It’s not the easiest thing to get going with Python in 2025. If you’re used to working with something like R, the experience with Python is likely to be less than you hoped.
On starting a new Matlab installation on Ubuntu, I got the message
Does stock market volatility bother me? It actually doesn’t. I don’t lose any sleep or worry about my retirement funds at all.
This is a short note to explain why it might make sense to take a very conservative approach to your retirement portfolio. It’s a response to the blanket advice so often given that you’re making a massive error if you go ultraconservative.
Disclaimer: I’m not a finance researcher. I’ve read finance papers over the years, handled some finance papers for an academic journal, and even published a couple papers with finance content. That doesn’t make me a “finance guy”! This is a blog p...
My early research was dominated by the topic of inflation. I’m not going to go into the details of that today. Instead, I want to respond to some things I see in various places on the internet (Reddit, HN, YouTube, …).
I’ve written about retirement in other posts on this blog. My target retirement age has been 70 for about as long as I’ve been doing serious planning for retirement. I’ve begun to change that to 67, in the sense of using 70 for the initial calcula...
Every two or three years, I go crazy with retirement planning for a few weeks. I’m back at it again. The big change from my last deep dive - at least for me - is the explosion of retirement content on YouTube. There’s a lot of good advice on ther...
I don’t often work on Windows, but there are a couple of times that I need to do so: If I want to share a program I’ve written with a Windows user. I obviously have to get it to compile on Windows. If I only have access to a Windows machine....
Here are some notes for myself as I’m getting betterr to run on Windows: Working with shared libraries on Windows is seriously not fun. The only way I got the program to run was to copy all DLLs and their dependencies into the directory with...