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Thinking out loud.

A place for notes, essays, and half-formed views — on machine learning, markets, research, and whatever else I'm turning over. Some are conclusions; most are me thinking through a problem in public.

MAY 2026

When a nudge backfires

A thousand rounds of human decisions, and the incentive that made people choose worse.

research · reinforcement-learning · behavioral

MAR 2026

The alpha that wasn't

How a clean +8%/yr signal fell apart the moment I stopped letting it peek at the future.

quant · research · backtesting