Big Al

• 2026-07-18 — Robert Parker’s 100-point wine rating system, from Nils Poertner
• 2026-07-02 — Best Patrick O’Brian entry point?, Asindu Drileba
• 2026-06-22 — The Lost World of the Kalahari, from Nils Poertner
• 2026-06-01 — Book reccy, from Zubin Al Genubi
• 2026-05-26 — A deck of cards, from Jeff Watson
• 2026-05-14 — Study of Deception, from Sushil Kedia
• 2026-05-11 — ChatGPT moment for robotics?, from Humbert Q.
• 2026-04-20 — Podcast series on Trafalgar, from Big Al
• 2026-03-17 — T35 & Political Aggression In the Middle East, from Asindu Drileba
• 2026-03-15 — Keith Jarrett, from Nils Poertner
• 2026-02-05 — Gaming tournament going on between AI versions, from Big Al
• 2026-02-01 — Does January predict the next 11 months?, from Big Al
• 2026-01-21 — US Stock Mkt Value as pc of GDP (US), from Humbert X.
• 2026-01-08 — Relevant animal behavior study, from Big Al
• 2025-12-09 — Interesting AI read, from Big Al
• 2025-10-28 — Entertaining valuation exercise, from Big Al
• 2025-10-20 — Calming musical interlude for spicy markets, from Big Al
• 2025-10-18 — Lessons from The Godfather
• 2025-09-11 — Power Laws in Economics and Finance, from Big Al
• 2025-09-06 — The Evolution of Infantry War-Fighting, from Stefan Jovanovich
• 2025-09-03 — Data centers and power demand, from Big Al
• 2025-08-25 — Robert Z. Aliber, 1930-2025, from Alex Castaldo
• 2025-08-17 — Best video on Punnett square, from Asindu Drileba
• 2025-08-08 — Trickery and deception
• 2025-08-01 — How do you fight the Vig?, from Asindu Drileba
• 2025-07-26 — Dispersion, from Big Al
• 2025-07-22 — Smörgåsbord
• 2025-07-21 — CPI Data Quality Declining
• 2025-07-05 — DailySpeculations calendar colors, from Big Al
• 2025-07-03 — Sports $$$, from Big Al
• 2025-06-01 — A book rec, from Big Al
• 2025-05-28 — Adapting to the situation, from Big Al
• 2025-05-22 — Books on markets before 1900, from Asindu Drileba
• 2025-05-17 — Runs of “up” days in the S&P, from Big Al
• 2025-05-13 — A call for great new books, from Jeffrey Hirsch
• 2025-05-08 — Fuzzy thinking, from Nils Poertner
• 2025-05-03 — Domestication, from Big Al
• 2025-04-18 — What do you use Linear Regression for?, from Asindu Drileba
• 2025-03-30 — Counting study: Quarter end rebalancing, from Steve Ellison
• 2025-03-15 — The Cosmic Distance Ladder, from Big Al
• 2025-03-10 — If war is a racket, where are the market gains?, from Asindu Drileba
• 2025-02-21 — Spec sampler
• 2025-02-10 — Sports betting; prediction markets (updated)
• 2025-01-10 — Energy, from Carder Dimitroff
• 2024-12-12 — Positively aging, from Kim Zussman
• 2024-11-30 — Productivity and AI, from David Lillienfeld
• 2024-11-24 — Stops, from Hernan Avella
• 2024-10-19 — Basic counting, applied to the healthcare system, from Big Al
• 2024-10-15 — Jensen’s inequality, from Big Al
• 2024-10-08 — Government planning and efficiency, from Big Al
• 2024-10-04 — The multiple comparisons problem, from Big Al
• 2024-10-02 — Maybe G*d plays dice after all, from Kim Zussman
• 2024-09-30 — Ed Thorp hosts Joseph Granville at UC Irvine (1981), from Big Al
• 2024-09-27 — Hedge funds and the positive idiosyncratic volatility effect, from Big Al
• 2024-09-15 — Streaks of down days, from Big Al
• 2024-09-10 — A statistical read relevant to trader research, from Big Al
• 2024-08-16 — Smart guy talks about AI, from Big Al
• 2024-08-10 — Grip strength, chair rise-time, one-legged balance predict life expectancy, Kim Zussman
• 2024-08-05 — How bacteria use the Kelly criterion, from Asindu Drileba
• 2024-07-30 — Intermittent fasting and your noodle, from Kim Zussman
• 2024-07-23 — Larry Williams and the Big Sky Games, from Pamela Van Giessen
• 2024-07-22 — Probability matching, from Big Al
• 2024-07-13 — Goldman Sachs prediction, from K. K. Law
• 2024-07-06 — Identifying Tourism Opportunities With Credit Default Swaps, from Asindu Drileba
• 2024-06-17 — NVDA, from Big Al
• 2024-06-15 — Megacaps in Random Land, from Big Al
• 2024-06-11 — Recession of recession indicator, from Kim Zussman
• 2024-06-04 — Anguilla’s country domain is “.ai”. Guess what?, from Big Al
• 2024-05-29 — A good overview, from Hernan Avella
• 2024-05-24 — Slow to adapt, from Big Al
• 2024-05-22 — AI again: weather forecasting, from Big Al
• 2024-05-18 — Following the money, from Asindu Drileba
• 2024-05-13 — TLT returns, from Big Al
• 2024-05-08 — Commodities voyeurism (and also some ride-hitching for Bo), from Big Al
• 2024-04-25 — FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes, from Big Al
• 2024-04-24 — Pandemics good for profits, from Big Al
• 2024-04-19 — Sins of omission, from Big Al
• 2024-04-18 — Sooner or later, from Nils Poertner
• 2024-04-06 — Daniel Kahneman on regression to the mean, from Big Al
• 2024-04-05 — Disruption wins: 3% of companies created all the wealth, from Humbert H.
