Observed arrival · 2026-10-06
Aryan Malik’s markets, loops, and quant ambitions
A Rutgers student’s personal site combines a quant-engineering portfolio, an AI agent that answers questions about him, play-money markets on his habits, and a daily graph puzzle.
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- For
- Readers curious about quant engineering and personal experiments
- Worth noticing
- Market odds use a stated smoothing formula, while bets are play-money and remain in the visitor’s browser for now.
Field notes
The markets use public data to settle play-money contracts, with odds based on a displayed smoothing formula; Malik says he does not trade them. The daily loop is a timed graph puzzle with a single daily attempt, and the page says the server checks a route against the true shortest loop. Several projects are explicitly marked as in progress, including the player-prop model.
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○OpenPublic substance visible
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✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
◉HumanPersonal, local, civic, or handmade
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