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I Built an AI System That Makes Timestamped Market Predictions

I Built an AI System That Makes Timestamped Market Predictions

Every analyst has an opinion on the market. Almost none of them timestamp it, track it, and publish whether they were right.

Mar 2026
Building a Model Serving API From Scratch

Building a Model Serving API From Scratch

I built a model serving API from scratch. Not because the world needs another inference server, but because I wanted to understand what happens between...

Feb 2026
aide

aide

The METR study found developers believe AI makes them 20% faster. Measured: 19% slower. I wanted data on my own usage, so I built a...

Feb 2026
Solving Gobblet Gobblers: Building a 20-Million Position Tablebase

Solving Gobblet Gobblers: Building a 20-Million Position Tablebase

Gobblet Gobblers is a tic-tac-toe variant with a stacking mechanic, marketed as a children’s game (ages 5+). I solved the game, built a 20-million position...

Dec 2025
Building ML Serving Infrastructure

Building ML Serving Infrastructure

Serving ML models in production is 90% backend engineering, 10% ML. The hard part isn’t loading a model from HuggingFace. It’s designing cache keys for...

Oct 2025
Hanzi Flow 1.0

Hanzi Flow 1.0

I learned 3,000 Chinese characters in two weeks thanks to this app. I can read anything now.

Oct 2025