Support my content by signing up for Medium or by learning more about investing, dividend investing, or options trading (Amazon affiliate links). NOTE: this is not investment advice. In this post, two big questions are answered with respect to income investing: what is risk, and what is the expected return…

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Note: code for this project can be found on the project’s GitHub page. Inspiration In a series of recent posts, I wrote about a combinatorial object called a Latin square, a class in written C++ used to work with these objects, and some GPGPU (General Purpose GPU) algorithms I have developed…

According to a RapidAPI blog post, the most popular languages/frameworks used to build APIs are PHP, NodeJS, and Python (by a pretty fair margin). It is not often the case that languages like C++ are used for this purpose as it is a little outside of their purview. I’ve experienced…

In a previous post, I wrote about a combinatorial object known as a Latin square. I also discussed some research I had previously done and some research directions for working with these objects. Particularly, I mention the need for efficient algorithms to generate and process these objects. One objective I…

Earlier this year while doing some consulting work, I was required to parse JSON files downloaded from a URL in C++. This is a task easily done in most languages with many having built-in libraries to handle reading and writing JSON files (e.g. the json package in Python). In the…

In most of the work I do, the ability to easily plot data in Python is a major determinate when choosing a programming language for a project. A while back I was looking into what it would take to replace my Python machine learning workflow with C++ tools. Unfortunately, there…

The Taylor series of a function is an infinite sum of terms that uses information about the derivative of the function to create a polynomial that approximates the function. More accurate approximations can be determined by taking higher-order derivatives and using higher degree polynomials. Many posts about the Taylor series…

Recently I’ve been reading Benoit Mandelbrot’s book The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence (this is an affiliate link for Amazon, if a purchase is made via this link I will receive a portion of the proceeds). Early in this book Mandelbrot discusses one major issue with…