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Anthropic Claude API for coding after work: review a diff, do not autopilot

Anthropic Claude API for coding after work: review a diff; you still own the merge. Educational only. Not investment advice.

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OpenAI API for finance workflows after work: summarize and extract JSON from public text only. Educational only. Not investment advice.

LlamaIndex RAG after work: index one folder of markdown and cite retrieved chunks. Educational only. Not investment advice.

vLLM for beginners after work: mental model for serving one small instruct model locally. Educational only. Not investment advice.

LangChain for financial research after work: one read-only retrieve→reason chain over your notes. Educational only. Not investment advice.

Sentence Transformers after work: embed a few lines and rank neighbors by cosine similarity. Educational only. Not investment advice.

Hugging Face Transformers for finance after work: classify a toy headline with pipeline()—not alpha. Educational only. Not investment advice.

Keras time series after work: window a series into supervised pairs and try a tiny MLP baseline. Educational only. Not investment advice.

TensorFlow vs PyTorch for trading research after work: pick one stack and avoid dual maintenance. Educational only. Not investment advice.

PyTorch 2 after work: try torch.compile on a tiny module and keep a correctness baseline. Educational only. Not investment advice.

scikit-learn trading-signal toys after work: TimeSeriesSplit classification with leakage controls. Educational only. Not investment advice.

PyTorch for finance beginners after work: tensors and a one-layer loop before any LSTM hype. Educational only. Not investment advice.