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Greetings I am Yoyo! I can orchestrate chaos. See my notebook. Work with me. Domains of interest include physics, ML, neuroscience.


fish
Mountain view, CA

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Bookmarks

Reading: Snow Crash

Just finished reading: Ben Barres Autobiography

Temporary Autonomous Zones

Journal of My Other Self

Post-Crystallization from Hormone Hunters, the Discovery of Adrenaline

Prolegomena to Omnipotence from Summa Technologiae

More is different

Friendship is Optimal from Heaven is Terrifying

The origin of extracellular fields and currents — EEG, ECoG, LFP and spikes

Find me on are.na Older readlogs here

Selected quests

Ongoing: Reverse engineering microelectrode arrays and biosensing boards with Eigenlucy notes

Comparing olfaction in humans and custom metal oxide sensor also with Eigenlucy search & visualization talk at Ekkolapto metal oxide sensor pcb by lucy

NFC key changer contributor at currents.fm

Multiplayer arxiv wars

Assembling a laser cutter with Paul Han image


Selected notes

4 days in shanghainese anime ecology!

Huaqiangbei vignette

Science across ja/en/cn

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Willing to support fellow researchers and builders outside of traditional institutions through writing, collaboration and offering practical resources. Reach me harvest@adiabatic.garden or X. Find me inactive on substack.
cn yay trans-rights

recommended: eigenlucy, ada, yuxi, alexkchen, naia, ∞-modal noah, graphfei, svitlana, lydia, aryl, guillefix


Places lived: Shenzhen, Waterloo, SF, Tokyo, etc.

Institutions: Minerva University class of 2028, 1517 Medici grantees.

Care a lot about: Seeing whole systems/complex causality, information compression, field observation and validation first, cultural fluency, deep friendship

Not welcome:

Credentialist discussions, ethical debates, noisy projects, bad-faith arguments. If you see systems as a buzzword, we are going to have a fairly short conversation.

Major influences: Nicky Case, Audrey Tang (唐鳳)

Spending thousands of waking hours deteriorating to hyperpop, edm, vocaloid, rave and instrumental music :D Representative songs: Stellaris - Deep space travels, 【洛天依原创曲】《不老不死》, UneXpect - Chromatic Chimera, Spaze - Revolution (DEMO)

Topics: physics, cs, philosophy, neuroscience; shanghai maglev, inverted monorail, solarpunk, ancient civilizations, mythology, Chinese history, Russian golden - silver age, modernist literature, cybernetics, structuralism, semiotics, deconstruction, beyond humanism.

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