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2024

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.
Modeling Optimal PC Building Decisions
Modeling Pc-Building Historical-Data Data-Analysis Data-Exploration
What is the optimal amount to spend on a computer? How often should its components be upgraded? We review historical data and build a plausible model of computer performance over time.
On the Time Burden of Office Work
Time-Management Remote-Work Return-to-Office
How much of a pay cut is in-office work compared to remote? All else being equal, maybe a bit more than you’d expect.
Deriving Analytic Retirement Estimates: A DIY Approach
Investing Retirement Derivation
Take a DIY approach to calculating rough retirement timelines. No need for fancy services – roll your own, either for a secondary sanity check or out of curiosity!

2023

Analytic Early Retirement Calculator
Investing Retirement Early-Retirement Interactive
A retirement calculator that estimates your retirement timeline, required annual savings, and assesses your progress toward retirement goals.
Animated Cellular Automaton QR Codes
Qr-Codes Cellular-Automata Video
An experiment in using randomized cellular automata to generate QR codes that remain valid on every frame.