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A collection of blog posts covering research and development across all mediums.

Co-Brain: l’approche de la mer, and why AI cannot emerge from LLMs

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Jun 19, 2026

Deep persuasion: grokking, storehouse, and weights

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Jun 5, 2026

Hiring against the room

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May 25, 2026

Bend the chimney; move the firewood

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May 23, 2026

Worse is better and the right thing

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May 16, 2026

Good companies and good-looking companies: lost dimensions of work

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May 9, 2026

Cognitive resignation: LLM and the hollowing of expertise

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May 2, 2026

How much customization should a financial platform offer?

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Apr 10, 2026

Markov processes and Kolmogorov equations

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Jan 1, 2026

Reflections on financial advisory and portfolio management

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Dec 21, 2025

Understanding long and short margin mechanics

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Dec 7, 2025

Deep learning at scale: lesson from experiments from Perlmutter

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Nov 17, 2025

Scalable GPU programming for exascale: multi-node and multi-GPU strategies

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Nov 16, 2025

From bricolage to engineering: regularizing complexity

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Nov 7, 2025

Bayesian deep learning: uncertainty, inductive bias, and modern theory

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Oct 10, 2025

Selling modern financial products: comparing SMAs, SaaS, and asset management

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Jun 7, 2025

From physical toil to cognitive burnout: modern labor and the ethics of software design

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May 30, 2025

Internal states, external worlds: concurrency, consensus, and sociotechnical challenges in computing

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May 24, 2025

Engineering speak: prolegomena to ideal technical discourses

musings language engineering management
May 17, 2025

Self-healing computation: building resilient financial computational services

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May 10, 2025

Cognitive mirror: how LLMs compress language and challenge our sense of self

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May 2, 2025

Basis trade and treasury deleveraging

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Apr 12, 2025

The Triffin dilemma and the exorbitant privilege

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Apr 1, 2025

Client-side connection pool management

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Mar 1, 2025

Zoo keeping: dynamic assembling based on subclass attributes

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Apr 14, 2024

Go getters: a monadic way

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Apr 9, 2024

Take a walk on the functional side: yes, we need monads

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Apr 6, 2024

Working with distributed workers

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Apr 1, 2024

Cooperative concurrency with FastAPI: it's the generators, stupid

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Mar 27, 2024

Wrapping around wrappers: a primer on Python decorators

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Mar 19, 2024

Simple SSL-based encryption

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Oct 21, 2021