Anthony Zhou

Some things about me:

• Grew up in Southlake, TX
• Started coding at age 11
• Went to Columbia for undergrad
• Worked on loneliness, air pollution, climate model code translation, and a chat app that plants trees
• Currently working as a forward deployed engineer at Palantir

Find me online:

• Substack
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Writing:

• Living in a designed world
• The invisible hand theorem
• What toothbrushing tells us about foundation models for economics
• My guide to Tokyo
• Improving air quality at the community level
• On logical consistency
• Managing time vs. managing attention
• Understanding blockchain from a distributed computing perspective
• Long walks at the airport
• Abstraction and problem solving
• Thoughts on futarchy
• Writing reliable software in a service-oriented architecture
• The third bowl: Building online communities centered around connection
• Exploration and exploitation: Finding consistency across business, personality, and food
• My favorite books of 2020
• The two sides of Liupanshui
• Why you shouldn't use the AWS SDK in your front-end
• How I built a semi-automated matching system for Big & Mini
• How to be productive this summer
• What does media sensationalism say about our ability to fight pandemics?
• Get involved: Open source technology fighting COVID-19
• My attempt at on-device machine learning
• Why sustainability makes economic sense
• My dealings with museum security in Florence
• Can we achieve symbiosis with machines? Neuralink and Facebook try to answer the question.
• The many definitions of intelligence
• Mood and productivity, Pt. 1: Does happiness live up to the hype?
• Version management with a JavaScript service worker
• Oatmeal and emergence: How a whole can be greater than the sum of its parts
• How to download an image as a PDF using jsPDF
• How to scan a barcode with Flutter
• How to make toast
• Communication between trees
• Concrete