I’m migrating this blog over to substack. I’ll keep this blog around and will write the next posts in both platforms, but I hope to eventually move away from Medium to exclusively substack. I’ve been blogging for a few years about machine learning, finance or whatever else that captured my…

Consumer Reports recently released a review of the current driving assistance monitoring systems. This is for the Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Lane Keeping Assistance (LKA) features in new cars. Here are the results: Shameless plug: The founder of comma.ai, George Hotz, did a great interview with Lex Fridman that…

George Hotz is the founder of comma.ai, a company that sells a device that you install in your car that will drive for you. The device supports over 50 cars and has driven over 30 million miles. …

NOTE: I’ve moving this blog over to substack. Subscribe there for new posts or to read others Nassim Taleb is best known for his books, particularly Black Swan, but he’s also known for his memorable expressions. They are so well regarded, he put them all in a book . They’re…

Here’s a cool app. Give a description of a website and have one built for you using GPT-3 magic. Here’s an example: A website like apple.com for twitter But with demos like this, you have to read below the fold:

There’s a Reddit bot that explains jokes. Well, that’s not exactly true, because its too good to be a bot and is curiously selective. Often times, the explanation is funnier than the joke. It hasn’t been active in about a year, but here’s an example: My wife and I went…

Warren Buffet is not shy when it comes to giving away his investment strategy. In fact, he attributes 85% of his investment strategy to a single book, The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham. The Intelligent Investor was originally published in 1949 and revised most recently in 1973. …

NOTE: I’ve moving this blog over to substack. Subscribe there for new posts or to read others There’s been a number of stories about sketchy stock trades made by US senators. …

NOTE: I’ve moving this blog over to substack. Subscribe there for new posts or to read others TLDR: When placing a wager, choosing a bet size is as important as an edge. Kelly Criterion is a simple formula that determines the bet size for the highest growth in repeated games…