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  1. Non-fiction reading list

    I love to read. In fact, its not really the habit of reading that I find enjoyable but more the act of learning that keeps me going. Thats mainly why the majority of books I read are non-fiction books. Recently, I have taken a more structured approach to choosing my…
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  2. Transfrom your Inbox into a Kanban Board

    A Kanban Board is a technique of visualizing your work items and their progression through the different stages of completion over time. A task will typically start within your 'To Do' section, move then to the 'In progress' section when you start working on it and finally, when completed, end…
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  3. Getting started with stock market investing - Diversification

    This is the next post in the 'Getting started with stock market investing' series. If you haven't read the first post about Risk vs. Return, I recommend you read it first. But divide your investments among many places, for you do not know what risks might lie ahead. - Ecclesiastes…
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  4. Getting started with stock market investing - Risk vs. Return

    Stock market investing has a severe image problem in Belgium. People tend to equate the stock market more and more with a casino. Maybe if you are a big shot trader or investment banker in London, you can succeed by "playing" the stock market. After all, they make it their…
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  5. Understanding the internet - HTTP

    Lately, I have become more and more interested in the exact underpinnings of a particular 'magical' element in our lives: the Internet. I have gradually learned more and more and feel finally confident to start a blog series about it. The goal of this blog series is not only to…
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  6. Efficiency, an economist's wet dream

    Economics is more or less a special sub-field of the human sciences in the sense that it has a specific, well-defined objective. This overarching objective of the economics' profession is called (economic or Pareto-) efficiency. While this sounds as a widely understood concept, the economists' definition of it is quite…
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  7. Demand and Supply

    In this post, I would like to go a bit deeper into the concept of demand and supply curves. Almost everybody, economists and non-economists, have heard of these concepts and most have realized that they lie at the basis of a whole bunch of economic theory. Today, we will construct…
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  8. The Economics of the Ivory Trade

    I recently watched the excellent Netflix documentary The Ivory Game. The film directs the public attention towards the daily struggle between elephant conservationists and poachers. While the conservationists are often from developed countries and backed by western governments, the poachers are in the majority of cases local, encouraged by the…
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  9. How to become a Google Ninja

    The ability to find relevant results on Google has long been regarded as part science, part art. While choosing the correct search terms is undoubtedly an important success factor, there is so much more to master before you become... ...a true Google Ninja. Boolean Search A simple, but necessary step…
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  10. The basics of Data computing

    The term ‘Big Data’ was first used in a late 90s paper to describe the complexities involved in performing computer graphics calculations. The authors, NASA scientists, remarked upon it in the following fashion: "data sets are generally quite large, taxing the capacities of main memory, local disk, and even remote…
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