Averaging down is a strategy where investors buy additional shares of a stock after its price has declined, thereby reducing the average cost per share of their position. The idea is that if a stock drops due to short-term market volatility or temporary setbacks,...
The Traveling Salesman Problem
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a classic puzzle in optimization that’s as fascinating as it is challenging. Imagine you’re planning a road trip where you need to visit a bunch of cities, but you want to do it in the shortest possible way without repeating any...
Item 39 reborn
Rather than talk about what item39.com isn't. Let me tell you what it is. During an all to recent episode of life that found my grandmother in the hospital 5 months shy of her 95th birthday, I found myself in one of those states of mind that is most akin to molting....
Stock Strategy: Averaging Down
So, I wish I were a more saavy investor. But I tend to geek on the maths and the gambling nature of it all. I have a couple of stocks that have done very poorly. One is NEPT, Neptune Wellness, that had a reverse 12:1 split. Meaning for every 12 shares I had, I now...
Mega Millions Results
So in a previous post, I used ChatGPT to write a lottery number simulator/chooser. It is set to a low number of iterations now, but when I ran it through to actually choose the numbers I was going to play, I let it iterate 30 million times per choice. So the number...
Creating a Lottery Number Generator with ChatGPT: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Mega Millions Lottery
I have been messing around with ChatGPT a lot in the last 2 months. I thought it would be interesting to use it to program a random number generator, that also kept track of frequencies of certain numbers over many iterations. Every bit of this code and the css was...
Vehicular.us Update
After a little more than 6 months the Vehicular Experiment has yielded some very interesting lessons. Before I get into lessons learned I want to reiterate the experiment , the goals for the site, the analytics and revenue. I had a collection of low quality...
The Vehicular Experiment
Starting out. That is always the roughest part for me. I always second guess my actions and wonder if I am doing the right things. I do hereby give myself permission to fail. There, that feels better. I am now freed from the idea that everything I do has to be...
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