Research & Analysis
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Research
Research-driven deep dives into complex topics across computer science, economics, neuroscience, and more.
The Forensic Principle: Why Accountability Requires Irreversible Evidence
Forensic evidence trails solve a core problem: proving someone violated a rule without requiring trust in any single authority. The same principle appears in Byzantine consensus, legal systems, and corporate governance.
Why Systems Collapse Suddenly: The Mathematics of Catastrophe
Catastrophe theory explains why lakes flip from clear to turbid overnight, marriages crumble after years of stability, and markets crash without warning. René Thom proved there are exactly seven types of threshold effects.
Why Mechanism Design Can't Escape Social Choice Impossibility
Arrow's impossibility theorem doesn't just constrain voting outcomes — it constrains what mechanisms can implement. The Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem proves the same problem reappears in mechanism design. Designers must choose which fundamental axiom to sacrifice.
Fixed Effects vs. Random Effects: When to Use What in Panel Econometrics
A practical guide to choosing between FE, RE, and Hausman-Taylor estimators in panel data analysis. Covers the Hausman test pitfalls and when each method is appropriate.
TCP Congestion Control and Exchange Rate Overshooting: Dornbusch Meets Van Jacobson
Both TCP and currency markets overshoot because of the same mechanism: fast variables adjusting before slow ones can respond. Same math, same oscillation, same solution — damping through better models.
Polishing Inventory Intelligence: Shared Badges, Single-Pass Queries, and Validation
How Linesheet's Inventory Intelligence feature got refined — extracting a shared badge system across 3 components, replacing 8 separate filter calls with a single-pass accumulator, and adding server-side range validation to analytics thresholds.
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What $1.09 Trillion in Medicaid Spending Actually Looks Like
HHS quietly released 227 million rows of provider-level Medicaid data. I built a platform to explore it. Here's what the numbers reveal about where the money goes.
The Supreme Court Just Struck Down Trump's Tariffs. Here's What Actually Happens Next.
A fact-based breakdown of Learning Resources v. Trump: the 6-3 ruling, the $175 billion refund question, the replacement tariff Trump signed hours later, and what it all means for businesses and consumers.