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Notes on machine learning, quantitative research, and the mathematics underneath.
When Does a False-Belief Representation Become Causal?
Layerwise geometry of factual resistance in Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct: a shared false-belief representation emerges before becoming causally aligned with factual resistance.
mech-interptransformersgeometrysycophancyThe Geometry of Position in a Transformer
Tracking RoPE's implicit positional manifold through the residual stream of Qwen2.5-3B: it stays Fourier/RoPE-like along displacement, and is approximately linearly transported (rotated, stretched, occasionally reorganized) along depth.
mech-interptransformersgeometryPartition Geometry: Profile Complexity and the Axis-Alignment Tax
Comparing how different models carve up space on shared labeled grids: scan-line profiles, an exact axis-alignment tax, and a general run-based lower bound on tree complexity.
geometrytheorymachine-learningNeural Manifolds & Learning
Motor cortex population activity from a macaque maze-reaching task: PCA latent trajectories, early vs. late session geometry via participation ratio, Procrustes distance, and RSA.
neurosciencegeometrySpectra
A command-line tool that profiles tensor artifacts (.npy, .npz) for sparsity, entropy, and spectral structure, then routes each to the best compression strategy: quantization, sparse COO storage, or truncated SVD.
toolscompressionmlTick Size and Discrete Control in Prediction Markets
How discrete tick size and integer inventory reshape a continuous market-making model on prediction markets like Kalshi, and the dimensionless ratio that decides when the exchange grid actually matters.
quantmarket-makingmathJane Street April 2025 Puzzle
A recursive, self-similar approach to the infinite binary tree puzzle, reduced to a pair of fixed-point equations and solved by binary search.
puzzleprobabilityIMC Prosperity 3
Our first time taking a swing away from the books: a round-by-round write-up of Pandera's run to 23rd worldwide.
quantmarket-makingJane Street March 2025 Puzzle
The March 2025 puzzle.
puzzleJane Street February 2025 Puzzle
The February 2025 puzzle.
puzzleJane Street December 2024 Puzzle
A games-night wordplay that decodes to a familiar phrase.
puzzleC++ Basics to GPU: From Hello World to CUDA
A single reference built from my notes learning C++ and CUDA, from language basics and OOP through kernels, unified memory, streams, and an n-body simulator.
cppcudagpunotesGenerative Structuralism: The Science of Exploration
A Philosophy of Study. Mathematics as the language of generative structure, and why emergence itself is worth studying.
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