Ryan Tolsma

There are many ways to motivate Fourier analysis, and recently I discovered a new one: fourier transforms are what happens when you diagonalize translation symmetry.

I’m not sure why, but high school calculus traditionally jumps straight into the continuous setting completely ignoring the fact that most of the computational methods have clear discrete analogues.

Prediction markets have been taking off.

IVF embryo selection is having a moment.

I came across this article today on top of Hackernews which reminded me of some quant interview questions requiring some clever discrete derivative matrix tricks.

Last fall, I spent a couple of months actively researching the robotics space for problems to solve or good companies to join.

Back in college, I developed an interest in unexpected impossibility proofs applied to real world systems.

You’re a bright young kid striving to change the world.

It’s now been almost two years since graduating from Stanford, and I wanted to carve out a post to reflect deeply on how well I spent my time there, now with the benefit of hindsight, and with the additional goal of informing my future self to bias towards

Autogenerated Dictionary In python, it’s often the case I find myself wanting the ability to very quickly construct dictionaries with nested structures.