It Was a Piece of Cake, Easy to Bake… It Was Hard As Fuck — The full article can be found here. Sometimes the rewards we seek are difficult, complex, or indirect. These rewards could be pursuing a career, running a marathon, making close-friends, etc. While it is possible that someone could attempt these goals on a whim, and while a complete idiot is not…

A Real Super Model, Champagne Bottles… It Was Disgraceful — The full article can be found here. Sometimes, the rewards are perceptual, ambiguous, and might depend on how you are influenced by your environment and the information you recieve. This could be deciding to have a certain lifestyle, i.e., being charismatic, being in-shape, using name-brands, etc. But why would we…

Mama’s Apple Pie, Like The 4th of July… It Was Reckless — The full article can be found here. There is some level of excitement that comes from living in the moment. To live in the moment is to suspend all judgment. Life becomes a pleasant and/or terrifying surprise. There is some level of satisfaction that comes with being spontaneously ingenious. …

You can act simply yet be effective, be inefficient yet amazing, and have less yet produce more value. — It has been a personal goal of mine to describe some of my inner thoughts, intuitions, and various learnings about hard-work, positive manifestation, confidence, and sacrifice. In this article, I connect strategies, awareness, and personal experiences to the challenges that come with adopting different perspectives to help find ways to…

Moving window aggregation strategies with core PySpark and visualizations with Plotly — There are a ton of time series metrics out there, and many of these metrics have the same preprocessing steps and use cases. In order to limit redundancy, I will focus on three neat metrics with different use cases: Outlier Detection with Rolling Z-Scores Rolling Correlation Matrices Trend Detection with…

Solving Simple Circuits with Parallel Computing and a Brute-Force Solver — Simple circuits often have closed-form solutions, and they are problems that can be solved with algebraic methods. So why try to brute force solve this? In order to begin searching for potential circuit solutions. The circuit’s representation needs to be defined as a combination of variables and static values. Standard…

Creating an Investment Decision Framework — There are various statistical metrics, generated from time series, that can be used, as an aid, in the investment decision process. This article will attempt to capture the essence of the goals and use cases of various metrics as it relates to making investment decisions. I was particularly interested in…

The lack of education on these topics has generated unproductive arguments of risk and probability. — I’m hesitant to write about this as it is touches on a few controversial topics, but if I can help one person understand what I mean, it will be worth it. I often see two sides arguing about a topic describing the same concern, i.e., what is the risk. What…