The concept of a pension fascinates me since it would be great to have your investments pay your living expenses while you work wherever you want without worrying about a salary. I've created a calculator here that allows you to figure out the numbers you need to create your own pension plan.
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Published December 22, 2017 by theboat with 3 comments
I was curious if time of day affects the likelihood of your post doing well or being ignored so I ran some data to see if I could spot any trends.
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017
In working on CityProjections, I have to do bilinear interpolation constantly. Is there a fast way to do it in MATLAB?
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Thursday, December 7, 2017
In a previous post, I worked through why dividing 72 by your interest rate approximates your doubling time in years.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017
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Monday, July 31, 2017
I wanted to make a simple climate model from scratch, so I took some of the data that's available and created one. I've written up the process in detail here for anyone who wants to do something similar and have created a simple tool using this that you can play with here. Note that I am cross-posting this from another website I run called CityProjections since it fit with the theme of this blog.
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Monday, July 17, 2017
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/ is a politics subreddit, and I thought it might be fun to estimate the relative share of the news cycle each candidate took up there this past election season. Spoiler before I start:
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Saturday, July 15, 2017
Published July 15, 2017 by theboat with 20 comments
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ is a subreddit where people make graphs of various things, and I was curious what languages/tools are most popular there so I tried a crude estimation and it worked out reasonably well. Here's the spoilers before I start:
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Sunday, July 2, 2017
I've done this a few times and it's actually much easier than it might seem. An example of a real site I maintain that I did this with is CityProjections. Most of the site is hosted on hostgator and I use blogger for the blog on it because I was too lazy to write my own content management system and I like blogger more than wordpress. Maybe interesting to note that I'm actually using a default template for the page you're viewing right now. I've switched to a custom template since writing this article.
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Published July 02, 2017 by theboat with 2 comments
Another thing I needed to do but couldn't find a great description of through googling...
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