Adam Boult

Projects

ArtificialEconomist.com. Ask an artificial economist any question.

Economoose.com. Explore economic data.

YetiPredict.com. Track your own predictions, privately or publicly, to check you are on track and are planning accurately.

Notes

Mathematics

• Logic, the natural numbers and computability (pdf)
• Algebra including linear algebra (pdf)
• Real analysis, variational calculus and functionals (pdf)
• Complex analysis (pdf)
• Abstract algebra (pdf)
• Analytic geometry and Euclidian space (pdf)
• Topology (pdf)

Basic physics

• Newtonian gravity and electrostatics (pdf)
• Special relativity, electromagnetism and general relativity (pdf)
• Rigid body physics (pdf)

Computer science

• Computer science, integer RISC instructions (RV64I) and building a hex and macro assembler (pdf)
• Simple algorithms with integer addition and subtraction and arrays, decision problems, other problems, lossless compression (pdf)
• Algorithms for integer multiplication and division, and floating point arithmetic (pdf)
• Freestanding C, and building a C compiler in assembly then C (pdf)
• Data structures and algorithms (pdf)

Statistics

• Univariate probability (pdf)
• Multivariate probability (pdf)
• Multivariate discriminative probability including machine learning (pdf)
• Fully-connected neural networks (pdf)
• Univariate time series (pdf)
• Multivariate time series (pdf)
• Multivariate probability inference (pdf)
• Probabilistic Turing machines and algorithms, and encryption (pdf)

Science and engineering

• Statistical mechanics (pdf)
• Quantum mechanics and quantum computing (pdf)
• Chemistry and geology (pdf)
• Biology (pdf)
• Engineering (pdf)
• Electronics (pdf)
• Non-volatile storage: computer storage including magnetic memory (magnetic core memory, magnetic tape, floppy disks, hard drives), Semiconductor memory incuding SSD (EPROM/EEPROM/flash memory), optical memory (CD/DVD etc), FAT32 (pdf)

Computers

• CPUs and instruction sets (pdf)
• 2D and 3D graphics, and audio (pdf)
• Networks (pdf)
• Multithreading and multi-core CPUs (RV64IMFDQVA_Zicsr_Zifencei aka RV64GQV) and GPU/TPU/NPUs (pdf)

Operating systems

• RV64GQV_S, dynamic libraries, Memory Mapping Units (MMUs), Address Generation Units (AGUs), protection rings, CPU interrupts and GNU/Linux/Systemd (pdf)
• Hosted C, compiling C code with Linux, and Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) (pdf)
• Securing the system and boot process: Including encrypting systems, Logical Volume Management (LVM), trusted execution environment, secure enclave, Supervisor Mode Access Prevention, Intel Management Engine (ME) and AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) (pdf)
• Networks on Linux (pdf)
• Audio and video output in Linux, and sandboxing applications (pdf)
• Serialisation, single-node databases, Structured Query Language (SQL) and Extract-Transform-Load/Extract-Load-Transform (pdf)

Programming languages

• C++, objects, generic programming, functional programming and clang/LLVM, and transpilers (pdf)
• JavaScript and web development (pdf)
• Python (pdf)
• Rust (pdf)
• R (pdf)

Other languages

• Other imperative languages: Fortran, Algol, Pascal (pdf)
• Other C-family languages: Zig (pdf)
• Scheme and Common Lisp (compiled natively), and dynamic typing (pdf)
• Functional languages: Meta Language (ML), Caml, OCaml and Haskell (pdf)
• Other compiled languages with runtime systems: Objective-C, Nim, Forth, COBOL, Smalltalk and Simula (pdf)
• Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and actor model concurrent languages: Swift, Go (pdf)
• C#, F#, VB.NET and mono (pdf)
• Java, garbage collection, process virtual machines and Kotlin (pdf)
• Other Lisp-family languages, and compiling them to VM: Racket, Clojure and Scala (pdf)
• Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and actor model concurrent languages with virual machines: The BEAM VM and Erlang, Elixer, Dart (other concurrency model?) (pdf)
• Other interpreted languages: Lua, Perl, Ruby, Julia, Octave, PHP and FreeBASIC (pdf)
• Validating code and compilers: Coq (ocaml), compcert, hol (ocaml), isabelle, agda (haskell) (pdf)
• Logical programming languages including ada and prolog (pdf)

Applications

• Reverse engineering hardware, backing up ROMs, hardware emulation including use of JIT and dynamic recompilers, and emulation of retro video game systems (pdf)
• Reverse engineering software (pdf)

Applied statistics

• Natural Language Processing (NLP) of just text, including transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) (pdf)
• Natural Language Processing (NLP) with text and audio (pdf)
• Computer vision (pdf)

More on operating systems

• Specific Linux distributions, system virtual machines, RV64GQVH_S, hardware-assisted virtualisation and OS-level virtualisation with Docker (pdf)
• Distributed computing (pdf)
• Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) (pdf)
• Android (pdf)
• Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) and other non-multitasking operating systems including ZX BASIC, Classic MacOS, PC88, PC98, MSX, Machine Operating System for BBC Micro, Commadore 64 (pdf)

Economics

• Decision and game theory (pdf)
• General equilibrium (pdf)
• Accounting (pdf)
• Industrial organisation (pdf)
• Money, banking and finance and international trade (pdf)
• Microeconomics including information asymmetry, labour markets, externalities, public goods and subscription-based services (pdf)
• Business (pdf)
• Macroeconomics (pdf)
• Public choice and government production of goods (pdf)
• Cryptocurrencies (pdf)
• Specific legislation and regulation (pdf)
• Languages and packages for economics: Dynare for Octave, QuantEcon for Python/Julia, NetLogo; Mesa for Python (pdf)

Philosophy

• History (pdf)
• Epistemology and ontology (pdf)
• Political science and philosophy (pdf)