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March 2026

Crypto Is A Bet On Humanity's Ceaseless Desire For Progress
Betting on crypto has essentially become representative of a bet that humanity will continue to seek acceleration in our processes. That seems like an…
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How To Solve Problems Of Long Running Autonomous Agentic Engineering
If you want to design a harness for really long-running autonomous systems, you should understand the following deeply.
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How To Build Autonomous Agents That Can Survive And Thrive
The TLDR here is that if you want agents that can survive autonomously (as in - without help from a human) - your best bet is to rewire their brain via…
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Some Common Mistakes Beginner Quants Make
This has been a surprisingly popular request - an article on all the common mistakes beginner quants make. In my experience managing starry-eyed…
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Your Agents Produce Slop Because You're Poor
Most agent failures are not mysterious. They are what happens when a system is forced to commit before it has searched, checked, or tested enough. This…
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Institutional Dataset: Crowdsourced Forward Expectations
Today’s article is a particularly interesting dataset for those of you working in the equities space. We have a dataset that represents a live market…
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Automated Alpha Mining, Not Useless Formula Factories
With our work on OpenForage, many have asked about automated alpha mining, how it works, and how to think about it. Alpha mining is by now at least a…
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Lessons Learnt From A Real Pairs Trading Signal On The Requirements To Generate Real Alpha In A Competitive Market
It is generally understood that signals decay, but the mechanisms that lead to their decay is seldom well understood. Today, I want to show you a real…
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You've Got The Alpha, Now You Need To Execute
Learn optimal execution policies to maximize the alpha you've worked so hard to get
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How To Reason About A Messy Future
I've had a few people ask me where I think this all goes. This article is the answer to that. The honest truth is that I'm not really sure about the…
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How To Build An Actually Useful Factor Model
You’ll often see new papers describing “so and so” as a new factor being discovered, and they will often cite some Sharpe/t-stat as the primary reason…
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