Blog Posts

A Year Around The Sun With Eclipse

I reflect on the Eclipse team's journey in building the Eclipse Mainnet, Ethereum's fastest L2. A reflection on rollups and challenges for the app-specific rollup thesis.

October 2, 2023 - eclipse, l2, svm, rollup

Rollups-as-a-Service Are Going To Zero

The app-specific rollup space is poorly defined, so I have taken it upon myself to define the market landscape and explain the economics for the uninitiated.

August 8, 2023 - rollups, rollups-as-a-service, OP Stack, RaaS, L2aaS, app rollups

Introduction to Eclipse: Customizable, Modular Rollups

The fastest chains today can’t accommodate the throughput requirements of web2 applications. Eclipse scales blockchains horizontally with customizable, modular rollups using your VM of choice on any chain.

September 27, 2022 - solana, cosmos, ibc, rollups, modular

An Alternate Interchain Security Proposal

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

The Future of Terra DeFi

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

Explaining to my parents what I do

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

How To Derive Useful Financial Approximations

Many useful financial rules of thumb can be derived using Taylor approximations. In this blog post, I solve for common approximation formulas.

October 15, 2020 - finance, approximation, taylor, bond yield, derive, rule of four, rule of 72

Three Controversial Beliefs About Living Things

I describe a few of my more unusual beliefs about evolution and the nature of living things. I think that evolution is frequently misunderstood.

October 23, 2019 - philosophy, philosophy of science, evolution, biology

How to train a neural net to play cards

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.

September 1, 2019 - machine learning, cards, neural net, artificial intelligence, q-learning

Analyzing "Are You the One?"

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

How to SSH tunnel to a Docker container on a remote server

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