06-10-2026·8 min readHumanities
Topics:ChristianityExistentialismDostoevskyKierkegaard
The Grand Inquisitor is one of the most unsettling figures in all of literature, not because he is evil, but because he is sincere. In Dostoevsky's work, The Brothers Karamazov, a cardinal of the Spanish Inquisition arrests the returned Christ and delivers a monologue so airtight in its logic that generations of theologians have struggled to answer it. Most attempts to refute him engage his argument on its own terms, but what if the answer lies in addressing the Inquisitor's internal sickness instead of his argument?
06-06-2026·11 min readHumanities
Topics:AbsurdismStruggleMarxism
What happens when humanity runs out of problems to solve? As an AI-driven utopia automates away the struggle for economic survival, it forces us to confront the raw void of existence. Filtering this frictionless future through the conflicting lenses of Marx, Nietzsche, and Camus, this piece explores the razor-thin margin between total liberation and existential rot. When the scaffolding of forced labor collapses, what do we do with the remains?
11-20-2025·13 min readTechnical
Topics:CUDAMachine LearningHigh-performance Computing
GPU programming is a completely different computational paradigm compared to developing on a CPU. Threads execute in lockstep. Memory hierarchies are explicit. Serialization is everywhere. Here's your gateway into the architecture and optimization patterns that power video games and modern AI.
11-09-2025·6 min readPersonal
Topics:DiscoveryReasoning
How do pioneers create something from nothing? The answer isn't genius or luck. It's mastery of first principles. An exploration of how Einstein, Descartes, and Newton built revolutionary ideas from foundational truths.
10-19-2025·13 min readHumanities
Topics:LogicEpistemology
Exploring how Kurt Gödel shattered David Hilbert's dream of perfect mathematics by proving that any consistent formal system contains unprovable truths. Applying the profound implications for human knowledge, the limits of self-understanding through strange loops and consciousness, the incompleteness of moral systems, and why this isn't pessimistic.
09-22-2025·8 min readTechnical
Topics:Operating SystemsSystems
Unwinding the esoteric architecture of modern filesystems, from the fundamental question of what a 'file' even is to your operating system. Exploring how inodes, superblocks, and bitmaps organize raw bytes into the familiar hierarchy we navigate daily, and examining performance optimizations like indirect pointers, extents, journaling, and block groups that make modern storage reliable and fast.
09-13-2025·4 min readArts
Topics:ChessStrategyGame Theory
Exploring the King's Gambit, one of chess's most aggressive openings that sacrifices a pawn for rapid piece development. Examining why this high-risk strategy embodies the razor-thin margin between domination and disaster, and how imperfect openings like this force players away from memorization and into genuine critical thinking as early as move 5.
09-12-2025·8 min readTechnical
Topics:AI/MLResearch
A deep dive into recent OpenAI research exploring the mathematical foundations behind why large language models hallucinate. Examining how pre and post-training limitations create unavoidable and magnified errors, and how binary evaluation methods inadvertently encourage overconfidence in models.
08-29-2025·8 min readTechnical
Topics:C++Finance
A detailed worklog of building an ultra-low latency orderbook in C++ from scratch, exploring the journey from a naive 635K orders/sec implementation to nearly 2M orders/sec. Diving into memory pooling to avoid syscalls, cache-friendly data structures, struct alignment, branch prediction hints, and strategic inlining to squeeze out every microsecond of performance.
08-21-2025·8 min readHumanities
Topics:EthicsVirtue
Unpacking Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and its exploration of happiness, morality, and virtue. Examining how Aristotle argues that happiness comes from virtuous activity, how moral virtues are cultivated through practice and finding the mean between extremes, and why friendships based on goodness represent the highest form of human connection.
08-19-2025·7 min readTechnical
Topics:AlgorithmsGraph Theory
A deep dive into groundbreaking research that breaks the time complexity lower bound for single-source shortest path algorithms. Fleshing out how researchers combined Dijkstra's algorithm with Bellman-Ford through an innovative frontier-reduction technique to achieve faster runtimes using divide-and-conquer and bounded multi-source shortest path strategies.
07-13-2025·7 min readTechnical
Topics:MathematicsFinance
Analyzing how Benoit Mandelbrot's revolutionary application of fractal mathematics and power laws to financial markets challenged traditional models. Examining how self-similar patterns and scale-invariant behavior can predict market crashes that normal distributions deem impossible, and how firms leverage these insights for risk management and profit.
06-28-2025·6 min readHumanities
Topics:StoicismEthics
Exploring Epictetus's stoic philosophy on living a meaningful life, from his teachings as a former slave in ancient Rome. Examining core principles like finding happiness internally rather than through external validation, embodying virtue through action rather than just understanding it intellectually, and how discipline leads to true freedom.
01-19-2024·1 min readPersonal
Topics:Introduction
A personal introduction and what to expect.