hello! my name is yuchen and i wear many shoes or sometimes none
interests
career
natural language processing, cryptography, distributed systems, machine learning, complexity theory, game theory
societal
effective altruism, mountain rescue, teaching, feminism + lgbtq
personal
trad climbing, general aviation, puzzle hunts, swiftwater canyons, pottery, scuba, lindy hop, {uni/bi/motor}cycles, photography, urbex, origami, hitchhiking, voice/guitar/piano, pranks/hacks, foreign languages, novels/film/music
communities
you may know me from
google (search/quality/webanswers), palantir (gotham/raven), caltech (γδβγ, dei), bamru
or possibly
mit mystery hunt (manic sages, ✈✈✈galactic trendsetters✈✈✈, caltech puzzle club), caltech glee club, sunnyvale pottery studio, wednesday night hop, world cube association, moontribe, glassell junior school, pearland isd
contact
email + pgp, keybase, github, tumblr, facebook, couchsurfing, trustroots