Insights from the front line.
Money laundering, buying elections and housing affordability
With the Australian federal election coming, both the Labor and the Liberal/National Coalition parties have announced policies to buy votes. ...
The Mars Rover Tech Challenge (in Lisp!) Part 2
Command line - Mars Rover Tech Challenge in common lisp ...
The Mars Rover Tech Challenge (in Lisp!) Part 1
Doing the Mars Rover Tech Challenge in common lisp! ...
Real Estate price forecasts in the media
It’s good that finally the media is including forecasts when discussing the future of Australian’s real estate prices. However we can improve on the forecasts being used. The CoreLogic Moody’s forecasts that are quoted are regularly highly inaccurate; Vifortech Solutions has proved it can do better. Comparing the percentage error of annual forecasts in the discussion below, we see: In only one case is the Vifortech Solutions forecast wrong by more than 25%; and In four out of five cases the CoreLogic Moody’s forecast is wrong by more than 30%....
Fixing Emacs' unknown and untrusted authority TLS error
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