Writings and Projects

Here listed are some of the longer writings / projects I have done in the past. Some of them lean more practical, some of them less so. Most of them are written and compiled in LaTeX so they are visually organized.

Thesis

The provisional thesis is titled Neutral Powers, Global Pressures: Supply Shocks, Export Booms, and Monetary Policy Responses to Inflation in Non-Belligerent Economies: 1914-1920. It challenges conventional monetary explanations of World War I inflation through a novel examination of neutral economies (Sweden, the United States, and Japan) during 1914-1920. Rather than attributing price increases solely to monetary expansion or central bank behaviors, I argue that the combination of severe global supply constraints and export-driven growth in neutral nations generated substantial inflationary pressures. Through analysis of price indices, trade statistics, and central bank documents, we show how wartime trade disruptions and commodity scarcity created persistent price pressures that traditional monetary policy tools, particularly those constrained by the gold standard, proved inadequate to address.

Programming

I have built a French vocabulary dictionary documentation tool using Python with the help of Claude to query LLMs and add these queried vocabs into a LaTeX file that can be compiled and displayed for review purposes. Furthermore, it offers exports integration with Anki so you can study them all very easily! If I were to find the time, I can extend language support to be more expansive. It should be relatively straightforward for major languages that are in Latin alphabets.

I have also built this natural language calendar assistant to solve the annoying problem of manually entering calendar events. Using Python and Claude, I built a desktop app that lets you create calendar events just by typing them naturally (like "Team lunch next Tuesday at noon") or by dropping in photos of event invitations. The app automatically processes everything and creates proper calendar events in all operating systems. I was tired of clicking through multiple fields just to add simple events, and I figured others might find this useful too!

Long & Short: “Swipe Right on Match, Left on Bumble” ($MTCH, $BMBL), May 2024

Short: “Chegg Mate: AI Puts Chegg in Check” ($CHGG), March 2023