This post outlines a Cosmos interchain security proposal that involves a CLI tool and a novel fee market, streamlining the process to launch an app chain.
July 5, 2022 - app chains, interchain security, atom, cosmos
Terra is a rapidly growing blockchain offering UST, the largest uncollateralized stablecoin ever. In this post, I give recommendations to the Terra ecosystem and propose Terranova: an EVM on Terra.
April 5, 2022 - terra, luna, terranova, evm, defi, crypto
In this post, I develop a variant of the Elo rating system to ignore the order that games are played in. I demonstrate that this algorithm has similar performance to Glicko.
February 2, 2022 - elo, rating, glicko, linear algebra, algorithms
My parents don't understand what I do as a quant, so I wrote this to help explain to them. This post goes into the basics of power pricing and the electricity market.
January 8, 2022 - quant, research, economics, math, optimization, power
In this article, I use a modified version of Q-learning to train a bot to play the card game Literature. Specifically, I use a neural net to approximate rewards with some shortcuts to speed up training.
In the MTV show "Are You the One?", contestants are secretly assigned to pairs and attempt to find their mate. In this post, I'll explore some of the probability behind the show.
August 11, 2019 - probability, combinatorics, game theory, statistics
There are some major differences that separate production-quality Python code from what you write in school. In this article, I discuss code style, type checking, testing, and more.
June 29, 2019 - production, python, style, tips, conventions
If you're running a web server in a Docker container on a remote server, you might want to map a port on your computer to the web server within the Docker container. This tutorial breaks down the process into two steps.
May 4, 2017 - docker, ssh tunnel, port forward, forwarding, container
Sometimes you need to access GitHub directly from its IP address. For example, on Oct. 21, the Dyn DNS service went out, and GitHub's domain no longer resolved to the IP. This tutorial walks you through editing your hosts file.
October 21, 2016 - hosts, dns, github, dyn, outage
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