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So Nielsen analyzed eighty-three of his own product studies.fn2 He plotted how many problems were discovered after ten interviews, twenty interviews, and so on. The results were both consistent and surprising: 85 percent of the problems were observed after just five people.
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To those who saw them up close, Dennis had the capacity to make an observation in an instant that would take someone else weeks of painstaking math to figure out. Even Eckhardt marveled as Dennis’s knack to intuitively see “it”: “Look what this means. Look at the deep axiom in here. It works.” That said, Eckhardt was the mathematical genius. He was
... See moreMichael W. Covel • The Complete TurtleTrader: How 23 Novice Investors Became Overnight Millionaires
Trusting your own judgment is a superpower.
Jim Simons never took a single class on finance, wasn’t interested in business, and didn’t start trading full time until he was 40. The company he founded — Renaissance Technologies — has made over $100 billion in profits.
Starting out with the... See more
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In the introduction to his “Kill Math” project — actually a quite benign, if broadly ambitious, attempt to reimagine mathematical notation in more intuitive and visual terms — Victor declares that “the power to understand and predict the quantities of the world should not be restricted to those with a freakish knack for manipulating abstract... See more
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I suppose I have not actually fleshed out my true argument for why we drop our Von Neumanns. I'll put it here. I think there are stronger examples outside of math bc the IMO is actually very predictive / gamelike, but it's what I know best.
Central Claim: math has gone the the way of chess. This is due to the primary... See more
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This is Edward Thorp.
The genius mathematician that returned 20%+ over 30 years.
He traded for 19 years, with his worst loss being 1%.
He beat Vegas dealers at blackjack.
His top 7 trading strategies (and how they work):... See more