Lucas Pauker

We love to optimize Technical people love to optimize every little thing.

Debugging prod after shipping on Friday Your job as a software engineer Every line of production code is a bet on speed, safety, and correctness.

How to learn I did competitive gymnastics growing up, and the training was chaos…in a good way.

He had chased the city for most of his life.

I have recently seen a lot of rhetoric about this study that shows that developers take longer to code with AI compared to without AI.

Recently, when I was at the airport looking to get a ride share back home I checked the price of both Uber and Lyft.

I remember watching a video a while ago where a pro card counter answers questions about gambling.

With holiday season in full swing, people may be more enticed to give to charity.

This is a story about me.

Why home runs?

Introduction The goal of this article is to explore the latency of different OpenAI models.

Disclaimer: This article mentions https://terra-cotta.ai/, an LLM experimentation platform I am building Introduction ChatGPT, Bard, and other large language models (LLMs) are very useful for a wide variety of tasks from writing code to answering complex…

Advancements in artificial intelligence and language models have made significant impacts in various fields from healthcare to finance to entertainment.

In this blog post, we will explain why H-2A is a crucial program that supports the livelihood of countless farmers and workers.

Introduction Everyone has a framework, a basis by which they make decisions and navigate the uncertainty of the world.

At the beginning of 2022, we began the Floodgate Reactor program with the hopes of finding a successful startup idea and learning how to build a successful company.

Below are reflections of our startup journey participating in the Floodgate Reactor Program.

Introduction I recently decided to restore an old Peugeot bike.

Introduction I recently read Ed Thorpe’s Beat the Dealer, a book about how Thorpe, a mathematician, found a way to gain an edge in blackjack.

Faster than a Supercomputer?

Introduction In this blog post, I will implement a few simple time series models of a stock price over time.

Introduction This blog post will discuss the delivery options for someone who is short US Treasury (UST) futures contracts.

Why Exchange Clocks Matter In high frequency trading (HFT), time is literally money.

The Question I, like many others, started learning to play piano when I was around 8 years old.

Introduction I spent the summer of 2019 as a physics research intern at the Stanford University Solar Lab.

Recently, I wondered if I could create a random number generator using the digits of pi.

Introduction This project done for my CS221 class aims to classify classical music by musical era (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern) with composers as a proxy.

Introduction I recently became interested in neural networks and sought interesting applications of what they could do.

This project done for my CS106X class mixes two given mp3 files together and has a visualization to go with it.