Neurotech/comp neuro, systems-thinking, physics, cs ∘ gender-neutral language ∘ large lyapunov exponents ∘ email, pawsitive feedback (blog), other writings

[ Bookmarks ]
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               +---------- o [ PRIMARY INFLUENCE ]
               |           Nicky Case 🐛
               |
  Highly rated o--------+
               |         o  The Autobiography of Ben Barres 🦋
               |         o  Stanislaw Lem: Prolegomena to Omnipotence
               |              from Summa Technologiae
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               +------- o [ Thinking about ]
               |        o -- Tackling the subsampling problem to infer collective properties from limited data
               |        o -- Accurate estimation of neural population dynamics without spike sorting 
               |                 
               +-- >> [ Skimmed ] -- Player Piano wikipedia page 
               |
    Finished reading o --- At the Mountains of Madness illustrated by Gou Tanabe
               |     o --- Post-Crystallization from Hormone Hunters      
               |                  
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               +-- [ Reading ]
               |    o  Mechanisms by Sharena Rice
               |    o  1587, a Year of No Significance
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    Lost attention and stopped reading o-----+
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               +-- o Project Hail Mary 
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               +-- Live bookmarking on curius, older readlogs here 🖇️  
            

[ About ]

I'm Yoyo, student at Minerva based in Palo Alto. DMs open for joyous conversations, flights in the forest, coreading, hosting events, etc. I can be hired to work on neurotech software, run quantum mechanical simulations, write research code, papers or host salons

[ Quests ]

Ongoing: Reading papers on physics/math of neuroscience, statistical mechanics, neuro seminars

Building low-cost scalable electrode arrays with Eigenlucy notes

Olfaction visualization with metal oxide sensors search · talk

quantum chemistry calculations at Chimia

NFC programming with currents.fm

arXiv RAG, arXiv wars

[ Events I hosted ]

something beautiful hackathon (Apr 2025)

TEDx Youth (Sept 2023)

[ My Mutuals ]

            
     +- [ People ] ------------------ o [ @eigenlucy ]
     |                                                |
     | o [ bmorphism ]                                |
     | o [ @schlynthesis ]                            |
     | o [ @InquilineKea ] -----------+-------------- o [ @a_naia_ ]
     +                                |                         
     |                                +--- o [ @layer07_yuxi ]
     |                                +--- o [ yudhister ]
     |   +--------------------------- +--- o [ zaira.blog ] 
     |   o [ @LydNot ]                  
     |-- o [ adaptivegood (ada)]
     |        
     +-------{ trinity dysis   }
             { svitlana midianko  }
             { @euxinianathema }
            

[ Notebooks ]

4 days in Shanghainese anime ecology!

Huaqiangbei vignette

Science across ja/en/cn

all writing

[ Streams ]

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   _habitations o----------+
               |          [o] Shenzhen, spawned and existed online as a spotted owl by name of Otulissa
               |          [o] Waterloo
               |          [o] San Francisco, going to owl school (Minerva)
               |          [o] Tokyo, the extended relaxation center 
               |          [o] Palo Alto, return
               |
  _grateful for support from mutuals o------+
    +-- [ Acquired 1 petaFLOP computer and MacBook for free ] 
               |          [o] 1517 Medici Fund
               |          [o] Merge Grant
               |          [o] MAA
               |
               +---------- o [ Activities ]
               |           o-- Dimensionality reduction of San Francisco group houses: play it here
               |           o-- The Physics of MRI and ultrasound notes
               |           o-- Coworking with yudhister
               |           o-- Visited Neurotech hackathon at Frontier Tower and talked to Sharena Rice
               |           o-- Asked Surya Ganguli about bypassing spike sorting paper
               |           o-- [ Old Chem Bldg ] >> Coworking with zaira.blog & tol.sh
               |           o-- Free e-waste on the 8th floor of berkeley way west!
               |           I headed to soda hall to seek more e-waste, where I was kicked out ]
               |           o-- Asked Ekin from Periodic Labs about his plans to construct
               |             The Chemputer + SEM optimization, he was dumbfounded
               |           o-- Eugene Izhikevich was building a startup, I asked him how many 
               |                employees he has. He said it's just him and cursor.
               |           o-- [ Lucas Center ] >> Received MR-ARFI + 
               |                transcranial ultrasound stimulation more than reading it 
               |                in the literature, this is epic!!
               |           o-- Acquired Pie w/ @LydNot at Varian Physics building
               |           o-- Stumbled into PhD defense re: the great ungulates of CS by Dr. Xavier Gonzalez 
               |           o-- Free Lunch at Google HQ 
               |           o-- Attempted to study Earthquakes, greeted by an 
               |            actual magnitude 6.0 Earthquake in Kamaishi, Japan pfffff
               |           o-- jun 2025: Lived in Vivarium, a trans warehouse in SF
               |           o-- Infiltrated TreeHacks accidentally with 10 friends
               |
               +-- ~ other activities ~
                  [o] Reconstructed sagittal MRI of my fellow winged creature, @InquilineKea 🦜
            

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