Bala Vignesh

Hi! I'm a quantitative researcher by profession and am passionate about solving problems in the field of data science.
Here, I write about anything that piques my interest outside of work.
I’m always open to new ideas and collaborations. Happy to connect!

Crowdsourcing Alpha

Why most crowdsourced trading signal programs fail, and how Numerai's Meta Model Contribution (MMC) solved the incentive alignment problem by rewarding orthogonal alpha instead of test-passing behaviour.

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Reinforcement Learning: Double DQN

This weekend project explores Deep Q-Learning on OpenAI Gym's LunarLander-v2 environment. It shows how the agent learns to land and how different hyperparameters affect its behaviour.

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The Elegance of Minimalism

Purposeful simplicity creates an enduring beauty that resonates beyond form or utility

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Penrose Tiling

The breakthrough in mathematical tiling theory

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Arxiv Search

Search 2.88 million arXiv papers with semantic AI search

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