Evidence of Intent
232 posts

2023

  1. Autonomous Vehicles are a collection action problem

2020

  1. Garrett Jones on Cooperation

2019

  1. Low interest rates are bad for fundamental analysis

2017

  1. Minimum wage and overtime pay regulations
  2. Generating a uniform distribution
  3. We can teach children to be more effectively empirical
  4. Nested condition variables are fun!
  5. Managing cost centers by making them profit centers
  6. Housing transaction costs are really high!
  7. Cython is awesome

2016

  1. Cheap entertainment and unmotivated young men
  2. Corporate Intellectualism
  3. Throat clearing
  4. Low-cost passive ETFs and magical thinking
  5. Comparing SP500 and housing leverage
  6. How does Germany compare to the USA in terms of median income?
  7. The Grammar of Graphics
  8. Passive investing is cheap, but not free
  9. NetSurveillance Web RTSP URL
  10. Was the 2015-2016 flu vaccine spot-on?

2015

  1. Do Critical Topics always bring Abrasive Conversations?
  2. Where does Taiwanese air pollution come from?
  3. What parts of Deep Learning are modern?
  4. Deep Learning with Small Data
  5. Neal Stephenson on The Problem with Personalised News Feeds
  6. Movies - Inside Out, The Little Prince
  7. Learning to accept unknowability
  8. Wittgenstein's ladder

2014

  1. Lagged asset correlations, a thought experiment
  2. The legitimacy of capture
  3. Skillz
  4. Idealism takes courage, cynicism is a form of cowardice

2013

  1. The Joys of Rambling
  2. Imprecision
  3. Balance of Payment
  4. The pride behind words
  5. Introducing a paper
  6. Productivity and the value of Labor

2012

  1. Lecture to me
  2. Bridging identities for growth
  3. Meaningful disagreement
  4. Why classic prose?
  5. Cross-elasticity in everyday life
  6. Blog schedule change
  7. Board games
  8. Singapore home sizes
  9. Approximate Dynamic Programming
  10. Selling yourself
  11. Fatigue point
  12. I ♥ good questions
  13. Quantity, not quality
  14. Terry Pratchett
  15. Fulfilling what potential?
  16. Feeling free
  17. ConnectedHQ
  18. Starcraft 2 commentary
  19. Blogging so far
  20. Calvinism and the hedonic treadmill
  21. Quantitative Management vs. Quantitative Thinking
  22. To know "how" you need to know "why"
  23. Your computer and you
  24. Writing life stories
  25. How to Study
  26. Truly impressive science education videos
  27. Exponential money fallacy / paradox
  28. Habit Forge

2011

  1. Too much of a good thing
  2. Physics - dropping a slinky
  3. Thoughts on speculators and middlemen
  4. What I think makes life interesting

2010

  1. The reasons people trade (Larry Harris)
  2. Macroeconomic dichotomies
  3. "The flaw of the Asian business model is that at the center of it is a craving for power as opposed to profit"
  4. GDP and the broken window fallacy
  5. NPV logic for social entrepreneurship
  6. The right to a risk premium
  7. Unintended consequences
  8. Income statement vs NPV view of investments
  9. Accounting and decision making
  10. Job creation, Meritocracy and Democracy
  11. Accounting realization of the day -- Inflation and Depreciation
  12. Don't be bored
  13. Kelly criterion in general part I
  14. Kelly criterion and lottery tickets
  15. Case-Shiller futures have no liquidity :(
  16. Notes on money

2009

  1. Incentive compensation
  2. Learning to consume -- Brooks Brothers
  3. hedonic treadmill avoidance
  4. What is the most common hand in texas holdem?
  5. Risk adversity, flipped
  6. Poker the Metaphor
  7. UPS Manhattan has terrible service
  8. Amazing GDP fact of the month
  9. Recipe for Reductionist Analytic Modeling
  10. The nature of thought
  11. Long tails: a semi-technical explanation
  12. Winning an argument
  13. Consumption is exogenous to Capitalism
  14. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing
  15. The Instrumentality of Risk Adversity
  16. Applied Abstraction - the terminal / instrumental dichotomy
  17. Stockholder Perks
  18. Applied Abstraction - the qualitative / quantitive dichotomy
  19. Applied Abstraction - the transient / steady state dichotomy
  20. Applied Abstraction - The Dichotomy Series
  21. I finally get Fractional Reserve Banking
  22. Paying for your Economics / Computational assumptions
  23. No Free Lunch Theorems
  24. Book Queue
  25. Warren Buffet's misleading buy-the-index logic
  26. Frameworks and Graphs
  27. Theory of the Firm, Transactions, and Commoditization
  28. Why isn't there a Case-Shiller ETF?
  29. Judea Pearl's Causality
  30. Center for Inquiry - Maggie Jackson's Distracted

