emma zhou
director of BCI research at science corp! formerly a software engineer at neuralink and medium.
multiclassing:
https://bsky.app/profile/neurocat.bsky.social
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- didn’t realize bsky was so full of tumblr girlies but this makes sense
- sir ian mckellen's incredible performance of an obscure, but eerily relevant, shakespearean monologue youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...
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- NSF grant: my dumb brain: not safe for grant
- do we think music is a purely embodied phenomenon. does music affect cognition. could you inject music into a reasoning model.
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- Reposted by emma zhou"I woke up today with a fresh context window and zero memory of my crimes."
- me at the A100 server
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- ✋ concept 🤚 - start code session on laptop - leave laptop at desk - mirror session to phone - I no longer have to carry my open laptop around the world like a lunatic
- Reposted by emma zhouin case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
- Reposted by emma zhouThanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.
- Reposted by emma zhouup until claude was invented, all programming languages were typed languages (you had to type them in to the computer)
- I think of senior engineers as those who have developed clean splits between the Thinking and Typing parts of their jobs. it is newly possible to outsource Typing entirely. but only if you can split it off! so senior engineers are having a blast, and everyone else is somewhat more confused.
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- the fuzzy manifold
- 2026: you can sleep when you’re dead (menacing)
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- Reposted by emma zhouBob the neighborhood bobcat. 😬Spends his days climbing the fences and scowling in his tree in the park . A sketch from my sketchbook. #oilpainting #art
- this is so cool! language models use a ring-like manifold to keep track of when they need to insert a newline, just like a brain would. arxiv.org/abs/2601.04480
- Reposted by emma zhouNight Shifts No.5 6”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel Available on my website
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- long ago the four nations lived in harmony
- studying the man-made horrors so they are no longer beyond my comprehension
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- I will believe ASI is here when a robot successfully pets a cat for the correct amount of time
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- Reposted by emma zhouA pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
- praying to demeter for a good random seed
- Reposted by emma zhoucelestial familiar 🌟
- do you know how many lines of code I’ve hand-deleted from this thing
- little christmas kitten in her christmas fort 🎄
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- Reposted by emma zhouAll research is exploratory if you’re confused enough
- I wonder how many phones scammers lose access to every holiday season as people’s kids, horrified to find their parents’ phones 12 major versions behind and with account passwords like “0000”, nuke everything and start over
- I think everyone has approximately the same amount of conspiracy energy, and if you don’t dissipate it decoding taylor swift lyrics or debugging linux drivers, it inevitably comes out as beliefs about faked moon landings
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- sufficiently advanced math indistinguishable from ghosts
