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My name is Mathias, and I’m now a young professional with a background in business strategy, network economics, and computer science.

Starting May 2023, I will share thoughts and projects on a wide range of subjects. Every article is built on the same structure : Goals/Process/Results/Review.

From NFTs to Naked CDS: A data-driven approach to risk assessment

Here’s an edited version of your writing, with some enhancements for clarity, readability, and style: Crypto and NFTs draw out a great deal of skepticism, but they may well be the best way to offer open financial products to a wide audience. My interest in financial products was sparked by Ethereum flash loans, at the same time I was reading Subprime Mortgage Credit derivatives. Before that, my knowledge of Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and Collateral Debt Obligations (CDO) was limited to what I saw in the movie The Big Short....

September 3, 2023 · 13 min · 2668 words · Mathias
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Front-running Unibet for fun and profit

This blog will be longer, two NBA seasons longer, to be precise. It covers a more complex project than some others I have written about. It’s about sports betting and ranges from tweets and basketball to databases and browser automation. Sports betting has always been an interest of mine, especially basketball. During my university days, I had a friend who was also into sports betting, and we often discussed our favorite teams and players....

June 2, 2023 · 18 min · 3628 words · Mathias
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Experiencing ChatGPT through a use case

Last year, I accessed the closed beta for ChatGPT. I tried it once, only to come back a few weeks later to find that all my free tokens had expired. With their latest release, I decided to give it another shot. I came up with a basic use case after talking to a friend of mine in the legal industry. He had to send out similar documents to each of his clients, which was a tedious process if you’re not familiar with the “Merge Mail” function in Microsoft Word....

May 6, 2023 · 7 min · 1441 words · Mathias
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From scroll to brawl : Behind the scenes of my first TikTok

Last week I found myself scrolling on the web and came across a Youtube Shorts featuring a minecraft discord session including Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Barack Obama. Witty jokes and political references were quite funny and the voices were truly convincing. I thought it was clever and wanted to give it a try. I don’t play Minecraft anymore so I opted for another theme, a service I was working on and wanted to promote through a funny Tiktok on the same basis as the Minecraft Shorts....

May 2, 2023 · 3 min · 478 words · Mathias