I grew up in Ho Chi Minh City and Portland. I believe we can uncover how intelligence fundamentally works in this lifetime, replicate it at scale, and make labor no longer the bottleneck to human progress. Frankly, that means AI and robots. I deem this the One Piece in real life.
I owe my education and endless curiosity/inquiry to Naval Ravikant, David Deutsch, and Paul Graham, and Claude. I graduated from David Douglas High School and currently learning Computer Science at Stanford University with the support of Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Seattle Foundation and Elks Foundation. My curiosity extends beyond Computer Science (computation, AI architecture, diffusion models, distributed systems, reinforcement learning) to variational principles, statistical physics, information theory, evolution, neuroscience, adaptive systems, game theory, mechanism design, "generative" economics, epistemology, and power laws.
I love to read, conjecture, sightsee, prototype, and exercise (lift, and run)
More than anything, I love meeting thoughtful people. Reach out!
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