You'll often hear something like 'invest in an index fund and get 8% returns'. How reliable is that 8% (or whatever number you hear)? Is that between 7% and 9% most of the time? 5 and 11%?
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Published October 24, 2019 by theboat with 4 comments
If it takes 40 years for a $100,000 investment to grow to $1,000,000, how long does it take it to grow an additional $1,000,000?
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Published August 30, 2019 by theboat with 184 comments
I was curious how NFL franchises have performed over time and if they have streaks of good then bad or if it's all kind of random.
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Published August 20, 2019 by theboat with 15 comments
Is a 5-4 win or a 1-0 win more common? What margin of victories happen most often in baseball? Does baseball have a home field advantage?
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Published July 27, 2019 by theboat with 53 comments
It often feels like stocks are at an all-time high, but there's an obvious reason for this...stocks are often near their all-time high.
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Published May 17, 2019 by theboat with 2 comments
Sometimes when using plotly, you'll plot something, it won't show up, and hovering over the point that didn't show up will work. What's going on?
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I often order shrimp and grits when we get seafood, and the one at Salt Traders in Round Rock, TX inspired me to figure out how to make it well. Here is my Salt Traders shrimp and grits recipe attempt.
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Friday, April 19, 2019
Published April 19, 2019 by theboat with 2 comments
You might have heard of 'normal', 'poisson', and other 'distributions' What real-life situations result in those?
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
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Published March 16, 2019 by theboat with 3 comments
I needed to classify curves recently and the tutorials I found for classification algorithms all used single points instead of curves. I settled on something crude but effective for my use case.
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Published February 22, 2019 by theboat with 2 comments
I didn't see any nice tutorials from start to finish on writing and deploying a Vue app, so I wrote down all the steps with a sample project. The sample project uses Vuetify as the Vue framework and plotly as the plotting framework. To get started, here is the finished product.
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Published January 22, 2019 by theboat with 83 comments
If you get a raise and move up a tax bracket, do you actually lose money? Does a 70% tax rate on the highest earners mean that you'll lose 70% of your income to taxes?
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Friday, January 18, 2019
Published January 18, 2019 by theboat with 2 comments
What are some of the techniques for handling outliers in linear regression, and how do they compare? I evaluate several in Python.
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Sunday, January 13, 2019
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