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Purchasing a house right now? Makes lots of sense
At times of inflation & rising rates, a mortgage allows to lock-in a relatively good price. Then, houses able to index rent to inflation ...
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- Jun 22, 2022
- 1 min
eV - Data Relationship Platform
Showcasing the result obtainable with our machine learning webApp able to return the relationships driving users data and their outcomes ...
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- May 7, 2022
- 10 min
Here is how an R-Learning agent beats humans
Impressive performance of this R-learning agent powered by 2 hidden neural networks collaborating and self-formulating optimal rules ...
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- Apr 13, 2022
- 10 min
R-Learning AI self-taking over processes
From supply chain to energy management: how Reinforcement Learning extracts “optimal” decisions through simple interaction ...
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- Jul 22, 2021
- 12 min
Machine Learning is about Change of Space rather than Higher Dimension
Intuition on the math of image recognition, convolution, word embeddings, change of space ... machine learning
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- May 1, 2021
- 7 min
Game Theory in my Behavioral Finance failure
Fixing our zero-sum bias can immediately improve our negotiations, and in general, our results. This is a critical life-algorithm
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- Mar 11, 2021
- 13 min
Mechanical Occam s chaos Lorenz butterfly
The math and simulation of chaos, why predicting the weather and climate changes is tough, and more ...
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- Oct 4, 2020
- 7 min
Testing and polling sampled population
Say we have a population of N individuals and we know that among that pool there is an unknown number of positives ...
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- Aug 21, 2020
- 5 min
Reversion to the mean? Still tough to profit from it
Events will probably revert to the mean, but making decisions on that idea would probably ruin us. Here are 3 practical tips ...
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- Jun 18, 2020
- 6 min
My Reinforcement Learning options trader
Reinforcement Learning applied to financial markets and options trading. Letting an agent place trades and experience rewards ...
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- Oct 6, 2019
- 5 min
Assuming our initial assumptions are wrong is usually correct
Part 1 of the series Make Better Decisions Through Probability & Statistics. As per the intro-post of the series, this post will focus on:...
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- Sep 29, 2019
- 3 min
Make better decisions through Probability & Statistics _ intro
#decisionmaking #probabilityandstatistics # foodforthought I am an engineer, I transitioned from mechanical engineering to financial...
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- Feb 27, 2019
- 3 min
Managers are on AVERAGE wrong about AVERAGES
While many professionals often describe numbers like sales and costs through some Pareto characteristics – few customers or factors, say...
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- Dec 19, 2018
- 5 min
The illusion of control _ Central limit theorem
#decisionMaking #intuition #management #strategies Sometimes, the simpler the tool, the harder it is to master it. In management,...
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- Oct 24, 2018
- 3 min
The most overlooked number in corporate M&A
#acquisitions #MandA #corporateStrategy #strategy #consulting Corporate M&A often fails to deliver the value identified during the...
riccardo
- Aug 30, 2018
- 4 min
Decision making through intuition_3/3_Exponential distribution
Often we complicate easy decisions with assumptions that do not really affect our systems. “Easy decision” does not necessarily mean that...
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- Aug 22, 2018
- 3 min
Decision making through intuition_2/3_Normal distribution
In the previous post we discussed the Power-Law distribution and how the enduro rider ( Graham Jarvis ) waited only the average time...
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- Aug 16, 2018
- 5 min
Decision making through intuition_1/3_Power Law distribution
We often try to calculate exact numbers without realizing that they seldom constitute actionable information once we consider their...
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- Aug 1, 2018
- 3 min
Life hacking _ choose before exploring 50% of the options
Imagine we just moved to a new city and we are looking for an apartment to rent. We schedule 10 appointments and we know that at each...
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- May 16, 2018
- 2 min
Optimization is about ranges rather than exact numbers
In business, we are always looking for optimization allowing us to save costs and boost margins. Optimization is often easy to find on...
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