition function as well as a run-length encoding function for your data frames! hex.pm/packages/ex...
โ๏ธ Elixir Tip #30 - @derive inspect protocol โ๏ธ
Did you know that you can implement your own version of the inspect protocol for your structs? Using the derive attribute you can specify which fields from the struct are visible when inspecting the struct.
Biggest Winner Last Friday from the "Mag 7" was $MSFT ๐
Will this trend continue today or will there be a reversal? See how Microsoft's returns compared with the remaining Mag 7 stocks.
โ๏ธ Elixir Tip #29 - IEx Sigil Help โ๏ธ
If you are looking for the IEx help docs for sigils...you may be sad to see an error by inputting h ~s :(. Instead, you should pull up the help docs by doing h sigil_*!
How is the "Volume King" $NVDA doing? ๐
Nvidia continues to dominate trading volume and is one of the most closely watched names in the stock market. Hereโs a look at its latest candlestick action and key price moves traders are watching.
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Same CEO two different companies: Is there a relation between $TSLA $SPCX?
Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Is their performance related? How will that evolve in the future? Letโs see their current 15-, 20-, 30-, and 50-day stock return correlations.
Biggest mover last Tuesday from "Mag 7" was $AMZN with a percent change of -1.34% ๐
Seeing all the "Mag 7" 30-day standard deviations, which one seems the riskiest to you?
โ๏ธ Elixir Tip #26 - Project Priv Dir โ๏ธ
You can conveniently package arbitrary files along with your libraries and applications using the priv dir and fetching the path using the Erlang standard library.
Biggest laggard last Monday from "Mag 7" was AAPL ๐
See their current 30-day zero-benchmark Sharpe ratios. Will this trend continue today or will there be a reversal?
CVE-2026-89422 - otp
The TLS 1.3 client in Erlang/OTP can be tricked into completing a secure connection without verifying the server's identity when an unexpected preโsharedโkey hint is received. This lets anโฆ
Too many irrelevant or confusing CVEs? Use stackflag.com
โ๏ธ Elixir Tip #25 - Balzing fast read only store โ๏ธ
Erlang comes with a special storage mechanism called persistent term. Think ETS but even faster! But only use it for reading data that never changes :).
Biggest Winner Last Friday from the "Mag 7" was $NVDA ๐
Will this trend continue today or will there be a reversal? See how Nvidia's returns compared with the remaining Mag 7 stocks.
โ๏ธ Elixir Tip #24 - Erlang phash2 โ๏ธ
Did you know that you can hash any term in and clamp it to an integer range? In other words, you can get a consistent integer value given any input. Useful for partitioning and retrieving data ๐.