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Some reasons I think people like housing as investment: They can use relatively safe leverage to increase the return on equity by three or four times. There are large tax incentive…

I work in legal tech nlp/automation right now. I'd like to chat.

It's interesting to read how Buffett and Munger made their money. They definitely didn't make it by investing in index funds. What Munger is really encouraging in his talks is inte…

This one page isn't a good indicator of a language's popularity. It probably includes results referencing Monty Python, as indicated by the news article headlines, or the animal py…

It would be cool if you could search arXiv.org with this or maybe even subscription math/physics journal sites like JSTOR. Paid search results might be an opportunity for partial f…

I always liked this visual representation of the central limit theorem: http://blog.vctr.me/posts/central-limit-theorem.html . There is a faster one here (I think written in R): ht…

As a math graduate student, I second the choice for Abbott's "Understanding Calculus". It's a wonderful beginning book for analysis. Walter Rudin's "Principle's of Mathematical Ana…