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Introduction + Prologue

- Chuck Horna - main fighter pilot background + experienced pilot
- ShwarzKopf - chucks' boss, chief of staff.
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- Historical : Iraq invades kuwait
- Meeting is organized with higher officials with schwarzkopf. Another character Bill Moore ( inexperienced, and no fighter pilot fraternity respects rank more than merit and experience )
- Discussion for attac/defense logistics

Chapter : Alice and Bob Go Public.
- DES founder Horst fesitel algorithm(56 bits key) (symmetrica key cryptography).
- The utter problem with this whole symmetric algoirhtm was the key distribution.
- Whitman diffie and Marting hellman came up with nice Asymmetric key
- RSA (rivert,shamir,adleman) provided nice practical implementation of the diffie-hellman.
- GHCQ folks independetly disvoered(Ellis,Clifford,Williams

Chapter 1 contians general introduction, types of files : elf, PE, normal compilation process : preprocessing(importing the files and copy-paste the source-code) , compile (analyze the tokens and produce the assembly) , assembler (outputs the object file usually relocatable) - an object file contains the empty references the the external libraries which are filled at linker stage - outputs exectuable file,

Chapter 2 end: basics of 32bit i386. general-purpose registers, stack execution, EIP, ESP, EBP. debug events, types of breaking point(soft = changing opcode to 0xcc, but CRC(checksum verification ) is used by malware writers to detect,), hard = using debug registers (dr0-4 stores bp addresses, 3 are reserved, dr7 = on/off with type of debug events(eip @addr, write to addr, read/write to addr but not exec)), memorybp

continued. Graph languages(cypher, as relational SQL, ), property model vs triple-store model, graphQL. Examples (bill gates info, positional data(in sq)l vs document), graph(hierachy within vertices), recommendation(manytomany relationship)

Chapter 2 ended. Three types of data -models: relational, document and graph. relational is SQL (structured, normalized, foreignkey-primary key based. easy, think about joins before, ACID(atomicity,consistency,isolation,durability)). document(noSQL,supports many to many relationship(unlike hierachy ), unstructured, enforce on read constraints, no relation within documents), Graph(inter-doc relation, vertices,edges),

things about howie hubler, fixed asset trader @ morgan stanley, and his big trades with deutsch bank, citibank ,meryl lynch.. and had loses.

The Long quiet presents the sequence from movie when Joe GreenBlatt (person who hired MB), starts yelling and all investor have diminished faith in system as well as michael's ability to guess bond market good. At this point, banks start failing, ABX fall down, banks betting against their own interest (CDOs on AA rated sub-prime mortgages). But Voila! the returns are turning positive now at Scion Capital.

Just over the meeting in Las vegas with the CDO managers from the biggest banks. Cornwall capital (charlie and jamie) and frontpoint funds( eismann and team) consolidated their belief over the fate of subprime mortgage which will take down the whole housing market.

Main culprit shown : Rating agencies. They don't had the clue about the underlying mortagages(had same info as investors like eisman), shitty models etc.

till Chapter 12

- read chap 3,6,7,8,9,0,11,12.
- chapter theme are distinct and clear.

Chapter : tokamaks takes over.

- brief history of JET in EU, TFTR, Japans' program. Politics involved within setting up of these spaces, funding requirements,
- Cold fusion(fleischmann and ponn)
- Tokamak structur : donut, divertor,limiter usage for elongated plasma confinment
- Heating mechanism by each structure : neutron injection beam
- Plasma physics : H-mode, instability/doping due to internal lining etc..

Chap 1 : General Index strategy vs frequent trading and added costs from advisors, bankers and brokerage commissions. General
Chap 2 :
- Good comparison of investment measure(EPS growth+ dividend) vs Speculative Measure(PE change). Long term averages to investment measures and Index increased over period of time.
Chap 3 : S&P and basket of companies, surivor bias, Index is superior otherwise you are lying.

Chapter #1 .

- fusion introduction ;
- as a process in the sun's core formation of helium and heavier elements till iron.
- producing energy and hazards (little comparatively) ; arranging inputs (deutrium and tritium) and taking care of waste (helium and high-energy neutrons)
- Biggest organizations with fusion initiatives such as ITER,JET,NIF and their respective expectations of achieving break-even.
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Chapter 4: Middle years at Magellan.

Covered so far :

1. Stocks, Bonds, Stock funds, bond funds,
2. Mutual Funds
3. Types of stocks (capital appreciation, value, growth ...)
4. The balance sheet of 50/50 diversified portfolio (Chapter 2)

Right now.

- Actual history at Magellan and Fidelity [stock-managers, competitors] ...