Entries by Matt

The Four Sons

This is Hillel Fuld’s  #Snapchatorah for Passover Add Hillel on Snapchat Snapchat.com/add/hilzfuld  The Four Sons The book we read on Passover the Haggadah, talks about four sons; the intellectual, the evil, the simple minded and the one that doesn’t know how to ask questions. Notice how they are defined. They are defined by their questions. The intellectual one […]

Curry in a Hurry

After seeing this post on Reddit Steph curry is making threepointers at an unprecedented rate, I thought this would be a good time to do an One-Way ANOVA test. The charts show Curry is great but is he significantly great statistically speaking? A One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is a way to test the equality of three or […]

“A” for Awful?

Introduction Walking around NYC looking at restaurants I notice many more”A” grade inspection than B’s or C’s. I was curious to see what the distribution was, and what correlation, if any, occurred when comparing to Yelp Reviews. Data Sets The New York City Restaurant Inspection Results data set was exported from Engima.io This data is provided by […]

Parashat Metzora

Metzora (מְּצֹרָע — Hebrew for “One being diseased”) This is Hillel Fuld’s  #Snapchatorah for Parashat Metzora. Add Hillel on Snapchat Snapchat.com/add/hilzfuld  Purity and impurity aka making mistakes and rectifying them The lesson in this portion are quite simple. The whole portion talks about purity and impurity. So what can we learn as entrepreneurs, listen up. So the Torah […]

Inbox Analysis

Just another day staring at my inbox, attempting to get to inbox zero. I noticed that Tim Ferriss and Ramit Sethi sent out an email blast within minutes of each other, this got me thinking  “When do I get the most emails?” Those two are pretty big on A/B testing and being quantitative marketers so I […]

Parashat Tazria

Tazria (תַזְרִיעַ — Hebrew for “She Conceives”) This is Hillel Fuld’s  #Snapchatorah for Parashat Tazria. Add Hillel on Snapchat Snapchat.com/add/hilzfuld  The Dangers of gossip This weeks snapchat Torah is super important for entrepreneurs. The Torah portion talks about gossip and leprosy i.e. good and bad communication. When building a startup, communication isn’t 95% it’s literally 100%. Everything you […]

Parashat Shemini

Shemini (שְּׁמִינִי — Hebrew for “eighth”) This is Hillel Fuld’s  #Snapchatorah for Parashat Shemini. Add Hillel on Snapchat Snapchat.com/add/hilzfuld  A lesson in tragedy and difficulty Aaron the high priest had a family tragedy; his two kids were killed. The bible describes his reaction He was Silent! His two children were killed and he was silent! Why is he […]

2016Q1 Book Review

2016Q1 Book Review My reading list for 2016 Quarter one. Every quarter I like to read a mix of genres skipping around fantasy, business, and self development Doing Good Better How effective Altruism can help you make a difference. This book had a great content and has changed the way I think about charity and […]

Online Learning

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”-Mark Twain Online Learning      I believe most learning happens outside the classroom, and have learned more of my day to day skills for work online than at college. I started with Prof. Gilbert Strang’s classes on Calculus reviewing for AP calculus BC. I had a great […]