Before

• built a startup called socket (acq. 2023)
• spent time working on ai research, engineering, and policy
• studied cs (m.s, ai track) and math (b.s) at stanford
• lived in nyc, vancouver, and shanghai
• old website archive coming soon

Topics of interest

Hobbies

• todo

Content

• stuff i've made (research, projects, writing)

Research

• you can look for research topics under "topics of interest"
• google scholar

Writing

• my old substack is here
• this post did well on HN (top 3 trending)
• new writing coming soon...

Quotes

favourite book and movie quotes

• "There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
• "Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty."
• "Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."
• "Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility."
• "It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love."
• "Plants such as peonies, azaleas and camellias will be able to produce beautiful flowers, end of the world or not. If men would give some thought to this fact, they would understand. And if people took notice of the masters of even these times, they would be able to say that there are masters in the various arts. But people become imbued with the idea that the world has come to an end and no longer put forth any effort. This is a shame. There is no fault in the times."
• "When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless."
• "At first it is an oppressive thing to run until one is breathless. But it is an extraordinarily good feeling when one is standing around after the running. More than that, it is even better to sit down. More than that, it is even better to lie down. And more than that, to put down a pillow and sleep soundly is even better. A man's whole life should be like this. To exert oneself to a great extent when one is young and then to sleep when he is old or at the point of death is the way it should be. But to first sleep and then exert oneself."
• "With an intense, fresh and undelaying spirit, one will make his judgments within the space of seven breaths."
• "If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too, is but a single day."
• "Something that is not done at that time and at that place will remain unfinished for a lifetime."
• "A person who becomes fatigued when unhappy is useless."
• "The greats never sacrifice the important for the urgent."

tweets and quotes from friends etched into my brain

bangers. some are modified

• "This is a game. You ask for or state or express what you want, and then you either get it or you don't. Whether you get it or not doesn't really matter, what matters is you don't flinch."
• "You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else."
• "you have access to your optimal policy at all times. you just choose not to follow it. you can literally access it by asking 'what should i be doing rn?'"
• use ai to 10x output not 0.1x skill

Movies

Classics I rewatch (not necessarily original)

• Ocean's 11/12
• Rounders
• Risky Business
• The Incredibles
• Iron Man 2
• The Big Short
• Good Will Hunting
• Forrest Gump
• Moneyball
• Sound of Music (1965)
• The Social Network
• Pursuit of Happyness
• Inception
• Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
• The Hunt for Red October
• The Imitation Game
• Margin Call

Reading

• Coming soon...

investing

• knowtex ai
• norm ai
• hamming ai
• k-scale
• other ai and stealth robotics cos
• always looking to hear from cool people working on new projects

Projects Archive

• Coming soon...

Random

• i welcome ideas and thoughts from people via pseudonyms and anon accounts
• you can leave thoughts under the feedback section

leave feedback and errata for me below

Other People

• List of other people's pages you should follow - coming soon...

words that attach you to certain opinions

what is the minimal set of things that needs to be said, that precisely mean what you want them to mean? words that imply too little and/or too much than you want when speaking with someone for the first time.

• "updating",priors,posteriors
• upside
• deprecation
• optionality, markets
• maximize utility
• couch, wonk, crux
• decentralise

Looking for

• collaborators on research and content
• new ways to apply ai to the world's problems - if this is you, please feel free to reach out
• reading recs
• new productivity stacks
• good running routes in sf
• matcha setups

Contact

• drop me a note here or via my email hello [at] evazhang [dot] com
• i aim to reply to cold emails within 12-24h
• it's easiest to respond to emails with concrete ideas or questions

Blogroll

• Coming soon...