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Notes on distributed systems, machine learning, and quantitative finance.

Black-Scholes: The Intuition Behind the Formula

Rather than deriving Black-Scholes from scratch, let's build intuition for what it's actually computing and where its assumptions break down.

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Understanding the Raft Consensus Algorithm

A walkthrough of how Raft achieves fault-tolerant consensus in distributed systems, with diagrams and intuition behind each phase.

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