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Some things I've built and worked on.
Aug 2025 -
- E2E driving models
- Neuroai because why not interp the most trained models we have
- Simulating things that bend
- Superhuman controls on highly underactuated robotics
- Things quantum, photonic and gravitational (though only connected as P3)
- Bouncing around brain reading with lasers
Orbit
Tried neurostimulation but thought about it
harder
- Designed little stimulation devices and demoed awesome effects to lots of friends
- Managed to both put people to sleep & make them feel wired!
- Worked with some of the smartest people I've ever met
- I love systems and we get to see an alien design of the most complex system ever
Robotics
Built competitive robots out of my garage
- Started a team with my friends when I was 15 with the principle that "anyone on the driveway is part of the team"
- Took some long-shots that paid off pretty well! (got to 4th / 3300+ in the world)
- I learned a lot of intention & effort (60+ hrs/week) beats any experience
- Sidequest: found a suspiciously high success rate debating refs and started a passion for negotiation (story for another time)
Oldies but goodies
- Found singularity points to be cool so started working on a 6-dof robot arm with a good friend (only 2-dofs made it out of simulation since it's pretty redundant work)
- Got interested in SpaceX landings when I was 15 so I learned NLP to simulate one (GFOLD is an awesome paper)
-
A
convex optimization
library in Java
- Friends beat me at chess when I was 14 so I made a questionable 2000+ rated chess engine over a weekend instead
- Went deep into CV, cameras, lenses and calibration/modeling (and factor grap... I mean nonlinear least squares)
- Built trajectory optimization solvers for double jointed arms and swerve drives! (lagrangian mechanics is sick)
Other things
- Learning how to tie knots and lashings on my eagle scout journey and find them consistently useful!
- Was absurdly competitive while working on my pinewood derby car and raingutter regatta boat
- Fulfilled the cliché of building discord bots for minecraft
- Spent a lot of time doing photocomposition and painting to create art with photoshop (so many layers)
If you can't tell, I love optimization algorithms and try to apply them to everything