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by pspencer 7y ago
Some reasons I think people like housing as investment: They can use relatively safe leverage to increase the return on equity by three or four times. There are large tax incentives. There is the time value of money aspect where you pay off
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by pspencer 7y ago
I work in legal tech nlp/automation right now. I'd like to chat.
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by pspencer 8y ago
It's interesting to read how Buffett and Munger made their money. They definitely didn't make it by investing in index funds. What Munger is really encouraging in his talks is intelligent allocation of money, knowing the boundarie
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by pspencer 12y ago
This one page isn't a good indicator of a language's popularity. It probably includes results referencing Monty Python, as indicated by the news article headlines, or the animal python. The TIOBE index might be a better indicator
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by pspencer 12y ago
It would be cool if you could search arXiv.org with this or maybe even subscription math/physics journal sites like JSTOR. Paid search results might be an opportunity for partial funding but I know that's not everyone's cup o
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by pspencer 12y ago
I always liked this visual representation of the central limit theorem: http://blog.vctr.me/posts/central-limit-theorem.html . There is a faster one here (I think written in R): http://vis.supstat.com/20
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by pspencer 12y ago
As a math graduate student, I second the choice for Abbott's "Understanding Calculus". It's a wonderful beginning book for analysis. Walter Rudin's "Principle's of Mathematical Analysis" is an amazing