In addition to the below, I also maintain a Substack publication Collection A.
Note that some Notes and Public Goods may not be complete.
Technology
Academic Writing
Quantum variational algorithms for NP-hard approximations
March 24, 2023
My senior thesis, where I design and implement a quantum variational algorithm for finding approximate solutions to the Max Bisection problem.
Measurement of the composite muon lifetime, mass, and determination of the Fermi coupling constant
December 7, 2022
High fidelity measurements of the muon lifetime and mass. Third experiment for Physics 191, Advanced Laboratory.
Slow group velocity and nonlinear optical effects in a coherently driven hot rubidium gas
November 22, 2022
Characterization of eight hyperfine transitions of rubidium to demonstrate reduced group velocity of light. Second experiment for Physics 191, Advanced Laboratory.
Characterization of pure and alloy metal superconductors
October 11, 2022
Experimental classification of eleven material samples as type I, type II, or non-superconducting. First experiment for Physics 191, Advanced Laboratory.
Digital wire analyzer of mechanical tension, electrical continuity, and isolation
October 1, 2022
High energy physics and electrical engineering research paper, published in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
Computational complexity characterization of protecting elections from bribery
May 22, 2022
Complexity of protecting approval voting elections and simulations. Final project for CS 238, Optimized Democracy.
Notes and Public Goods
Gov 1280: Government and Politics of China
April 26, 2023
Contemporary Chinese politics and social change.
Econ 1800: Economics of Cities
April 25, 2023
Why cities exist, what roles cities play in the economy, and what determines the rise and fall of cities.
Gov 1790: American Foreign Policy
December 12, 2022
American grand strategy, bureaucratic politics, public opinion, anti-Americanism, terrorism, and nuclear weapons.
CS 51: Abstraction and Design in Computation
May 1, 2022
Fundamental concepts in the design of computer programs; functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming.
CS 181: Machine Learning
April 21, 2022
Supervised and unsupervised learning, ensemble methods and boosting, neural networks, inference methods, computational learning theory.
CS 238: Optimized Democracy
April 13, 2022
Graduate-level economics and computation class on topics at the intersection of social choice theory, theoretical computer science, and multi-agent systems.
8.370: Quantum Computation
December 8, 2021
Graduate-level class on quantum computation taught by Peter Shor.
CS 136: Economics and Computation
November 22, 2021
Behavioral game theory, peer production, prediction markets, auctions and mechanisms, privacy and security, matching and allocation problems.
Physics 143b: Quantum Mechanics II
April 1, 2021
The second semester of Physics 143, quantum mechanics. Path integrals, time-dependent perturbation theory, scattering theory, relativistic mechanics, quantum information.
6.840: Theory of Computation
December 1, 2020
Graduate-level class discussing computability, complexity, and the theory of computation.