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> No, you buy them because you want to support good, non-nefarious companies with sound business models.

No, you really are buying the company stock because of current and future profit prospects. None of this supporting thing... a shareholder is just the owner of the share, nothing more.


> Sentences must be well written, but the overall structure and relationship between the parts is also crucial.

He does not consider that writing is an art form, a means of creative expression, not just to get you idea across. For instance, one of the greatest novels "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands" is confusing and hard to read.


the mind believes what you tell it.

I still can not wrap my head around his incompletness theorem. I have read Hofstadter book about it, but still feel that I'm missing something.

Does anyone knows or has a good write up about it?


> distilling the gist of core concepts

If you wish to instruct, be brief. -- Cicero


I think the course "economics of money and banking" might be of your interest. Really good insights there.

This idea of remembering keybindings in emacs is false. You need a command, a function call, the keybindings are just for convenience...

I would say: don't bother. It's good if you want to use emacs as well.

for some people it makes things easier. Otherwise they would not use it.

agree, the abstract idea of risk can be traced way before the label "risk". Written register of the idea can also be found in Hammurabi's code.

Workflow:

1. copy doi and extract in into zotero (automatic looks for pdf). 2. better-bibtex (zotero add-on) will automatically generate the .bib entry. 3. tex editor automatically recognize bibtex entry. 4. write all the relevant stuff with proper formatting (ready for paper). 5. git and github for sharing.


have you read their page? it is really good https://orgmode.org/.

All Perry Mehrling books are also great. The Fischer Black biography is fascinating for anyone who studied a bit of finance.

anyone fishmans long season?

I wish org-mode was standard and more appreciated. It is so good, but I feel that I'm the only one using it and it is hard to sell emacs to others.

I would like to see Taleb's reaction to this.

On the note of TRAMP. One nice use case is to analyze a large dataset in a remote location and see the result figures on an org-mode buffer in your local emacs instance.

In summary for me: hledger has better csv importing system and ledger has support for lots. I use both.

Well, income getting the negative number only makes sense if you know that it is a credit account that increases with credit.

I used to do this. But now I only register cash expenses. The rest I rely on the bank to keep track of transactions and just use hledger csv rules to create ledger journals. I find it more convenient and since I deal with many bank accounts, I can check the balance on each bank report.

I use that, it is useful for small drawings, not so much for handwriting. When using it with a tablet, maybe with some algorithm improvements, it can be as good as Inkscape.

emacs has existed for many decades already.

Do you get headaches because of your dry eyes? (specifically, after staring at screens for a long time)

I have also used hledger and ledger (specifically the lots feature) for many years. One nice feature of hledger is its csv rules system, which is very flexible. I extended it with simple python scripts to add extra information for registering capital gains. So, end of the day the raw input data is just some csv files with records and the output is financial reports with various levels of detail.

I learned from the structural engineering perspective. What are you struggling with? In my mind I have this logic flow: 1. strong form pde; 2. weak form; 3. discretized weak form; 4. compute integrals (numerically) over each element; 5. assemble the linear system; 6. solve the linear system.

I also use ledger/hledger to process a decade of finances. I reconcile once a year when doing taxes. I have multiple python scripts orchestrated with org-mode to generate reports/plots. I run them in separate processes since they are independent, which makes it fast enough (seconds).

What is Shake?

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