Billions of dollars have been made and lost in recent months based on screenshots of Roaring Kitty’s account balances1. These screenshots were widely circulated and discussed, yet they could have easily been doctored. Some examples can be found here, here,... [Read More]

Many factors affect a vehicle’s market value but two of the most important factors are vehicle age and mileage. The average American vehicle travels about 14,000 miles per year, per the 2019 FHA data. Most publicly available depreciation estimates are... [Read More]

We recently moved into a rural home running on well water. The well pumps groundwater into a storage tank, which holds about 5,000 gallons of water. However, due in large part to the historic drought in California our well runs... [Read More]

My wife and I got three backyard chickens a few months ago. There was a lot of setup work initially, but we eventually settled into a routine that didn’t require much daily work. One pain point was waking up early... [Read More]

Millions of people use the Python library Pandas to wrangle and analyze data. I, being one of those users, noticed a few months ago something peculiar: accessing rows by an index reference through .loc can be significantly slower when using... [Read More]