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These are my blog articles on books that I have found very interesting, where I have had the time to write about, and thought it would be good to share a brief summary to spread the word.
My notes are organized into two parts:
5-things-I-learnt-from-this-book – which is a quick one or two minute read.
Summary-of-this-book – a more detailed review which may take a few more minutes to read.

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Getting into the Olympics Big League — a Machine Learning perspective using KMeans Clustering
The Paris Olympics of July-August 2024 is still fresh in everyone’s memory, and it is a good time for introspection. In this article, leveraging Machine Learning (ML) tools, let us try to answer the question of what it will take for an aspiring nation to get into the Olympics Big League. Note: This is a…
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The Psychology of Money
The Psychology of Money, Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness, by Morgan Housel, uses a simple, but powerful, story-based approach to illustrate key concepts about managing money. This book is more about the behavioral aspects and biases around money – do not expect deep dives into valuation, equations, or stock analysis. My notes are…
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Macro-economic indicators and Olympic medals – a point-of-view using ML libraries in Python
Introduction The Paris Olympic Games were held between July and August 2024. It is a good time now in October 2024 to reflect on the performance of various countries. The question that keeps coming to the mind, keeping aside individual athlete brilliance, is – ‘What macro-economic factors can be attributed to the medal tally?’ When…

