Machine Learning

Identifying Market Regimes with the Wasserstein K-Means Algorithm – Python Tutorial

Financial markets never move in a straight line. They go through regimes - periods where price behavior, volatility, and sentiment follow...
Rajandran R
11 min read

The Long Road to Machine Intelligence: From Early AI Winters to Modern Neural Networks

The journey of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a winding path of groundbreaking discoveries, periods of disillusionment, and remarkable comebacks. From...
Rajandran R
1 min read

FinBERT and Latent Space: What Every Trader Needs to Know About AI Market Analysis

Discover how FinBERT AI analyzes financial news with 85% accuracy. Learn latent space visualization, PCA, and why fine-tuned models outperform originals.
Rajandran R
14 min read

Fine-Tuning Gemma 3 270M for Financial Sentiment Analysis using UnSloth

Five days ago, I published an article explaining LoRA and QLoRA as game-changers for traders wanting to fine-tune AI models. The...
Rajandran R
7 min read

LoRA & QLoRA Explained: How Traders Can Fine-Tune AI Like They Fine-Tune a Strategy

Most traders have heard about AI by now. But let’s be honest , most of it feels too complicated or too...
Rajandran R
1 min read

Demystifying SHAP for Traders: How to Trust Your Machine Learning Forecast

In this post I walk through a live CatBoost model that forecasts the NIFTY-50 and then crack it open with SHAP...
Rajandran R
6 min read

Short-Term vs Long-Term AI Risks: Explained by Geoffrey Hinton

One of the most vocal and respected figures in this discourse is Geoffrey Hinton, often hailed as the Godfather of AI....
Rajandran R
3 min read

GPU vs CPU Performance: A Curious Experiment in Speed and Parallelism for Technical Analysis

Lately, I’ve been curious—how much faster is a GPU compared to CPU for technical analysis indicators? Do simple operations like EMA,...
Rajandran R
5 min read

Build Your Own Trading Agent Locally Using Ollama and Google Gemma3 – Part 1

Discover how traders and investors can harness the power of local AI by running Google’s Gemma3 models using Ollama on Windows—without...
Rajandran R
2 min read

Diffusion-Based LLMs: A New Era in Language Modeling

The field of large language models (LLMs) is undergoing a revolutionary transformation with the introduction of diffusion-based models, breaking away from...
Rajandran R
2 min read

Understanding Look-Ahead Bias and How to Avoid It in Trading Strategies

In quantitative finance and algorithmic trading, look-ahead bias is one of the most common pitfalls that can cause a trading strategy...
Rajandran R
6 min read

How to Build AI Agents: Lessons from Anthropic

Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents are one of the hottest topics in the AI space right now. Companies are racing to build...
Rajandran R
2 min read