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Jun 12, 2019

The pitfalls of automating your vacuum cleaner

“I’m retiring my robovac.” Over the course of a week, I announced this to numerous people, most of whom had the same reaction of surprise and pity. “You can’t get rid of it! How do you think it will feel?” said one of my less mentally sound friends. “Wait, you…

Life Lessons

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The pitfalls of automating your vacuum cleaner
The pitfalls of automating your vacuum cleaner
Life Lessons

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May 31, 2019

The bets we make

Many years ago, I made a questionable bet. One afternoon, after school, a group of friends and I were huddled in my room, working on a project. Like every other group of kids gathered under the pretense of doing something productive, not much was getting done. As we were talked…

Life Lessons

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Life Lessons

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Jan 26, 2019

Data-driven off a cliff: Rekindling a love for the unknown and immeasurable

I became interested in experimental psychology after reading a book on how people pursue happiness. Back then, I was fascinated by how researchers could take this completely abstract concept that existed in people’s heads, and not only measure it, but manipulate it, by tweaking the environments their research subjects were…

Startup

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Startup

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Sep 7, 2018

Don’t Validate Solutions, Disconfirm Needs

My favorite professor in graduate school once said (I’m paraphrasing): “Whenever you analyze data and are happy with the results, dig deeper until you’re no longer happy — then you’re probably actually right”. Coming from this intellectual tradition, the number of people who walk around every day, happy with their…

Startup

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Startup

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Apr 5, 2017

F.R.I.S.K.I.E.S (ProtoHackNYC, 1st place)

N.B.: Anyi Sun, Jeremy Watssman and I took part in ProtoHack on April Fool’s 2017. The theme was “Evil Genius Ideas”. This was our winning idea. Our initial research revealed that the vast majority of super-villains fail at global domination because of their hired help. 0% of comic book henchmen…

Robotics

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F.R.I.S.K.I.E.S (ProtoHackNYC, 1st place)
F.R.I.S.K.I.E.S (ProtoHackNYC, 1st place)
Robotics

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