Michael Brenndoerfer
I work across AI, technology, and private equity.
Here, I share the ideas behind the work.
Books
Machine learning, language AI, and quantitative finance, explained from first principles.
The math, intuition, and Python behind the algorithms.
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From classical NLP to transformers and modern language models.
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Writing
Artificial intelligence
Explains how QKV projections enable transformers to learn flexible attention patterns through specialized query, key, and value representations.
Finance & markets
Market crashes erase quoted value rather than moving a fixed pool of cash. Covers forced selling, liquidity, wealth effects, price discovery, and recovery.
AI agents
AI agents combine a language model with tools, memory, and control logic. This article separates agents from workflows and multi-agent systems.
Finance & markets
Covers quadratic programming (QP) for portfolio optimization, including the mean-variance framework, efficient frontier construction.