List of all articles in reverse date order
How I ended up with this blog
Continuous financial processes revisited
50 Year mortgages will not make housing more affordable
Why are newer cars more expensive?
Housing prices are relatively stable — we just buy more
Tendinopathy, the pathology formerly known as tendonitis
How to be an awesome old person (step one: survive a long time. . .)
Pathogenesis and preventative care for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Dad's factorial problem
APY is a dishonest representation of APR
Is my gas oven poisonous?
The Domestic-Engineering accounting app
[Tutorial] The Domestic-Engineering accounting app
Derivation of Spearman's coefficient from Pearson's coefficient
Cannabis — the facts that were lost in the haze
Alcohol — a drug for those with poor decision-making capacity which lowers decision-making capacity
Thalidomide and stereochemistry — a lie from undergraduate organic chemistry
My rebellion against ignorance
Links to all the binary classification articles
Why you should use Viridis and not Jet (rainbow) as a colormap
Measuring the prevalence of disease with imperfect diagnostic tests (part II)
Personal case study — Ford Focus
What to plot and how to plot it
Drugs — how to define them, evaluate them, and consume them
This section is incomplete
Measuring the prevalence of disease with imperfect diagnostic tests
The sensitivity/specificity trade-off
Visualizing problems in binary classification
Tests that lie — uncertainties in STD testing
Risk management in sexual practices — a technical and rigorous introduction to sex education
Wall units or central air?
A \$20 hair trimmer worth \$1000
How efficient could a refrigerator possibly be?
Thanks to the creators of the tools I used to build this blog
A lot of thoughts about refrigerators
How can we cut utility costs?
What tracking electricity can illuminate about energy usage
The difference between budgeting and accounting
Design of an accounting system - how I designed mine
Applying the fundamental account theory - more complications
Applying the fundamental account theory - complications
Applying the fundamental account theory - simple example
Internal rate of return - what it is and when it is undefined
How the Dow Jones Average performed during the Great Depression
A brief history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the Standard and Poor's 500 (S&P500)
How to think about stocks, part 1
All the equations about saving money in one place
The rule of 72, and may I introduce the rule of 108?
A graphical loan calculator
"I would gladly pay a dollar tomorrow for a hamburger today" can be formalized by an ODE
Is it better to have a windfall or save steadily?
Deferred payments create a piecewise integration problem
Balloon payments change the limits on the integral
The error between the finite difference and continuous solutions is less than 1% in all practical cases
In the limit as \(\Delta t\) approaches 0, the finite difference solution approaches the continuous solution
How long does it take to become a millionaire?
How long until I can earn my current income with my savings?
How to read technical, math heavy, material
Personal history with money and the origins of this blog
How much should we pay for better gas mileage?
Home cooking - a job that pays over $40 an hour
The reason for a quantitative view of lifestyle spending
The fundamental theory of accounting — money is a conserved quantity
A rant on the importance of accounting
Saving time until financial independence has a simple closed-form solution
You do not need calculus to use the loan equations
How long can I stop paying on a loan before I have to increase the repayment rate just to keep up with interest?
Loan interest is a function of one parameter but the repayment rate is a function of two
The bank computes loans with a finite difference model
Loans are a first order ordinary differential equation
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Why we should think carefully about money and engineering
