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Ryan Gibson

Ryan Gibson

Quantitative Analyst | Computer Scientist

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Leaderboard of Open LLMs Ranked by LLM Judges
Machine-Learning Large-Language-Models Leaderboard Evaluation
An evaluation of recent consumer-grade open LLMs based on ratings generated through an LLM-as-a-judge framework.
How to Run LLMs Larger than RAM
Machine-Learning Large-Language-Models Linux
A short experiment on running larger LLMs on low-end consumer hardware, with comments on performance trade-offs and practicality.
How Risky is a Correlated Hedge?
Investing Hedging Correlation Risk-Management
A brief analysis of how much risk you can reduce by hedging with correlated assets. Even in a perfect world, a 90% correlation limits risk reduction to about 50%.
A Tale of T-Mobile Prepaid Billing Errors
T-Mobile Prepaid-Plans FCC-Complaint Consumer-Protection
A discussion of an odd bug in T-Mobile’s systems, resolved only after filing an FCC complaint. This post details my experience, the support timeline, and some theories on the mysterious charges.
Why the Hell Is This Git Repo So Large? And How to Trim It Down
Programming Git Version-Control Repository-Management
A guide on reducing the size of an oversized Git repository, using the Blowfish Hugo theme as a case study. Learn best practices for maintaining a lean repo and its history.
Analyzing Political Party Strength vs. Quality of Life in U.S. States
Data-Analysis Data-Exploration Politics Quality-of-Life Interactive
A data-driven exploration of how political lean correlates with quality of life metrics across the United States.