Howdy, thanks for stopping by! My name is Nicholas Rose - I work as a software engineer at a hedge fund by day, and write about AI, finance, and other topics by night.
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Posts
Investigating Alien Minds
How Do We Study LLMs and What Are We Learning?
Jun 2026
World War Weird
My views on the future of warfare and the coming conflict with China
Aug 2025
Finance Rules
Why the world of finance is actually really important.
Jul 2025
Genius & Clarity
When regulation... makes sense?
Jul 2025
Silicon to AI Supremacy
A series on of research pieces on all process steps from raw inputs up to frontier models
Introduction
A series on of research pieces on all process steps from raw inputs up to frontier models
Jun 2025
Inputs
Critical raw inputs for modern semiconductors and US dominance.
Jun 2025
Fabrication
How and where leading node semiconductors are manufactured.
Jul 2025
Companies
A list of all the most relevant companies I've come across in my research so far.
Jul 2025
The End of (Human) Software
Predictions about the future of software development and the role of humans in its production.
Jun 2024
ML Projects
Various ML projects & experiments
Tokenizers
BPE and the tradeoffs of tokenization for LLMs
Embeddings
Learning optimal token representations and vector space geometry
Attention & Transformers
The attention mechanism and transformer architecture
Deep Q Networks
Comparing DQN architectures across OpenAI Gym environments
MNIST From Scratch
From-scratch MNIST classifier using only Python standard libraries
GitHub Repo ↗
Full source code for all ML projects