Last month, I provided a solution for Chainlink on how best to model implied volatility (IV) on-chain for both Bitcoin and Ethereum options using price feeds and oracles. If you’re not super familiar with how Ethereum smart contracts work or The Oracle Problem, I’ll give a brief summary before diving…

Last week, I took Google’s Tensorflow Certification exam, a grueling 5-hour endeavor where the tester is required to build highly accurate models pertaining to image classification, text classification, and time-series predictors. I ended up passing the exam, but it definitely was a beast and required incremental accumulation of subject matter…

I wanted to quickly share some of my original research from today on the markets since we’re getting into the thick of things going into November. Are the financial markets better off now than 4 years ago?

I’m really starting to see the markets like a great ocean — there are parts of the ocean that are turbulent, other parts, in the very same moment, are calm. You survey the parts of the ocean your curious about based on the logs of past journeys…you plot your course, your routes, and you know what to expect from potential dangers. Then once you’ve plotted your route and your potential escape routes, you just embark — and trust your map of the territory.

I haven’t stopped thinking about Kobe Bryant today. Been thinking about how such a tragedy could occur, the meaning behind it…and then I realized that’s not the way to think about it. When bad things happen, its important to find the silver lining, and the silver lining I see is…

So its happened…you’re moving to the cloud, its finally a green light to start moving services and applications. Your company has gone through the analysis, it makes sense. Now what? Almost every major company in the world has admitted to themselves the strategic benefit moving to cloud computing can provide…

AI is truly some incredible technology. This week I was messing around with building generative adversarial networks (GANs) with TensorFlow and this morning I woke up to some pretty incredible results as my models trained over night. In short, GANs are when you have two artificial neural networks that compete…

What do cutting-edge stock traders, Amazon, and giant bird swarms all have in common? As a cloud architect and business professional, its exciting to see an area of finance rapidly emerging from hedge funds that is the crux between finance and technology: algorithmic trading. Algorithmic trading is the practice of…

Coming off of the recent news of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork into BCH ABC and BCH SV, it made me think about the commercial implications of blockchain forks. TLDR: Forks in blockchains add costs to the commercial entities using it. Let’s take an analogy…imagine if HTTP as an…