Personal blog on early retirement and analytics projects. I write about what I learn as I am learning it.
So, I never thought blogging would be easy, and I started mostly because 1) I thought learning to blog would be fun and, 2) I had quit my regular/full-time/corporate/”real” job and it appeared that I would have a lot of time on my hands (haha, little did I know…). BUT! no matter how hard you think blogging is, it is harder.
I will share here what I went through deciding whether to go with Mint or Personal Capital. And why do I even keep one of them…
In trying to keep the title short I left out that I am talking about computer sports rankings made with artificial neural networks (competitive neural networks to be more specific), as initially explained in an earlier post. That original post was based on a paper that didn’t effectively assess the home/visitor advantage (if there is one) so here I am proposing a way to address the issue.
Snow White had a lot to put up with (besides the Witch and the Prince) in this German folk story chronicled by the Brothers Grimm and brought to most of us by a Disney film from 1937 (80 years!)
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Continue reading “The Seven Dwarfs of Early Retirement”The US Constitution establishes an indirect system to elect the president and vice president. People elect a college (a group) of electors that then elects the president. This used to be a non-issue and non-event for ages up until in November of 2000 the election was so close in Florida that it required waiting for a few weeks and a Supreme Court decision to decide the winner. Another eventful election happened in 2016 (sans the Supreme Court intervention).
Continue reading “Electoral College Optimization”