Returns, risk-adjusted ratios, metrics
Finance
You can easily double the investment and also double your return right? Not really, because you are doubling the risk as well… read on to see why.
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding" - Leonardo Da Vinci
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" - Albert Einstein
Gasherbrum2 - the web app
Mountaineering
One of the most important things in mountaineering is the weather, so ladies and gentlemen, I present you Gasherbrum2 web app (not very inspired name, but it is what it is).
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Gasherbrum2 - the aftermath
Mountaineering
To make a long story short I am going to lay down only a few DOs/DON'Ts (as a reminder for myself), the raw and uncut (but spellchecked) journal, and the expenses for the curious minds.
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Gasherbrum2 - how to compare gear
Mountaineering
I need to choose between a 229 EUR down hoody that weights 319g and one that is 269 EUR and 420g… which one will you go for?
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Gasherbrum2 - gear list
Mountaineering
Always changing gear list, updated for high altitude mountaineering Gasherbrum2 expedition.
Naming conventions:
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Gasherbrum2 - training plan
Mountaineering
With only two months remaining until the Gasherbrum2 expedition I put together a training plan, kind of writting in stone, let's see how it goes.
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New Market Wizards
Review
The second market wizards book, named simply New Market Wizards was actually published before the Hedge Fund Market Wizards book, a bit older but as the saying goes… oldies but goldies.
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Bias vs. Variance
Statistics
I don't know about others but when I started digging into machine-learning I had some problems understanding bias-variance until I found a nice target shooting analogy.
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Historical volatility
Trading
Historical volatility (also called realized volatility) measures how far the normal standard deviation is from expected mean, over a given period of time.
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Whale alert
Trading
Very simple pivot-point indicator that tries to detect whales' presence by checking the spikes in volume at the same UTC hour for the last 3 days.
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