Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Personal Update

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Thought I'd just share some random thoughts given that have just completed a major 29-week book review. a) My dad is still at hospi...
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Monday, July 29, 2019

The Model Thinker (Final Episode) - Income Inequality

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I can't believe that we've arrived at the final chapter of this 29-week long exercise. In this final chapter, the author applies...
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Saturday, July 27, 2019

Is it time for SIAMFIRE ?

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I am an outlier Singaporean man because I do not go to Bangkok to hire prostitutes. In fact, my effect is so powerful that my friends wh...
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Thursday, July 25, 2019

Can your money ever be happy ?

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When reviewing the financial literature of the moment, one of the questions  I ask myself is whether a particular book or story can dethr...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

The Model Thinker #27 - Rugged Landscape Models

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Imagine if we were to run a project to determine the optimal point of leverage for an investment portfolio. If an investor employs too low...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

The inevitable rise of the Second Fiddle Husband.

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In a better age, our daughters should be looking for Second Fiddle Husbands. If you examine the 2017 data on local universities, out of ...
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Friday, July 19, 2019

Treat your personal finances like a balanced RPG party.

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As it turns out, while I was reading Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen, I was also playing Pathfinder:Kingmaker so I was able shoeho...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Master/Slave Morality in Personal Finance

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The dichotomy between master and slave morality was proposed by Friedrich Nietzsche and made immensely popular by the writings of Mark Manso...
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Monday, July 15, 2019

The Model Thinker #26 - Multi Armed Bandit Problems

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In my opinion, this chapter was not written very well and I had to google some Youtube videos to really understand the concepts this time ...
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Saturday, July 13, 2019

The Great Sexual Recession of 2019

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Singapore's GDP had a nasty Q2. quarter to quarter it shrank 3.4% surprising many economists. The effect of this result prompted a su...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019

The Standard Model of Success

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In Physics, the Standard Model is a theory that describes three out of the four fundamental forces of the Universe as well as categorizing...
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Tuesday, July 09, 2019

The Model Thinker #26 - Learning Models

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Learning models can find a lot of useful applications in investing and gaming. Reinforcement learning models how individuals choose an a...
Sunday, July 07, 2019

The Shopping List and a minor Personal Update

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Yesterday BIGScribe, the company a couple of investment bloggers incorporated, paid a huge dividend. To let you guys to understand the k...
Friday, July 05, 2019

Thoughts from attending E-Commerce Seminar Previews.

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There was one last preview I attended prior to my trip to Australia and that is one that talks about E-Commerce. This last talk was drain...
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Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Debunking the Souffle Life post Financial Independence

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There is a particular lifestyle in Singapore that I could not really put my mouth to it - I wanted to christen it "The Souffle Lifest...
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Monday, July 01, 2019

The Model Thinker #25 - Signaling Models

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Signalling models are very important in Singapore society. These models identify conditions under which people send costly signals to reve...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Further Insights into Astrea IV and Astrea V bonds.

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I'm a little slow to the Astrea IV and Astrea V bonds issue but I think I can add something that to the excellent articles that are alre...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

The Model Thinker #24 - Mechanism Design.

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This chapter focuses on designing political and economic institutions. I will shoehorn this chapter into a discussion about the relative s...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Thoughts on my Australian Trip.

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I just wanted to round up my trip to Brisbane and the Gold Coast. First of all, no one can speak with much authority having gone on a 7 ...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

More insights from attending real estate seminar previews

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I'm not a saint. To become a good trainer I do attend previews from other trainers. When I do attend these previews, I have to with ho...
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