At Xantium, we have always been drawn to people who think deeply, stay curious, and enjoy exploring complex ideas.
Greg Gundersen, a researcher in our New York office, has been writing independently on mathematics, statistics, machine learning, quantitative finance, and related topics since 2017. His blog now spans nearly a decade of work across those areas.
Three posts reflect that range particularly well. In An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes, he sets out a clear explanation of the model with an emphasis on intuition. In The First Ten Years, he reflects on learning, programming, and the process of building expertise. In A History of Large Language Models, he traces some of the main ideas behind modern LLMs and how the field developed.
You can read these pieces, along with many others, on Greg’s personal blog.