About

previously

• research resident, pebblebedai that finds zero-days. the kernel-bugs research came out of this.
• rl for math, caltechdistributional rl, and rl with a dynamic action space (a rubik's cube)
• junior staff, hcssimsummer 2024
• ctfcrypto & pwn with squid proxy lovers

off-the-clock

• pianochopin ballade no. 1, mendelssohn andante and rondo capriccioso, beethoven op. 109, chopin fantaisie-impromptu
• skiingpalisades tahoe
• golfand guannigolf, a bilingual wechat channel about golf slang, ai safety, and qft
• languagesenglish, mandarin, french, russian

on-policy-learning

1. 80/20 by default; stop at diminishing returns
2. optimize for expected impact, not vibes
3. meditation, yoga, gym, sleep, water: basic maintenance of hardware
4. try not to overfit on any single datapoint, person, paper, job, or experience
5. default reaction to chaos: contain, sleep, lift, then think
6. choose actions that make my five-years-from-now self maximally happy
7. start at the north star, plan backwards, then walk forwards
8. slope of trajectory over current value of position

cool-to-think-about

• 00visualizing 3-manifolds
• 01what it would be like to live on the klein bottle
• 02the hat problem from elliot glazer
• 03gpu parallelization
• 04visualizing the p-adic field and p-adic ring
• 05how a golf ball compresses at impact
• 06visualizing the vector space of all continuous functions on [0, 1]
• 07visualizing the vector space of all real valued sequences
• 08how em waves (ASK, FSK, PSK, QAM) fill the "empty" space around us
• 09what it feels like to be a plant/boulder/pebble/squirrel

bookshelf