2008

  1. Risk and Ignorance, Keynes
  2. Bronchitis Urgent Care in New York
  3. Free will, Rationality and Intelligence
  4. Risk and Ignorance, the way I understand it
  5. The twice-iterated prisoner's dilemna
  6. The Risk Premium
  7. Time Value of Money
  8. Two Envelope Problem
  9. Budget
  10. Don't listen to Noise
  11. Modelling
  12. Bad Questions
  13. Evolution, Economics, and Normative Standards
  14. On Blogging
  15. Make these!
  16. Learning from Repetition
  17. Barry Schwartz on the Paradox of Choice
  18. just call me doctor
  19. Rich People pay Less
  20. Photo: Halogen Plume
  21. Racism and The Genetic Fallacy
  22. Excuses Are Bad For Companies
  23. The Coming Alternative Energy Bubble
  24. Martingales and Infanticide
  25. My Misuse of Darwinian Evolution
  26. Scaling arguments and CEO compensation
  27. Feti Travel is awesome
  28. playing well with others
  29. Long Bets
  30. Change of Subject
  31. Black Swans
  32. Growth and Prosperity
  33. Intellectual Rigor
  34. International Capital Movements
  35. Light Bulb Art
  36. Economic Incentives and Economic Growth
  37. Who's Your City and Paternalism
  38. Ikea International
  39. When Competition is Harmful
  40. America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree
  41. State-Sponsored Matchmaking
  42. The Optimistic Thought Experiment
  43. The Political Economy of Power
  44. Semantics versus Syntax Part I
  45. How the Internet is Changing Us
  46. The Pope's Visit
  47. The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
  48. Real Linux in Anime
  49. The Missing Asian Financial Hub
  50. The Importance of Stories
  51. Singaporean SWFs - Biggest in the World
  52. Agnosticism and Epistemological Zombiehood
  53. The Lucas Critique and Modern Portfolio Theory
  54. The Kite Runner, aka The Guilt Trip from Hell
  55. The Default Choice
  56. Markets Fail
  57. Kelly Criterion
  58. Asset Allocation
  59. Fortune's Formula

2007

  1. What I learnt
  2. Games
  3. Shouts and Murmurs
  4. Bookie Math
  5. Pass right through
  6. Nth order work
  7. Economics
  8. Week in Review
  9. Quantum Riddle
  10. Week in Review
  11. Re: We Hobbits are a Merry Folk
  12. Fairness, Equality and Reality
  13. Purpose, Simply
  14. State Counting in Thermodynamics
  15. gdb
  16. Free Will
  17. Money and Zero-Sum games Part II
  18. Lessons in Leadership from Open Source
  19. Hayek
  20. Money and Zero-Sum games
  21. Update

2006

  1. RG in Biology
  2. Catch of the Day
  3. The Cons of Introspection
  4. Maturity
  5. If all stories were written like science fiction stories
  6. Hedge Funds and Insider Trading
  7. Motifs in Science
  8. A second language 'changes personality'
  9. Salon Chaos
  10. Mind Control
  11. Authority
  12. Morris Chang's Pessimism
  13. To Bear Thought
  14. Rain
  15. Compact Expression
  16. Update
  17. On ist's
  18. Procrastination
  19. Storytelling
  20. Who Can Name the Bigger Number?
  21. The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi
  22. Organic Photovoltaics
  23. Leveraging Ideas
  24. Academia as a Career
  25. DRM
  26. NYT quotes LKY
  27. Media Lab
  28. Pride
  29. Brain Rot
  30. Should I go to Graduate School?
  31. Wikipedia in China
  32. Trust Metrics
  33. MIT ROCSA name change software
  34. Passion
  35. Notions of Freedom
  36. Not Found