I am a forward-deployed engineer at Ancera.
I am interested in calm solutions for noisy physical processes, like biology at scale.
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Jane Street's ‘Pent-Up’ Frustration 3 / Knight Moves 7 Puzzle: Constraint Satisfaction and Backtracking
Solving Jane Street's ‘Pent-Up’ Frustration 3 / Knight Moves 7 puzzle with backtracking depth-first search.
Estimating disease prevalence by fusing pooled and individual testing
Turning our arXiv paper into an interactive walk-through. Combine pooled and individual disease tests into a single closed-form Bayesian posterior for population prevalence sans MCMC.
Jane Street's Robot Baseball Puzzle: Markov Games and Golden Section Search
Solving Jane Street's Robot Baseball puzzle with Markov game analysis and golden section search, an enjoyable mix of symbolic math and numerical methods.
