trip to the northern and the Canadian rockies
it's not a competition, but Banff wins.
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idling, adventuring, rambling
markets, history, the classics, and other useless and unimportant things
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tennis parlays are mild randomness
Dustin Brown beating Rafa does not spill over into other matches
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volatility drag in action
real world example of our insidious friend volatility drag
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the man of the cliffs
documentary about Purunga, a traditional cliff fisherman in Peru.
a handful of basic ideas for The Idler
these ideas belong to the world of tinkering rather than to the realm of grand philosophical principles.
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songbook 1 (acoustic)
a list of songs to be practiced and played. In the best case, an important cultural transmission takes place as my kids absorb and develop their taste. In the average case, I just have fun.
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financial crisis headlines (Oct 7, 2008)
just some notes I took while things were unfolding in September and October 2008
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on sampling and its discontents
terrain, models, and inference... the more uncertain the terrain, the less we can rely on sampling
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number 1: ensemble vs. time
a first attempt to disentangle the (on the surface) simple question "what is the expected return?"
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what is it like in June 2026?
Macro temperature check. June 12, 2026.
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the idler capital
the most apt name for an investment endeavor.
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later is now (rediscovering Elliott Smith)
i make my wife and kids listen to Between The Bars
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