Technical Blog

Mechanism Design in Ad Tech

17 July, 2026.

Insider trading but Ads?

Are Graph Foundation Models Actually Foundation Models?

13 July, 2026.

Graphs, transfer, and what foundation should mean.

Programmatic Ad Tech: The Whole Machine

25 May, 2026.

Ads, but algorithmic.

Graph Mamba: The Post-Thesis Idea I Wish I Had Earlier

01 May, 2026.

Graphs, Mamba, and next-event prediction in soccer.

Martingales in Optimization: Why SGD Doesn’t Drift Randomly

21 March, 2026.

WikipediaMaxxing.

One Matrix or Two

20 March, 2026.

Obsessed with it at this point.

The Sigmoid Mistake

19 March, 2026.

The Midsem Blunder.

Rotation Forest with a twist.

13 March, 2026 | code

Making random rotations.

The Geometric Trace

12 February, 2026.

Cool Integrals.

The Topology of Football

11 November, 2025.

I love football and graphs.

KL in VAE's

11 November, 2025.

Midnight twitter.

The Beautiful Game

04 November, 2025.

I love football and deep learning.

Matchday Math

15 July, 2025.

I love football and statistics.

Shannon's Kids

15 July, 2025.

Standup academic.

BLIP

5 July, 2025.

One of the best models I've used.

Bullwhip Effect

9 June, 2025.

Seven hour midsems aren't that bad after all?

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