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2025

Print() and std::cout are extremely expensive
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
·· 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?
· 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
·· 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
· 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.