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Pavel Kazantsev 💎

AI ML engineer. Systematic quant research, honest post-mortems, and reproducible experiments.

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Master’s in Computer Science

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I Went Looking for the Dead Internet in My RAG. I Found a Bad Experiment.

I Went Looking for the Dead Internet in My RAG. I Found a Bad Experiment.

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I Tested 7 Crypto Models. The Best Signal Failed the Cost Test.

I Tested 7 Crypto Models. The Best Signal Failed the Cost Test.

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My test suite had 216 passing tests. It was lying to me.

My test suite had 216 passing tests. It was lying to me.

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I Let an LLM Agent Search for Trading Strategies. A Simple Heuristic Beat It.

I Let an LLM Agent Search for Trading Strategies. A Simple Heuristic Beat It.

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14,399 Backtest Events Gave Me t = 8.20. Equal-Weighting Days Gave 1.66

One extreme flash crash day explains the results

14,399 Backtest Events Gave Me t = 8.20. Equal-Weighting Days Gave 1.66

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I Built an AI That Checks Whether Digital Products Deliver What They Promise

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

I Built an AI That Checks Whether Digital Products Deliver What They Promise

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I Tested 58 Trading Hypotheses. 48 Failed. Here’s the Framework That Killed Them.

Rigorous five-gate filter for false alpha

I Tested 58 Trading Hypotheses. 48 Failed. Here’s the Framework That Killed Them.

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Green Tests, Broken Architecture: Four Models Review TypeScript Diffs

Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge Submission

Green Tests, Broken Architecture: Four Models Review TypeScript Diffs

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I Killed My Electron App Twice to Test Crash Recovery

I Killed My Electron App Twice to Test Crash Recovery

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I Recorded 10,847 Frames While Coding. Only 30 Were Worth Keeping.

I Recorded 10,847 Frames While Coding. Only 30 Were Worth Keeping.

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Three Crypto Edges. What Survived the Audit?

Three Crypto Edges. What Survived the Audit?

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My Football Model Passed Validation. A Five-Check Audit Killed It.

My Football Model Passed Validation. A Five-Check Audit Killed It.

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My crypto backtest had a sharpe of 13.4. Then I added trading costs

My crypto backtest had a sharpe of 13.4. Then I added trading costs

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