Optimising Algorithms in a Compute Constrained Environment: the EVM
Numerical algorithms, gas costs and engineering under tight computational limits.
Essays on engineering. Research on the atmosphere.
Conversations about the systems we build.
14 publications
Numerical algorithms, gas costs and engineering under tight computational limits.
Software ownership, dependency risk and the changing economics of maintaining code.
A technical discussion of Ethereum’s changing infrastructure and liquid staking.
Research into protocol changes, their mechanics and their consequences for staking.
An introduction to multisig control, privileged owners and the risks of custody.
A risk assessment of Angle Protocol and its euro stablecoin.
How falling Anchor yields could affect UST exposure and Curve liquidity pools.
Reflexer Finance’s RAI stablecoin, its design and its risks for liquidity providers.
An assessment of Terra’s UST stablecoin, published in December 2021.
My doctoral research into retrieving the vertical position of atmospheric aerosols from satellite observations.
Comparing passive satellite retrievals with lidar observations across aerosol cases.
Satellite observations and model plume heights during the North American fire season.
Accelerating radiative-transfer calculations with neural networks for operational aerosol-height retrieval.
Retrieving aerosol height over bright land using weighted spectral fitting.