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Lower the Risk, Then Raise It!
My favourite investing strategy for beginners and long-term investors: simplify with an index, then add the performance back with leverage.
GeneExpert
A foundation model for bulk RNA-Seq gene expression data. More to come once it's published.
Featured in UBC's “Meet our Students” Series
Excited to be highlighted in the UBC Graduate School's Meet our Students series.
Why I Stopped Expecting a Big Crash?
On a log scale, the S&P 500 looks a lot more linear than the headlines suggest. Here's what that tells me, and what it doesn't.
Start with Why
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action — Simon Sinek
Why getting the purpose right from the start matters more than any amount of data, motivation or competition.
Ikigai
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life — Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
What the longest-living people can teach us about purpose, flow, and doing one thing at a time.
A Vancouver AI Community I've Been Learning From
If you're curious about AI and want to meet others who are too, VAM! might be worth checking out.
Learning Finance with MIT's Finance Theory I
I'm halfway through MIT's free Finance Theory I course and loving it. Here's why you should watch it too.
Notes on Being a Man
Notes on Being a Man — Scott Galloway
Less a manual for me than a window into Scott Galloway and how he sees life.
Greenlights
Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey's memoir about life's red lights, yellow lights and greenlights.
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir — Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry's candid memoir about fame, Friends, and his long struggle with addiction.
Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones — James Clear
Not much new if you've read others on the subject, but if this is your first book on habits, it's a must-read.
Born a Crime
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood — Trevor Noah
One of the first biographies I read, full of Trevor Noah's childhood stories.
The Psychology of Money
The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel
A book I really enjoyed reading and learned a lot from.
Goal-Oriented Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models
Bringing LLMs into an end-to-end driving pipeline to give it a goal and focus its attention on what matters in the scene.
Depth Estimation with Online Calibration for Autonomous Driving
Monocular and stereo depth estimation, with camera calibration and absolute scale recovered on the fly.
Urban Driving with a Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Agent
A Dreamer-inspired agent that learns to drive in a simulator and keeps adapting to the driver for a more comfortable ride.
Prediction and Planning for Robotics and Autonomous Driving
A comprehensive study of end-to-end and modular autonomous driving pipelines.
Multi-Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction from the Ego Vehicle
Predicting where pedestrians will go, modelling both individual and social behaviour.
Efficient 2D Object Detection for Production Line Inspection
A family of fast RetinaNet-style detectors for industrial inspection, extended to reading text.