• 2024-03-25 — History of KC BBQ, from Humbert Humbert
• 2024-03-24 — An Alternate Understanding of “All Time High”, from Asindu Drileba
• 2024-03-13 — Contextualization, from Asindu Drileba
• 2024-02-22 — Games again, from Big Al
• 2024-02-21 — Unforgettable and brilliant things
• 2024-02-19 — Trailhead (or rabbit hole), from Big Al
• 2024-02-05 — Trading smörgåsbord
• 2024-01-28 — Revelations of The Prisoners Dilemma, from Asindu Drileba
• 2024-01-26 — With direct applications to markets
• 2024-01-25 — David Deutsch on Bayesianism, from Asindu Drileba
• 2024-01-22 — The Poisson Process and Poisson Distribution, from Asindu Drileba
• 2024-01-19 — Numberphile interview with Jim Simons, from Big Al
• 2024-01-16 — IID, from Zubin Al Genubi
• 2024-01-14 — The Wisdom of Rationals, from Asindu Drileba
• 2024-01-10 — Mises Stationarity Index, from Zubin Al Genubi
• 2023-12-31 — A diet shock Bill Gates does not mention, from Larry Williams
• 2023-12-19 — Optimizing profit over time, from Zubin Al Genubi
• 2023-12-19 — Arithmetic vs geometric average returns, from Zubin Al Genubi
• 2023-12-18 — TLT follow-up, from Big Al
• 2023-09-18 — AI hype, from Nils Poertner
• 2023-09-08 — Reliability of econ figures, from H. Humbert
• 2023-08-29 — TLT? from Michael Brush
• 2023-05-29 — Vig and the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, from Nils Poertner
• 2023-05-18 — Simple modeling, from Zubin Al Genubi
• 2023-05-18 — RIP “macher”, from Big Al
• 2023-05-10 — Sell in May and go away, from Big Al
• 2023-04-22 — International (viz the USA) diversification, from Big Al
• 2023-03-19 — Counting the Final Four, from Big Al
• 2023-02-27 — Statistical hypothesis testing in trading strategy development, from Leo Jia
• 2023-01-26 — Nice quantitative analysis for the Counting 101 class, from Big Al
• 2022-12-07 — Trial and error, from Big Al
• 2022-12-01 — Questions that lead to excuses
• 2022-11-16 — Tells
• 2022-10-11 — Interesting cultural lagniappe, from Big Al
• 2022-08-30 — Practical applications of counting beyond finance /trading, from Nils Poertner
• 2022-08-30 — Keeping charts by hand, an interview with Helene Meisler
• 2022-07-31 — Equipment, from Zubin Al Genubi
• 2022-04-13 — Skills transfer, from Big Al
• 2022-04-07 — Washington Inoculates an Army, from Big Al
• 2022-03-20 — Jevon’s paradox, from Big Al
• 2022-02-18 — An old canard, from Jeff Watson
• 2022-02-03 — Musical intuition, from Nils Poertner
• 2022-01-19 — Rate hikes and stock market returns, from Zubin Al Genubi
• 2021-10-20 — Sleep patterns and disruption, from Big Al
• 2020-12-14 — Historical Humanitarian lagniappe
• 2020-12-10 — Study of Horse Handicappers
• 2020-12-10 — 2020 Election - Supreme Court
• 2020-10-09 — What Happened in 2018
• 2015-04-02 — Mattel’s New CEO, from Big Al
• 2014-09-11 — Best Podcasts, from Jim Wildman
• 2014-03-05 — Almost, from Big Al
• 2011-01-24 — Burgers, by Big Al
• 2010-06-25 — Nemo, by Victor Niederhoffer
• 2008-12-26 — Ponzi, from Big Al
• 2008-12-23 — Risk Aversion at the Tables, from Big Al
• 2008-12-20 — Some Good Q, from Big Al
• 2006-09-25 — Victor Niederhoffer on Negativity and the Markets
• 2006-09-25 — Negativity and the Markets
• 2006-01-24 — Victor Niederhoffer: Asking the Right Questions
• 2005-08-22 — Three Variations on Duplicity