🧵 Computing and visualizing advanced soccer analytics metrics is becoming extremely straightforward. Access to event data and basic programming skills suffice nowadays as free open-source software libraries take care of most of the heavy lifting for you! (1/20)
Things I’d prioritize learning if I was to study to become a ML engineer again:
1. Version control
2. SQL + NoSQL
3. Python
4. Pandas/Dask
5. Data structures
6. Prob & stats
7. ML algos
8. Parallel computing
9. REST API
10. Kubernetes + Airflow
11. Unit/integration tests
I recently had the pleasure of giving a talk to the CSIMA, the Columbia Student Investment Management Association, which I will try to upload to Youtube at some point.
Afterwards, they asked me for a list of investing book recommendations. Here it is:
medium.com/@gavin_baker/i…
My third #bitcoin article! "Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Cross Asset Model (S2FX)". Looking at stock-to-flow, phase transitions, cluster analysis, silver and gold.
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1/ New piece from AQR crossed my desk.
"When to rebalance your portfolio? Little, often, and unswayed by tactical views.”
You know this is my jam.
So a quick thought on tranched rebalancing and fighting the trend...
The IMF foreshadows the depths of the recession the global economy is in. Meanwhile equity markets rally, the positive correlation between growth and returns isn't strong at the best of times I know, but why is it seemingly strongly negative at the worst of them? #ausbiz
Meanwhile, the IMF is looking to provide more dollar liquidity to countries that don't have enough Treasury collateral.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
They cited Indonesia as an example, which my previous chart showed was at risk. There are others like it.
Any good guesses on the structure of Universa’s trades?
I was thinking they might get some more convexity from exotics, but not sure about their ability to monetize those.
Community A beats the virus through mass testing, isolation, culture, and borders.
Community B takes its losses but develops herd immunity.
B is more robust to future outbreaks of the same or similar viruses.
A is more robust to completely novel pathogens and to bioweapons.
Gonna setup a Zoom early next week to go over global market valuations...probably Tuesday.
About half of global stock markets are trading below the valuations US stocks reached at the end of the GFC...and many single digits...lots of opportunity out there!
Preview:
Stoked to announce the launch of the Accelerate Arbitrage Fund, giving investors access to real merger arbitrage (and SPAC arbitrage) in an easy to use, liquid and low-fee ETF. This was a culmination of 13 years of work!
cc @EricBalchunas
1/
accelerateshares.com/press-releases…
Lots of people curious why the market isn't down more given that the economy is set to be down more than the GFC.
It's all about duration and structural weakness. The assumption, so far, is this isn't a structural long-term economic downturn.
We'll see if that's right...
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