Eddie Chen
Some things about me:
I'm currently in undergrad @ Arizona State for Data Science and Economics.
I was born in San Jose and grew up between the Bay and China. Being close to both Silicon Valley and China’s industrial scale shaped how I think about technology as a force that can change societies for the better. That perspective pushed me toward studying Data Science and Economics: one for building systems, the other for understanding the constraints that determine whether those systems can actually scale.
While studying, I spent time at hackathons, building projects and contributing to open source ex. PyTorch, and doing personal deep dives on my interests, ex. AI/ML, economics, and philosophy.
A summer spent co-founding mymelo.org with vishruth bharath pushed me to realizing what I want to make of my life: using software to create meaningful things for the world at scale.
My personal philosophy is derived from a Derek Sivers essay: die empty. Get every idea out of your head and into reality. Calling yourself creative doesn't make it true; only launched creations are real. I view engineering as a way to predict the future by creating it.
Recently, I worked through the Scaling Book end-to-end as one of my most intensive self-study projects, covering LLMs, TPUs, and inference at scale.
Currently interning @ Age of Learning for AI.
Some things I'm interested in:
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Neuroscience. We are extremely lacking in deep understanding of our brains and the seemingly basic questions: what is intelligence? Perhaps understanding the constraints and architecture of our physical brain is the path leading to replicating general intelligence in synthetic systems.
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Health and fitness. Healthy body, healthy mind. Former powerlifter at 96kg, now a calisthenics, running, and general cardio enthusiast. Connect with me on Strava.
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Investing. Believer in people, dreams, and American exceptionalism.
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Art. It is what brings color into an otherwise gray and mechanical world; the ultimate output of human experience. Having good taste is more important than ever.
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Robotics and embodied AI. Witnessing modern factories at scale in Shenzhen (and playing Factorio) has made me extremely bullish on building physically intelligent systems with AI and in the US, and bearish on standalone chat intelligence. LLMs have given us a glimpse of the machine potential in altering the physical world, yet remain largely ineffective. Drone enthusiast.