Welcome to yzchen.space.
Here you’ll find notes, ideas, and small experiments.
“The methods that rely on massive computation and simple general principles have consistently outperformed those that attempt to encode human knowledge or clever shortcuts.” — Rich Sutton, The Bitter Lesson (2019)
“The antifragile loves randomness and uncertainty, which also means—crucially—a love of errors, a certain class of errors.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile (2012)
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.” — Richard Feynman (blackboard note, 1988)