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by fiby41
Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:07 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Under the Yoke
Replies: 207
Views: 77169

Under the Yoke for February 2024

Found one ear bud inside its charging cover fallen on the curb at a turn near home but let rickshaw driver take it. Found a discarded pair of shoes with soles broken near office, brought them home, needs replacement but could be useful as gym shoes after present ones give out. Giving wired earphones...
by fiby41
Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:55 am
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: Future of Artificial Intelligence
Replies: 130
Views: 58255

Re: Future of Artificial Intelligence

bostonimproper wrote:
Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:36 am
getting people in the doors and locked into their partner cloud provider ecosystem
Incidently GCP has nearly waved off its egress fees starting last month.
by fiby41
Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:29 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Trilemmas
Replies: 71
Views: 30810

Re: Trilemmas

Jobs

Interesting
Well paid
Legal
by fiby41
Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:07 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Trilemmas
Replies: 71
Views: 30810

Re: Trilemmas

Talking about charged topics:

Simple
Accurate
Well received
(Pick two)

From the book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
by fiby41
Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:54 am
Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
Topic: Surrounded by Idiots and Psychopaths
Replies: 3
Views: 455

Surrounded by Idiots and Psychopaths

Has anyone read Surrounded by Idiots and Surrounded by Psychopaths: How to Protect Yourself from Being Manipulated and Exploited in Business (and in Life)? From the back cover: Using the same simple four-color system of behavior classification that made Surrounded by Idiots so popular, Surrounded by...
by fiby41
Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:35 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Under the Yoke
Replies: 207
Views: 77169

Under the Yoke for January 2023, part 2

Got old phone repaired. There is an iPhone 7 lying in the flat whose password father forgot, then the SIM expired of 3 months of no recharge so cannot receive OTP for resetting password. The phone was a gift, the SIM is registered on gifter's wife's name, and dad is deadbeat lethargic. I had colated...
by fiby41
Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:54 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Under the Yoke
Replies: 207
Views: 77169

Under the Yoke for January 2023

Savings rate was 38.09% Expense rate was 61.91% Aggregate income fell to a third less than that of the previous month whereas aggregate expense rose to 6 times than that of the previous month. Aggregate savings rose by a paltry 1.82% Phone died leading to a replacement cost. Capital expenditure to b...
by fiby41
Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:03 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Ether's Journal
Replies: 72
Views: 20646

Re: Ether's Journal

Congrats but your discoverdata site is down. Consider putting up that content on a forum thread perhaps?
by fiby41
Sat Jan 20, 2024 1:08 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: GreenMonsta Journal
Replies: 68
Views: 8442

Re: GreenMonsta Journal

1. Where are the Customers’ Yachts by Fred Schwed 2. Devil take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor 3. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay. The first book is in the public domain. I haven't read the second but it was heavyly referenced in this memo of Howard Ma...
by fiby41
Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:39 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Freedom through Frugality: Sabaka's Journal
Replies: 164
Views: 76414

Re: Freedom through Frugality: Sabaka's Journal

Sabaka wrote:
Mon Jan 01, 2024 5:39 am
Time to set out some goals for 2024...

6. Read 1 book per month.
Personalised recommendation for you: How the Scots Invented the Modern World
by fiby41
Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:51 am
Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
Topic: What is Systems Thinking?
Replies: 1
Views: 595

What is Systems Thinking?

Resources to understand systems thinking:

What Is Systems Thinking?: https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsroom/ ... s-thinking

• Introduction to systems thinking: https://lethain.com/systems-thinking/

• Thinking in Systems by Donella-H-Meadows
by fiby41
Fri Dec 29, 2023 3:54 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Under the Yoke
Replies: 207
Views: 77169

Under the Yoke for December 2023

Income in December was 15.52% more than the income in November making it the month with the highest income on record with a margin of 6.66% over the month with the second highest income which was October 2023. Income from operating activity contributed 57.65% towards total income Rental Income contr...
by fiby41
Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:57 am
Forum: Friends, Family, Relationships, and Community Questions
Topic: Marriage: how to maintain it
Replies: 53
Views: 12835

Re: Marriage: how to maintain it

Lowering expectations.
by fiby41
Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:50 am
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: Future of Artificial Intelligence
Replies: 130
Views: 58255

Re: Future of Artificial Intelligence

TechCrunch| Google’s best Gemini demo was faked https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/googles-best-gemini-demo-was-faked Here are some more relevant reading materials if one wants to take a deep dive: Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemi...
by fiby41
Thu Nov 30, 2023 12:34 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Under the Yoke
Replies: 207
Views: 77169

Under the Yoke for November 2023

November 2023 was the most expensive month on record so it deserves going into the 91 line items of transactions: Operating expenses were food at 19.5% and transportation at 15.09% of total expenses. Remaining were financing expenses and charity. Savings rate was 82.64% with 28 month rolling average...
by fiby41
Sat Nov 18, 2023 2:25 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Under the Yoke
Replies: 207
Views: 77169

You've this life so live it well, take out a loan but drink ghee, once the body is burnt to ashes, there is no re-entry

Loan: Divided the amount taken out on loan into three equal parts and invested them into: 1. Dematerialized senior debentures of a private limited company with monthly coupon payments and 24 months tenure secured by pass through rights to the underlying land of 24 acres it is developing 1 km from a ...
by fiby41
Sat Nov 18, 2023 11:21 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: The triangle P/E, P/B and ROE
Replies: 6
Views: 1085

Re: The triangle P/E, P/B and ROE

If you buy the company and repay all its debt, the firm would not owe any interest expense to financiers. This will positively impact the bottom line and P/E ratio would decrease. If a company is selling for below its book value (P/B < 1) you could buy it to liquidate its assets in scrap for a profi...
by fiby41
Sat Nov 11, 2023 2:58 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Veronica's Journal of Madness
Replies: 79
Views: 18768

Re: Veronica's Journal of Madness

Just looked up the frame.work website and their products look amazing although unavailable in my country.

Had signed up for getting refurbished laptops at work but few people else were interested so the plan was scrapped.
by fiby41
Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:04 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Where the water buffalo roam
Replies: 5
Views: 3597

Re: Where the water buffalo roam

I've so far parsed the D as the, DD the daughter, DS the son etc.