Sharif Haason

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  1. A New Chapter: Graduation and a New Role at Monark

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  2. The December Fed Meeting: What to Watch

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  3. Why 50-Year Mortgages Fall Short

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  4. Jefferies and First Brands: What the Trade Debt Means

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  5. Why Rate Cuts Won't Fix a Labor Supply Shock

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  6. Oil Prices and the Energy Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill

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  7. Neural Networks Aren't Impressive on Their Own

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  8. The Case for Structured Errors in Rust

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  9. Rust's `subsecond` Crate Brings Hot Reloading

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  10. What a U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade Means

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  11. Rust at 10: Why I've Followed the Language

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  12. FE-621 Week 14: Copulas and Portfolio Risk

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  13. FE-621 Week 11: Monte Carlo and Variance Reduction

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  14. FE-621 Week 12: Euler–Milstein and Monte Carlo Extensions

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  15. FE-621 Week 13: Neural Networks and Credit Ratings

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  16. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 11

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  17. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 12

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  18. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 13

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  19. Why Federal Reserve Independence Matters

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  20. Vietnam and the Tariff Shock

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  21. The Big Short and the Boring Cause of the 2008 Crisis

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  22. Romania's Export-Driven Debt Strategy as a Warning

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  23. China's Tariff Strategy and the One-Punch Proverb

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  24. Why Crashing the Economy Won't Work

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  25. FE-621 Week 10: Calibration and SDE Parameter Estimation

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  26. FE-621 Week 9: Stochastic Volatility, Jumps, and Fourier Transforms

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  27. Misinformation in Volatile Markets

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  28. Documentation Is the Key to Vibe Coding

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  29. Rust 1.86: `get_disjoint_mut`

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  30. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 10

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  31. FE-621 Midterm Cheat Sheet

    Handwritten midterm reference for quadrature and Black-Scholes notation; several formulas are unclear in the source render.

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  32. The Cost of AI-Generated Images

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  33. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 9

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  34. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 8

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  35. FE-621 Week 7: American Options and Cubic Splines

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  36. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 6

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  37. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 7

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  38. FE-621 Finite-Difference Sketches

    A handwritten finite-difference sketch with A/B/C labels; surrounding equation notation is unclear in the source render.

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  39. FE-621 Week 6: Crank–Nicolson and the Heston Model

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  40. FE-621 Week 5: Differential Equations and PDE Methods

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  41. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 4

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  42. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 5

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  43. PBMs Under Fire: What CVS's Response Leaves Out

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  44. FE-621 Week 3: Tree Approximation and American Options

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  45. FE-621 Week 4: Trinomial Trees, Dividends, and Greeks

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  46. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 1

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  47. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 2

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  48. FE-680 Advanced Derivatives: Week 3

    • FE-680 | Advanced Derivatives

  49. FE-621 Week 1: Stochastic Processes and Computational Pricing

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  50. FE-621 Week 2: Black–Scholes, Calibration, and Implied Volatility

    • FE-621 | Computational Methods in Finance

  51. The Cost of Transit Delays

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  52. Rust 1.84: Three Infrastructure Changes

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  53. Default Fields in Rust Structs

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  54. Rust 1.83 Brings More `const`

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  55. A Rainbow on Election Day

    A brief pause from election-day politics to notice an unexpected rainbow.

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  56. Remembering the Boarding-School History

    A reflection on President Biden's apology for federal Indian boarding schools.

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  57. Minneapolis Housing and Zoning

    What Minneapolis changed in its zoning rules, and what happened to housing and rents.

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  58. A CUPS Vulnerability Explained

    An overview of the 2024 CUPS printer-discovery vulnerability and its risk.

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  59. How rustc_codegen_clr Connects Rust to .NET

    A short guide to Rust's compiler pipeline and a backend that targets .NET.

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  60. What Washing Machines Can Teach Us About Tariffs

    A look at the 2018 washing-machine tariffs, consumer costs, and U.S. manufacturing.

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  61. NVIDIA, Cisco, and Market Euphoria

    Bill Smead compares current enthusiasm for AI with the dot-com era's Cisco boom.

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  62. Bessent on Tariffs and the Deficit

    A response to Scott Bessent's arguments about tariffs, inflation, and fiscal policy.

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  63. What the Price Gouging Prevention Act Says

    A summary of the 2024 bill's price-gouging language, defenses, and penalties.

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  64. Floating Point Architecture

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  65. IEEE-754

    • Computer Architecture

  66. Floating Point

    • Computer Architecture

  67. Network Security

    • Internet Technology

  68. A Crash Course in Python

    • Principles of Programming Languages

  69. Disks

    • Operating Systems Design

  70. Particles

    • Physics

  71. Multimedia Networking

    • Internet Technology

  72. Control in Prolog

    • Principles of Programming Languages

  73. Special Relativity

    • Physics

  74. Waves

    • Physics

  75. The Link Layer

    • Internet Technology

  76. Prolog

    • Principles of Programming Languages

  77. Threads

    • Operating Systems Design

  78. Routing Algorithms

    • Internet Technology

  79. Swapping

    • Operating Systems Design

  80. Routers

    • Internet Technology

  81. Mirrors

    • Physics

  82. Lambda Calculus

    • Principles of Programming Languages

  83. More Internet Protocols

    • Internet Technology

  84. Electromagnetic Waves

    • Physics

  85. ISP Addressing

    • Internet Technology

  86. Making a Website with Zola, Github Pages, and Github Actions

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  87. Currying Arguments in a Function

    • Principles of Programming Languages

  88. HTTP Explained

    • Internet Technology

  89. Paging

    • Operating Systems Design

  90. TCP Explained

    • Internet Technology

  91. Electromagnetic Induction

    • Physics

  92. Data Types in OCaml

    • Principles of Programming Languages

  93. Operational Semantics

    • Principles of Programming Languages

  94. Tail Recursion in OCaml

    • Principles of Programming Languages

  95. UDP Explained

    • Internet Technology

  96. Magnets

    • Physics

  97. SMTP Explained

    • Internet Technology

  98. Higher Order Functions in OCaml

    • Principles of Programming Languages

  99. FTP Explained

    • Internet Technology

  100. Memory Virtualization

    • Operating Systems Design

  101. Lets, Tuples, and Records in OCaml

    • Principles of Programming Languages

  102. Circuits

    • Physics

  103. DNS Explained

    • Internet Technology

  104. Packet Switching vs Message Switching

    • Internet Technology

  105. Scheduling

    • Operating Systems Design

  106. Lists in OCaml

    • Principles of Programming Languages

  107. Electric Potential

    • Physics

  108. Functions in OCaml

    • Principles of Programming Languages

  109. Electrostatics

    • Physics

  110. CPU Virtualization

    • Operating Systems Design