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by Yoyo Yuan • 06-24-2025 #literature


Primary influence: Nicky Case

Highly rated:

  • The Autobiography of Ben Barres
  • Stanislaw Lem: Prolegomena to Omnipotence from Summa Technologiae

Skimmed: Player Piano wikipedia page

Finished reading: Post-Crystallization from Hormone Hunters

Reading:

  • Mechanisms by Sharena Rice
  • Permutation City by Greg Egan

Recently thinking:

  • How can per unit time of scientific revolution pass faster in my computer when I behave like an autoverse junkie?
  • Gaussian integrals

Live bookmarking on curius, retired readlogs here

Livestream

  • Received a series of focused ultrasound stimulations at Koret Neurosciences
  • Received a free ticket to MC0001
  • Dimensionality reduction of San Francisco group houses — play it here
  • The Physics of MRI and ultrasound — notes
  • Visited Neurotech hackathon at Frontier Tower and talked to Sharena Rice
  • Headed to soda hall to larp as a sustainability volunteer to scrap for e-waste, where I was kicked out
  • Asked Ekin from Periodic Labs about his plans to construct the Chemputer + SEM optimization, he was dumbfounded
  • Eugene Izhikevich was building a startup, I asked him how many employees he has. He said it's just him and cursor
  • Lucas Center — Received MR-ARFI + transcranial ultrasound stimulation more than reading it in the literature
  • Stumbled into PhD defense re: the great ungulates of CS by Dr. Xavier Gonzalez
  • Free lunch at Google HQ
  • Attempted to study Earthquakes, greeted by an actual magnitude 6.0 Earthquake in Kamaishi, Japan
  • Jun 2025: Lived in Vivarium, a trans warehouse in SF
  • Infiltrated TreeHacks accidentally with 10 friends

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