imakwana

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Wisdom of Crowds or Ignorance of Masses? A Data-Driven Guide to WallStreetBets(arxiv.org)
2 points by imakwana 3y ago|0 comments
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by imakwana 3y ago
+1000. Probably the best forum on the planet for no-nonsense personal finance & investing topics.
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by imakwana 3y ago
Please begin your journey here & ignore all "financial news" Bogleheads Wiki: Getting Started https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started This wiki is one of the best resources in USA for simple, stra
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by imakwana 3y ago
Bogleheads.org forum is the gold standard for index investors. TL;DR: Mostly the advice is to ignore the news, most of the information (including the news shown on CNBC) is already baked into the current prices (efficient markets). Stay the
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by imakwana 3y ago
My favorite: Herbert Simon & Alan Newell's ACM Turing Award Lecture - "Computer Science as an empirical inquiry: Symbols & Search" : https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/360018.360022 The
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Networks, Crowds and Markets: Reasoning about a highly connected world (2010) [pdf](cs.cornell.edu)
3 points by imakwana 3y ago|0 comments
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by imakwana 3y ago
Relevant: Stanford Online course - CS217 Hardware acceleration for machine learning https://online.stanford.edu/courses/cs217-hardware-accelerat... Course website with lecture notes: https://cs217.stanford.e
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by imakwana 4y ago
"We found a lot of other Indian expats in the same situation as us - wanting to invest in India for financial and emotional reasons, but unable to do so easily or consistently. We wished a simple product existed to solve for this onlin
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by imakwana 4y ago
+1 Bogleheads forum is excellent.
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by imakwana 4y ago
+1000 This forum increased my financial literacy by an order of magnitude.
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by imakwana 4y ago
1) There is a non-US Investing sub-forum within Bogleheads which is quite active and many posters are residing in Europe: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=22 2) Rational Reminder forum is general equity
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by imakwana 4y ago
MIT course series on Computation Structures: https://computationstructures.org/
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by imakwana 4y ago
1975 ACM Turing Award Lecture on "Computer Science as an empirical inquiry: Symbols and Search" by Herbert Simon & Alan Newell (inventors of list processing). https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/simon_1
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by imakwana 4y ago
Your question resonates with me. The path, using your programming skills, that I believe has good chances of significantly & rapidly improving compensation is to uplevel your skills & attempt for the highest tier of compensation ba
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by imakwana 4y ago
Communities related to personal finance & investing that I enjoy reading & contributing to: 1) Bogleheads Forum (Personal Finance & Investing) 2) Rational Reminder Community (Investing)
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by imakwana 4y ago
Derek Sivers: Cross the world four times https://sive.rs/4
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by imakwana 4y ago
One of the best introduction to investing for an individual investor is William Bernstein's Four Pillars of Investing https://www.amazon.com/Four-Pillars-Investing-Building-Portf... For learning how financial world rea
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by imakwana 4y ago
Gergely Orosz's Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter for all aspects related to Tech career: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/
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by imakwana 4y ago
Advanced Financial Investing: 1) Rational Reminder (Ben Felix & Cameron Passmore) : This is hands down the best in equity investing (start with Nobel Prize winner Eugene Fama in Episode 200) 2) Flirting With Models (Corey Hoffstein) : D
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by imakwana 4y ago
Great tool! Thanks for building this. I noticed lack of below asset classes in the list: 1) US Small Cap Stocks (e.g. Russell 2000 Index) 2) International Large Cap Stocks (MSCI EAFE Index) 3) International Small Cap Stocks (MSCI EAFE Inde
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by imakwana 4y ago
"Use it or lose it" Don't remember the source of this insight, it is often used in context of evolutionary adaptation in biology. This encompasses every activity in day-to-day life.
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by imakwana 4y ago
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
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by imakwana 4y ago
" Take a simple idea & take it seriously " - Charlie Munger A good collection of his quotes over time : https://25iq.com/quotations/charlie-munger/
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by imakwana 4y ago
This might be a specific aspect of Global Macro investing, but if you are interested in Risk Parity strategies (as popularized and adopted by Bridgewater), below two books by Alex Shahidi of Evoke Advisors cover Risk Parity asset allocation
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Value Investor's Guide to Web3(sparklinecapital.com)
1 points by imakwana 5y ago|0 comments
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by imakwana 5y ago
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
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by imakwana 5y ago
+1. It is paramount to pivot the personal career capital/skills to align with the industry trends. I have seen the stagnation take root in my own career currently, working in the same company for 6 years, and it indeed becomes exponent
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by imakwana 5y ago
How to get better at technical interviewing, this is a skill that has cost me the most in terms of opportunity cost.
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by imakwana 5y ago
Yes, it is like walking into a coffee shop full of smart people and listening to their conversations. It is inspiring in a subtle and constructive way. The mental models acquired over many years of reading HN are extremely helpful in naviga
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by imakwana 5y ago
An investment analogy can be "Core & Explore" portfolio of skills with pareto distribution (say 80% Core, 20% Explore). The core skills are those that have stood the test of time over multiple decades (OOP, FP, Operating Syste

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