I ❤️ open source, and, Cloud9 still rocks

Marton Trencseni - Fri 05 April 2024 • Tagged with coding, ide, c9, open, source

For the past 8 years I've been using Cloud9 for writing code in the cloud, and I can wholeheartedly recommend it: it just works for me. 7 years ago AWS acquired the company, so the project is no longer developed. However, this is not a problem, since it still just works. The only problem I ever had was a minor UI bug, which I fixed in a couple of minutes, as detailed in this post. This was possible because Cloud9 is open-source. I ❤️ open source.

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Papers

Marton Trencseni - Sat 30 March 2024 • Tagged with academia, papers

A compilation of academic-style papers I have written over the years.

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Stock returns of simple trading strategies

Marton Trencseni - Fri 22 March 2024 • Tagged with trading, sharpe, winratio, nasdaw

I clean up the code I wrote for earlier posts, and run simple trading experiments.

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The volatility of simple trading strategy returns

Marton Trencseni - Sat 09 March 2024 • Tagged with markowitz, volatility

I investigate the volatility of aggressive take-profit strategies on tech stocks.

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Introductory investigations into the stability of stock price volatility

Marton Trencseni - Sun 25 February 2024 • Tagged with markowitz, volatility

I investigate the volatility of some securities, and its stability over time.

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2024 Data Outlook

Marton Trencseni - Sun 11 February 2024 • Tagged with outlook, 2024, datahub, capm

It is the beginning of the year — a good time to reflect on the previous year and make plans for the year ahead. I wrote this document for my team members in 2024 January to kick off the year. This is an abridged version with sensitive content removed.

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How to achieve high performance, and, ratings

Marton Trencseni - Sun 21 January 2024 • Tagged with okr, goaling, performance, people, management

I wrote this document for my team members — Data Scientists and Data Engineers — to help them do a better on their annual performance reviews.

Watts-Strogatz

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Wordcount III: Beating the system `wc`

Marton Trencseni - Fri 29 September 2023 • Tagged with c++, wc

In this follow-up to the previous article about writing a C++ version of the Unix command-line utility wc, I make some modifications to beat my system wc in performance tests.

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Wordcount II: Introducing a cleaner C++ class hierarchy to `wc`

Marton Trencseni - Sat 23 September 2023 • Tagged with c++, wc

In this follow-up to the previous article about writing a C++ version of the Unix command-line utility wc, I make the class structure more complicated to keep separate concerns and functionality in different C++ classes. The result ends up being significantly more complex than the original, but does not make the overall program easier to understand or modify.

wc

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Wordcount I: Implementing the Unix command-line tool `wc` in modern C++

Marton Trencseni - Sun 10 September 2023 • Tagged with c++, wc

After reading the excellent book Beautiful C++ about the language's latest features, I implement the Unix command-line tool wc in modern C++.

Beautiful C++

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Better be first 99% of the time than second 100% of the time

Marton Trencseni - Fri 25 August 2023 • Tagged with book, hft, trading, fpga

A review of the Donald MacKenzie's book Trading at the Speed of Light, which gives an excellent history and inside-peek of the world of High Frequency Trading, or HFT.

Trading at the Speed of Light

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Introduction to Marketing Mix Modeling

Marton Trencseni - Sun 23 July 2023 • Tagged with mmm, marketing, mixed, model, lightweight_mmm, google, python

I describe the concept of Marketing Mix Modeling using Google's LightweightMMM library.

MMM attribution

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Leadership models V: The Hero's Journey

Marton Trencseni - Fri 23 June 2023 • Tagged with leadership, mental, models, first-principles

The Hero's Journey, or Monomyth, is a narrative pattern identified by scholar Joseph Campbell that appears across a wide range of cultures and eras, and is also a useful mental model in Leadership.

Peter principle

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Real-world experiments: 5 Lessons from Google, Bing, Netflix and Alibaba

Marton Trencseni - Sun 18 June 2023 • Tagged with ab-testing

I discuss five lessons from large-scale experiments conducted by Google, Bing, Netflix and Alibaba: Kohavi's 1 out of 3 rule, Google's 41 shades of blue, Bing's unexpected big win, Alibaba's personalization experiment and Netflix' movie image personalization.

Netflix

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Conditional Probabilities and Simpson's Paradox

Marton Trencseni - Sun 11 June 2023 • Tagged with probability, statistics, simpsons, paradox

I give examples of "unintuitive" conditional probabilities and discuss Simpson's paradox.

Simpson's paradox

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Testing GPT-4 spatial reasoning and comprehension

Marton Trencseni - Sun 21 May 2023 • Tagged with gpt, gpt-4

I run experiments to determine whether, or to what degree, GPT-4 has developed an comprehension of spatial relationships. I find that it it significantly better than GPT-3.

GPT-3

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Leadership models IV: the Pareto Principle, the Peter Principle, the Rumsfeld Matrix, Servant Leadership and Pygmalion Effect, and Goleman's Emotional Intelligence Model

Marton Trencseni - Fri 19 May 2023 • Tagged with leadership, mental, models, first-principles

In this post, I describe the Pareto Principle, the Peter Principle, the Rumsfeld Matrix, Servant Leadership and Pygmalion Effect, and finally Goleman's Emotional Intelligence Model.

Peter principle

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Leadership models III: First Principles Thinking

Marton Trencseni - Tue 16 May 2023 • Tagged with leadership, mental, models, first-principles

I describe Elon Musk's First Principles Thinking model through several examples: SpaceX, Warren Buffet's Berkshire, Google's organization design, Python's language design, Random Forests and Convolutional Neural Networks.

Elon Musk First Principles Thinking

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Leadership models II: Growth Mindset, Eisenhower Matrix, Tuckman Model, Cynefin Framework, SCARF Model

Marton Trencseni - Sun 14 May 2023 • Tagged with leadership, mental, models, growth-mindset, eisenhower-matrix, tuckman, cynefin, scarf

I describe the following mental models useful in leadership and self-management: the Growth Mindset, Eisenhower Matrix, Tuckman Model, Cynefin Framework, SCARF Model.

Trust equation

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Leadership models I: Iceberg Model, Six Thinking Hats, Trust Equation, Circle of influence, OODA Loop

Marton Trencseni - Fri 12 May 2023 • Tagged with leadership, mental, models, iceberg, thinking-hats, trust-euqation, ooda

I describe the following mental models useful in leadership and self-management: Iceberg Model, Six Thinking Hats, Trust Equation, Circle of Influence and OODA Loop.

Trust equation

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