Blog Posts
TIL: What Happens When a Country’s Currency Strengthens Against the USD? Taiwan Offers a Trillion-Dollar Example
In recent months, the New Taiwan Dollar (TWD) has surged to its highest level in over three years against the U.S. Dollar (USD). While a stronger currency sounds like a vote of confidence, Taiwan’s case highlights how this can create serious economic side effects — especially when the country holds nearly $1 trillion in USD-denominated assets.
Read More →TIL: Robinhood Now Lets You Choose Tax Lots When Selling Stocks
If you’re investing through Robinhood, here’s a useful new feature you may not have noticed — the ability to choose specific tax lots when selling stocks.
Read More →The Life of a Token: From Text to Prediction in GPT
The GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) model has revolutionized natural language processing (NLP) with its ability to generate human-like text. But how does it actually work? In this blog, we’ll take you through the journey of a token — from raw text to meaningful predictions.
Read More →From Self-Attention to Mixture of Experts: A First-Principles Exploration
This blog captures my journey as I tried to understand how a Transformer block works — from the self-attention mechanism to the feed-forward network (FNN), and eventually into the world of Mixture of Experts (MoE). Rather than jumping into equations or research jargon, I started with simple questions that naturally arose as I tried to break things down from first principles.
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