An introduction to my book, "Building a Production Quant Trading System", a practitioner's guide to the unglamorous 90% of systematic trading: why I wrote it, what to expect, and what not to expect.
A series mining the PhD thesis on London and UK office buildings (Azhari, 2025). Key takeaway. Height above six storeys, post-1980 construction and electrified heating leave the clearest energy signature, but each shifts median EUI by no more than a fifth on its own.
A series mining the PhD thesis on London and UK office buildings (Azhari, 2025). Key takeaway. Before you can measure energy across thousands of offices you must decide what counts as an office. The 3DStock model joins seven public datasets into one geospatial picture.
A series mining the PhD thesis on London and UK office buildings (Azhari, 2025). Key takeaway. A linear regression across the Greater London office stock explains just 18 per cent of electricity EUI and 4 per cent of gas EUI from building characteristics alone.
A series mining the PhD thesis on London and UK office buildings (Azhari, 2025). Key takeaway. A statistical analysis of 2,654 Greater London offices finds no significant relationship between EPC band and measured energy use, which is uncomfortable for MEES, ESOS and due diligence.
An analysis of the Syrian Ministry of Endowments' plan to reclaim historic waqf properties using Ottoman archives. Explore why reopening century-old title deeds acts as a tax on property confidence, undermining post-conflict reconstruction and urban recovery.
A series mining the PhD thesis “London and UK Office Buildings: Investigating Energy Use and Landlord-Tenant Influences” (Azhari, 2025). Key takeaway. Thirty per cent of London office buildings above 1,000 square metres hold 85 per cent of the office floor area and consume 89 per cent of the office energy. The concentration is so extreme
A practical, end-to-end guide to moving a content site from WordPress to Next.js without losing your search rankings: the URL-preservation rule that governs everything, a content pipeline that survives the move, bilingual and RTL handling, the SEO and security work, and a cutover you can roll back.
How an ordinary teenager came to out-know Ptolemy, and why the same structural progress makes every one of us more ignorant than anyone who has ever lived. Hand a modern fifteen-year-old a blank sheet of paper and ask them to map the architecture of the cosmos, and they will sketch, without a moment’s hesitation, a