Why I’m Against Optimisation
Whenever I’m browsing investing and personal finance content I see a word that makes me sick: “Optimisation” We are told
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Statistical Inference
This Stat Pisses Me Off
There is one investing statistic that I see more than any other. I’ll be innocently browsing twitter or in the
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Nothing Can Hedge Against Inflation
We have already discussed how and why inflation is bad for you, investment-wise. All returns should only be considered after
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Statistics Is Useless Part II: The Consequences
As we have seen in Part I, statistics is hard. The improper use of statistics can lead us to having
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Statistics Is Useless Part I: The Problem
Classical statistics is reliant on the fact that observations about the past tell us something about the future. This is
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Why Things Happen
Recently I have been thinking a lot about causality, largely triggered by reading The Book of Why and Fooled By
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Induction: Hume vs. Keynes
At the beginning of Part III of Keynes’s A Treatise on Probability he quotes the anti-inductive argument made by Hume
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