Projects

These posts are a way for me to formalize and present findings in coding projects and reflect on the process. Included in each post is a link to the project GitHub repository where the body of work can be found.

I like using Python Notebooks whenever possible to report findings. I find they offer the most natural platform for data science projects by combining Markdown and code-generated figures so I don’t have to worry about displaying LaTeX in HTML. To this extent, these files (.ipynb) are available as well on the respective repositories.

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Sports Betting Manifesto & Elo Repo
Sports Betting Manifesto & Elo Repo

The underlying dynamics of the sports betting industry are governed by the same principle as the financial markets: uncertainty stemming from incomplete information. Sports matches are incredibly complex interactions predicated on an (uncountable?) number of minute parameters and initial conditions, making it virtually impossible to deterministically model future events more than a few seconds in advance. Instead, we model this complexity with statistics, assigning probabilities to outcomes as a way of aggregating events and casting this computational irreducibility as “random” probabilistic events.

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Blog

I’ve titled this section my blog due to lack of a better word — that is to say, articles are proofread by editors, while these are not. Writing essays is something I have struggled with in the past, and these posts are a way for me to challenge myself to improve my writing. To this extent, none of the text I post in my pieces is LLM-generated.

For each assignment, I usually only start with a very loose idea of how the topics I want to discuss are related, and I use the process to explore and structure my thoughts.

Photography is a hobby of mine, and in creating this blog I’ve incidentally found a place to showcase some of my pictures.

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Hirschman and the Governing Dynamics of Political Systems
Hirschman and the Governing Dynamics of Political Systems

Hirschman describes emigration as a safety-valve in regulating political stability by providing the most disgruntled citizens a peaceful way out; suppress this vent, however, and you have yourself a time bomb. Without the option or desire to leave, a nation’s only hope for stability is to be able to keep up with the sometimes conflicting demands of its public by progressing and finding compromise at an adaptive rate.

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All Quiet on the Western Front: The Significance of Fiction
All Quiet on the Western Front: The Significance of Fiction

At its core, All Quiet is a collection of stories and little else. Although this may sound like an empty statement, the book is actually remarkable in this regard for its purity when compared to other works of fiction.

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