James Fang @polymath_james

21 | ML & Fullstack Engineer for Chip Design | UIUC CS '23, Master's '25 | Prev built https://t.co/eZBcXM8F7r , https://t.co/LsxfKgYYxt jamesfang.dev Joined January 2024

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James Fang @polymath_james

4 hours ago

On my next trip to Europe, I would really like to hit up some of the greatest math cities in the world - Göttingen, Basel, Vienna, Budapest, Lviv, where else have I been missing?

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James Fang @polymath_james

5 hours ago

Wondering if defense startups are gonna be called war startups once we have a Department of War

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Writing clean code has saved my ass more than a few times. For example, there was once when unsaved changes on a machine that I was working on were accidentally overwritten, I only lost at most a couple hundred lines of code and recovered within 30-60 minutes.

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James Fang @polymath_james

8 hours ago

VC currently has the classic competing quantity vs. quality philosophies. The quantity approach usually works for angel, preseed or seed. Usually the partner is betting on a thesis and not necessary the founders themselves. $1M that didn’t return becomes a rounding error. They…

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James Fang @polymath_james

17 hours ago

I’m under the conviction effort does pay off. Just not necessarily always in a linear fashion.

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James Fang @polymath_james

2 days ago

It's pretty sad to see the cultural hollow-out of the startup world from 5-10 years ago. Once upon a time, people had backstories to startups, like "my friend Anna survived ovarian cancer, and I'm building early diagnosis tools". These stories represented human conviction.

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James Fang @polymath_james

3 days ago

IMO teams are USA’s best example of cultural appropriation “Our Chinese are better than your Chinese” Shoutout to other fellas who made IChO, IPhO, and IOI

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James Fang @polymath_james

4 days ago

Solo travel absolutely is a rite of passage of early adulthood When I was 19, I was so delighted when a lovely Slovak girl picked a random book off the bookshelf at a bar and gave me this math olympiad prep manual It was so special as a kid who did AIME and got close to USAMO

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James Fang @polymath_james

4 days ago

as an engineer, there are few moments that make me more angry than having an issue that I would then find on a Github discussion, or having to open the issue myself because the people building the library screwed up

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James Fang @polymath_james

5 days ago

omio is the openrouter for trains in europe

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James Fang @polymath_james

5 days ago

Europe really does not seem to act like it's a continent double the population of USA The only countries with any innovative dynamism are Switzerland and maybe Sweden, Estonia and Poland I'm speaking from my experience having lived in Switzerland as an exchange student