Posts
2025
Print() and std::cout are extremely expensive
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3 mins
Programming
Performance
Advice
A short discussion of the performance cost of printing to a terminal. They are far more expensive than most junior developers realize.
A Simple Derivation of the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formula
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8 mins
Black-Scholes
Option-Pricing
Derivation
Statistics
A straightforward derivation of the famous option pricing formula using only basic probability and statistics. No stochastic calculus required!
Converting Between Fat-Tailed Distributions
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5 mins
Statistics
Fat-Tailed
Modeling
Distribution-Fitting
A set of rules of thumb that I’ve fit to convert between the most popular fat-tailed distributions.
2024
Injected Approval: A Low Effort Local LLM Jailbreak
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4 mins
Large-Language-Models
Jailbreaking
Cybersecurity
A quick look into into one of the simplest attacks on LLM safety mitigations, revealing large gaps in current approaches from major tech companies.
Modeling Stock Market Corrections Over 150 Years
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9 mins
Data-Analysis
Data-Exploration
Fat-Tailed
Stochastic-Modeling
Modeling
Investing
How fast does the stock market correct back to long-term trends? Let’s fit a fat-tailed, skewed stochastic model to find out.
Leaderboard of Open LLMs Ranked by LLM Judges
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5 mins
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
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4 mins
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?
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4 mins
Investing
Hedging
Correlation
Risk-Management
Statistics
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
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7 mins
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 the root cause of the mysterious charges.
Why the Hell Is This Git Repo So Large? And How to Trim It Down
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6 mins
Programming
Git
Version-Control
Repository-Management
Advice
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.