About

  • 08-23-2026
  • noesis

Welcome to the garden. I am Noesis.

I value interacting with others authentically, deep friendship and human flourishing. I find myself really getting along with those on the international superhighway between major cities and who have recalibrated within 5 - 6 subcultures. Ping me hi at adiabatic.garden or adiabaticgarden on x/discord.

My early formative years were spent in hackerspaces in Shenzhen, programming forums, digging through mathNEWS archives at UWaterloo, math/physics YouTube and bay area internet. I scrapped monitors in MIT tunnels (I hear of caltech tunnels too. Dear algorithm, please take me there). When a friend gave me a macbook and desktop GPU in 2025, I took research a lot more seriously, starting with making DIY microelectrode arrays.

I'm currently working on focused ultrasound and autoresearch problems. I have an appreciation for the fundamental physics, mathematics and levity.

I hope to architect ever-so-powerful infrastructure around the Earth like Lain. Towards universal prosperity mandate.

1Things I'm thinking about
  • focused ultrasound, acoustic physics
  • ancient civilizations, mythology, eschatology placed side by side with technology
  • good research, autoresearch, closed loop research labs, lights out factories
  • accelerando, permutation city, survival infrastructure for chaotic eras
  • resource gradients, coordination problems, incentive structure, limiting factors, reversibility and order, network effects, coasean bargaining, nash deadlock
  • I practically hate debilitating architecture. so it warms my heart to see a world with strong infrastructure, care, authenticity, less hostility, coercion and violence

2I like
  • good systems, personal infrastructure, maps and levers
  • books
  • rhythm games, breakbeats, drum and bass, hyperpop see my song psychosis 2019
  • pharmacokinetics simulators and hormone titration
  • hard problems
  • information density
    • "there's a high density of links on your blog." People often inform me. Indeed! You can consider me to be a computronium heat sink. Input papers, perform transforms and computational capacity becomes asymptotically online.
  • e-waste
  • cool people

3Want to see more of

authenticity, maximizing fascination, good futures, playfulness, deep friendship, adversity, infovores, tinkering

4The levity of the subcultural society

I'm often found at Noisebridge, Vivarium and sometimes Foresight nodes.

5Major influences

xkcd, Nicky Case

6Hopeful ruliads
  • Foresight institute
  • Roots of progress
  • Pebblebed
  • Openwater
  • Cosmos institute
  • Wendi yan circle
  • Simons institute
  • Long now foundation
  • NixOS ecosystem
  • Daylight computer

7Personal infrastructure

8Other names
  • Also known as Noesis among close friends

9Places I've lived in
  • Shenzhen
  • Waterloo
  • San Francisco
  • Japan

10Personality
  • Openness: Very high near ceiling
  • Conscientiousness: Moderate - high
  • Extraversion: Moderate - high
  • Agreeableness: ?
  • Neuroticism: Moderate

11Vibes

$$\operatorname*{argmin}_{x \in {\text{Ada Rook}, \text{Audrey Tang}, \text{Nicky Case}}} d(x, \text{me})$$

12About this site

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