tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post8522686304829555854..comments2024-02-09T18:16:45.614+00:00Comments on The Psy-Fi Blog: Cardano’s Gambittimarrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06254802085744425067noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-65302517909450534672010-10-28T23:16:49.172+01:002010-10-28T23:16:49.172+01:00Great post Psy-Fi,
Since I embarked on the journey...Great post Psy-Fi,<br />Since I embarked on the journey of developing the Texas Holdem Investing theory I'm a big proponent of the similarities between investing and gambling (specifically poker in my case).<br />Great so see a luminary like yourself thinking along the same lines.<br />The Masked FinancierMasked Financierhttp://texasholdeminvesting.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-32914957208841732962010-10-28T09:10:40.368+01:002010-10-28T09:10:40.368+01:00According to wiki he secured lifetime annuity from...<i>According to wiki he secured lifetime annuity from Pope Gregory XIII. I don't think annuity form Pope count as poverty.</i><br /><br />Good place to start research but rarely an end point. The UK government provides an annuity to its pensioners but that doesn't mean they're not poor ...<br /><br />Cardano was tortured by the Inquisition in 1570, moved to Rome in 1572 and died in 1576. Gregory XIII received the pontificate in 1573 so the annuity was awarded in that period somewhere. That Cardano needed this at all given his former wealth and status is significant in itself.<br /><br />Remarkably Cardano's autobiography is still in print, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Book-Life-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590170164/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1288252903&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">The Book of My Life</a>. Extraordinary man, but I'm not sure he'd be someone you'd want to have as a friend.timarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06254802085744425067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-31591239388508553452010-10-28T08:02:45.383+01:002010-10-28T08:02:45.383+01:00>He ended his days back in poverty
According t...>He ended his days back in poverty<br /><br />According to wiki he secured lifetime annuity from Pope Gregory XIII. I don't think annuity form Pope count as poverty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-46696910674949112102010-10-28T03:08:31.733+01:002010-10-28T03:08:31.733+01:00A more nuanced view of share-price behavior, and o...A more nuanced view of share-price behavior, and of the matter of underlying order and surface randomness, comes from Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett's mentor: "In the short term, the market is a voting machine. In the long term, it is a weighing machine."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-32196154941327041212010-10-27T09:52:49.774+01:002010-10-27T09:52:49.774+01:00Hi No'am
It's not the stats that are the ...Hi No'am<br /><br />It's not the stats that are the trouble, it's the proofreading ... Broken link to the reference paper also fixed.<br /><br />Thanks.timarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06254802085744425067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366878066073177705.post-33060249172613419862010-10-27T08:55:02.384+01:002010-10-27T08:55:02.384+01:00You wrote: 10 out of 100 women at age forty who pa...You wrote: <i>10 out of 100 women at age forty who participate in routine screening have breast cancer.</i><br />Surely that should be 10 out of 1000? Otherwise, there is a 10% probability that a woman of 40 has breast cancer, not 1%.<br /><br />Tricky probabilities.....No'am Newmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11096178030233335887noreply@blogger.com