Xuanyu Chen

Writing

Short research notes and project writeups: backtesting, markets, data analysis, and NLP/LLMs.

2026

How LoRA works, how quantization reduces memory, and how QLoRA combines both for efficient fine-tuning.

8 min read
#ai#fine-tuning#llm

How oil is priced through spot and futures markets, what moves oil prices, and what the spreads between benchmarks tell us about the market.

8 min read
#oil#finance#investing

The fundamentals of fine-tuning a large language model — from data preparation and hyperparameters to the training loop and evaluation.

6 min read
#ai#fine-tuning#llm

What is crude oil, what comes out of a barrel, who produces and consumes it, and how it moves around the world — the foundation for understanding oil prices.

7 min read
#oil#finance#investing

A personal budgeting web app that reverses the typical spending-then-tracking loop. Plan your budget first, then track transactions against the plan with live variance.

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6 min read
#project#web-dev#next-js