Professor Carol Alexander
This channel provides free access to learning in financial risk management, quantitative methods, artifical intelligence, blockchains and other emerging technologies.
My latest series, The No-Coder’s Guide to Surviving AI, shows how finance professionals, academics and students can apply generative AI tools — including ChatGPT, Excel AI, and other large language models — to data exploration, research, teaching and learning, and assessments.
Earlier playlists include selected lectures from two of my University of Sussex courses -- in financial risk management, and in blockchains and crypto assets. These recordings are out-of-date now and represent only a small part of the complete modules, which also feature weekly seminars, projects, question banks and formal examinations.
Carol Alexander
Professor of Finance, University of Sussex
Visit www.coalexander.com for free lecture notes and excel spreadsheets — for both academics and practitioners.
Building Your Own ChatGPT: Context Engineering for Everyone
Custom GPTs: Find the AI Tool for Any Task
ChatGPT Projects: How to Keep Your AI Work (and Life) Sorted
ChatGPT Settings: Why Small Tweaks Make a Big Difference
Claude’s Artifacts: From Flashcards to Free Surveys
Keeping Organised with Claude (Or Trying To!)
Prompting Claude: Getting Better Answers Without Coding
Meet Claude: The AI That Plays by Its Own Rules
Prompt Like a Pro: Simple Tricks for Better AI Answers
Tokens, Temperature & Context Windows: AI’s Secret Ingredients
How Do AI Models “Learn”? (And What They Never Do)
Prompt vs Context: Why Your AI Isn’t Reading Your Mind
The No-Coders Guide to Surviving Generative AI
Lecture 3: Context Engineering with ChatGPT (Part 3: Using Custom GPTs)
Lecture 3: Context Engineering with ChatGPT (Part 2: Using Projects)
Lecture 3: Context Engineering with ChatGPT (Part 1: GPT Settings and Models)
Lecture 3: Context Engineering with ChatGPT (Part 4: Context Engineering with GPT Builder)
Lecture 2: All About Claude (Part 4: Artifacts and Conclusions)
Lecture 2: All About Claude (Part 2: Anthropic Console)
Lecture 2: All About Claude (Part 1: Introduction)
Lecture 2: All About Claude (Part 3: Using Projects and Analysis Tools)
Lecture 1: Introduction to Prompt and Context Engineering (Part 2: How LLMs Learn)
Lecture 1: Introduction to Prompt and Context Engineering (Part 1 Overview)
Lecture 1: Introduction to Prompt and Context Engineering (Part 4: Best Practice)
Lecture 1: Introduction to Prompt and Context Engineering (Part 3: Key Concepts)
How to make a custom-built GPT in 20 minutes
Systematic Equity and FX VaR Excel Spreadsheet
Systematic Equity and FX VaR
Systems of Equations and Quadratic Forms
Vectors and Matrices