Notes on thinking, ideas, and the things I can't stop reading about.
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What happened after Part 2 published: the maintainer read it, opened an issue, shipped two fixes in 48 hours, then released v1.10.0 with every workaround from this series built in natively. The complete, current pipeline setup — and what a first open source contribution arc actually looks like.
A first-principles look at Weber's Law — the discovery that what counts as a noticeable change depends on where you start, and how that one ratio quietly shapes pricing, prison sentences, and the feeling that time speeds up with age.
How quantitative funds try to tell a real, repeatable pattern from a correlation that's just noise, what actually makes one quant fund better than another, and whether high-frequency trading is, on balance, good or bad for markets.
A first-principles look at what hedge funds and quant funds actually are, where the idea of algorithmic trading came from, how high-frequency trading works mechanically, and how 'skill' gets measured once most decisions are made by machines.
A first-principles look at the cell: what it is, whether it counts as a living thing in its own right, how a single genome builds roughly two hundred different kinds of cells, and what happens when that system breaks down.