Kalanand's July 2016 Log

July 8th

Return on Investment in the S&P 500 over the past 145 years!

It's mind-boggling to see what happens when a "buy and hold" strategy is implemented and how well that performs.

Along the same lines I found the following article about the historic worth of gold very informative:
The Price of Gold, 1257 − Present

July 27th

Homebrew sequence

   brew update
   brew upgrade
   brew install <my_package>

Curriculum learning LSTM articles

• "Learning to Execute", Zaremba and Sutskever, arxiv:1410.4615
• github:shagunsodhani/b44b29b86cdfe1b6bae4286253f76350
• github:dennybritz/deeplearning-papernotes

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