Course Summary
Learn how to manage your finances and build wealth while building and maintaining strong relationships with friends and family in this course.Key Learning Points
- Understand the importance of financial planning and how to create a successful financial plan
- Learn how to navigate financial conversations with friends and family
- Discover strategies for building wealth while maintaining strong personal relationships
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Create a financial plan tailored to your specific goals and circumstances
- Effectively communicate financial goals and strategies to friends and family
- Build and maintain strong personal relationships while managing finances
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- Basic understanding of personal finance
- Willingness to engage in open and honest communication with friends and family
Course Difficulty Level
IntermediateCourse Format
- Self-paced
- Online
- Video lectures
- Quizzes
Similar Courses
- Personal Finance
- Financial Planning for Young Adults
Related Education Paths
Notable People in This Field
- Suze Orman
- Ramit Sethi
Related Books
Description
You pick up your iPhone while waiting in line at a coffee shop. You google a not-so-famous actor, get linked to a Wikipedia entry listing his recent movies and popular YouTube clips of several of them. You check out user reviews on Amazon and pick one, download that movie on BitTorrent or stream that in Netflix. But suddenly the WiFi logo on your phone is gone and you're on 3G. Video quality starts to degrade, but you don't know if it's the server getting crowded or the Internet is congested somewhere. In any case, it costs you $10 per Gigabyte, and you decide to stop watching the movie, and instead multitask between sending tweets and calling your friend on Skype, while songs stream from iCloud to your phone. You're happy with the call quality, but get a little irritated when you see there're no new followers on Twitter. You may wonder how they all kind of work, and why sometimes they don't. Take a look at the list of 20 questions below. Each question is selected not just for its relevance to our daily lives, but also for the core concepts in the field of networking illustrated by its answers. This course is about formulating and answering these 20 questions.
Outline
- Introduction
- Introduction to Networks
- Preview of Questions 1–10
- Preview of Questions 11–20
- Methods and Course Concepts
- Course Logistics
- About Us
- Suggested Readings and Links
- Contact us
- What Makes CDMA Work for My Smartphone?
- Interference and Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR)
- Distributed Power Control (DPC)
- DPC through Optimization
- DPC as a Game
- Numerical Example and Summary
- Resource Allocation
- Homework
- Homework Solutions
- How Does Google Sell Ad Spaces?
- Selling Ad Spaces through Auctions
- Auction Definitions
- Second Price Single Item Auction
- Generalized Second Price (GSP) Auction and Numerical Example
- Vickrey–Clarke–Groves (VCG) Auction
- How Does Google Rank Webpages?
- Webpages and Importance
- Webgraphs and the H Matrix
- Handling Dangling Nodes
- The Google Matrix
- Numerical Example and PageRank in Practice
- Homework
- Homework Solutions
- How Does Netflix Recommend Movies?
- Netflix and Recommender Systems
- The Netflix Prize and Its Challenges
- The Baseline Predictor
- Similarity and Neighborhood Predictor
- Numerical Example and Summary
- When Can I Trust an Average Rating on Amazon?
- Review Systems and Challenges
- Key Factors and Assumptions
- The Wisdom of Crowds
- Bayesian Ranking
- Reverse Engineering Amazon
- Homework
- Homework Solutions
- Why Does Wikipedia Even Work?
- Wikipedia and Consensus Formation
- Bargaining
- Voting
- Arrow's Axioms and Impossibility Result
- Sen's Axioms and Numerical Examples
- How Do I Viralize a Youtube Video?
- YouTube and Viralization
- Population Based Models
- Sequential Decision Making and Information Cascade
- Correct vs Incorrect Cascades
- Tipping Models
- Homework
- Homework Solutions
- How Do I Influence People on Facebook?
- Topology Based Influence Models
- Measuring Node Importance
- Contagion Models
- Infection Models
- Infection with Topology and Case Study
- Can I Really Reach Anyone in 6 Steps?
- Milgram's Experiment
- Structural Small Worlds
- Watts Strogatz Graph
- Algorithmic Small World
- Homework
- Homework Solutions
- Midterm
- Does the Internet Have an Achilles' Heel?
- Graphs and Degree Distributions
- The Internet's Reality
- Graph Performance and Likelihood
- Numerical Example and Generative Models
- Why Do Mobile Carriers Charge Me $10/GB?
- Migrating to Usage Based Pricing
- Five Party Interactions
- Utility, Demand, and Fairness
- Three Reasons for Usage Based
- Numerical Example and Summary
- Homework
- Homework Solutions
- How Do I Save on Each GB?
- Overview of Smart Data Pricing (SDP)
- Time Dependent Pricing (TDP)
- Waiting Functions and Price Optimization
- Numerical Example
- How Does Traffic Go Through the Internet?
- Packet Switching
- Layered Architecture
- Distributed Hierarchy and Routing
- Bellman Ford Algorithm
- Distributed Routing
- Homework
- Homework Solutions
- Why Doesn't the Internet Collapse Under Congestion?
- Principles of Congestion Control
- Congestion Inference
- Capacity Allocation and Optimization
- Distributed Congestion Control
- Numerical Example and Summary
- How can Skype and BitTorrent be free?
- P2P and Network Scaling
- Trees and Overlay Networks
- Ideas Behind BitTorrent
- Example and Summary
- Homework
- Homework Solutions
- What's Inside the Cloud?
- Data centers and Cloud Market Segments
- Pros and Cons of Cloud
- Large Networks from Small Switches
- Clos Network and Non-blocking
- Comparison and Summary
- Which Way to Watch Video on the Internet?
- Video on the Internet
- IPTV and VoI
- Video Compression
- Application and Transport Layer for Video
- Homework
- Homework Solutions
- Why is WiFi Faster at Home Than at Hotspot?
- WiFi Description
- Random Access and Collisions
- Carrier Sensing Multiple Access (CSMA) and Throughput
- Numerical Example and Summary
- Why Am I Only Getting 3% of the Cellular Speed?
- Root Causes
- Where, When, and What Application
- Air Interface Example
- Backhaul Example
- Homework
- Homework Solutions
- Is It Fair that My Neighbor’s iPad Downloads Faster?
- Quantifying Fairness
- Fairness Functions and Properties
- Fairness-Efficiency Tradeoff
- Numerical Examples and Summary
- Course Summary
- Summary of Q1-Q20
- Key Concepts and Closing
- Final
- Guest Lectures
- Cellular Data: Past, Present, and Future: Sundeep Rangan
- The Evolution of Online Advertising: Arel Lidow
- Computing with Large Data Sets: Moses Charikar
- The Negative Aspects of ICT Penetration: Jake Shapiro
- The Puzzling Nature of Success and Failure in Cultural Markets: Matthew Salganik
- Does the Internet have an achilles' heel? Deconstructing a popular claim: Walter Willinger
- Pricing Broadband Networks: Victor Glass
- Linux CUBIC, From Idea to Actual Deployment: Sangtae Ha
Summary of User Reviews
Learn about the dynamics of financial relationships in the context of friendship with Friends, Money, and Bytes. This course has received positive reviews from users who found it engaging and informative. Many users appreciated the real-life scenarios used to explain financial concepts.Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
Real-life scenarios used to explain financial conceptsPros from User Reviews
- Engaging and informative content
- Practical advice on managing finances in the context of friendships
- Clear and concise explanations of financial concepts
- Interactive quizzes and assignments to reinforce learning
Cons from User Reviews
- Some users found the course content to be too basic
- Limited coverage of more complex financial scenarios
- Lack of interaction with instructors or other students
- The course may not be relevant to individuals who do not have close friendships