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- profiting from randomness is a personal blog at breakingthemarket.com about economics and business. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Most Misunderstood Force in the Universe”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for investing and position-sizing writing, including the Kelly Criterion and extending it to correlated bets. One commenter says they follow it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
profiting from randomness
Most-linked posts?
- The Most Misunderstood Force in the Universe2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-08
What Hacker News says?
A great investing blog I follow is https://breakingthemarket.com/ . He talks about the Kelly Criterion and extending it to making correlated bets (investments).
Comment linking /
on “Kelly Criterion – how to calculate optimal bet sizes”Submitted The Most Misunderstood Force in the Universe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Arithmetic Return Doesn't Exist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Most Misunderstood Force in the Universe as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Repetition Economics – The Story of Hunter, Mammoth and Wolves as a story · 1 points
HN discussion