Austin Li Writing

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Note that some Notes and Public Goods may not be complete.

Technology

Academic Writing

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.