I enjoy your site, how can I help?

Intros, send cool reads and internships!

Where can I find you?

Email, befriend me on Telegram, X
Memes, paper stash, collaboration ideas are welcome!

Recent posts?

swarm intelligence algorithms, swarm robots, drone photogrammetry, growing neurons

What are you curious about now?

Alife, complex intelligence, cognitive science.

Occasionally asked questions

• My strongest influences: Nicky Case, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman, the Genius trilogy, Friendship is optimal: Caelum est conterrens.

• “Yoyo, I can’t read your mind.” Here’s an (old) page about being friends or collaborating with me.

• List of 100 questions. Thank you for the answer_to_yoyo_questions.pdf

• Raised by the internet. Coded trending projects on Hopscotch and picked up English through their forum. In high school, by browsing quora and corners of the internet, I formed a mesh of 100+ friendly geeks across 24+ countries during high school and organized events such as Chinese-Canadian cultural exchange.

• Music. Examples of what I enjoy: Prelude XIII (Datura), Aphex Twin - T69 collapse, Waterflame - theme of skyworld.

• Media. Living proof: stories of resilience along the mathematical journey. Linus Pauling biography. Shape of a life.

• Lucky charms 🍀 Jensen Huang, Juergen Schmidhuber, Kenneth Stanley, Lisa Su, Fei-Fei Li, Joscha Bach, Jean Piaget, John Conway, Vladimir Nabokov

• Sites. Curius, cyborgism.wiki, quanta magazine.

• Blogs I read. Shtetl optimized, Gwern, Alexey Guzey, Esther is a confused human being, Alex K Chen quora, Yuxi on the Wired, Juan Vera, Yufei Xiao.

• Articles by others: Review of going infinite by Zvi. Take your time by Nicky Case. Idol Words by Scott Alexander.