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things built, played, and written about.

Hoist, on LinkedIn

The LinkedIn post announcing Hoist, mirrored here: what the proxy does, the live turn savings on τ²-bench retail and airline, and where it fits next to LLMCompiler and TraceCompiler.

hoist: Read Ahead of Your Agent

An MCP proxy that learns which reads an agent makes next and makes them for it, in the same tool result, so the agent needs fewer LLM turns.

StatusBar: Is It Down, or Is It Me?

Why I built a macOS menu bar app to watch the status pages I depend on, and the CLI, prompt glyph, and webhooks that grew around it.

What Is Running Behind This Page

Six simulations render the backgrounds on this site: Conway's Life, summed sine waves, a simulated-annealing graph search, an FM synthesizer, A*, and a finite-difference PDE solver. What each one computes and what the controls do.

Musiio Acquired by SoundCloud

SoundCloud acquired Musiio, the Singapore music-AI company founded out of the same Entrepreneur First cohort as Archanan. I was in the office the day it was signed.

Supercomputing Shouldn't Be Rocket Science

A piece for Asian Scientist arguing that the hard part of supercomputing is not the computing but the gap between a working laptop simulation and code that survives at scale.

Archanan in Ho Chi Minh City

Opening an Archanan engineering office at The Hive in Thảo Điền, five months after the EF investor day, and flying down every month until covid closed the borders.

Archanan at EF Singapore Investor Day

The three-minute Archanan pitch that closed Entrepreneur First's third Singapore cohort, arguing that access to a supercomputer is a developer tooling problem.

Moving to Singapore

Leaving for Singapore on 12 January 2018 for Entrepreneur First's third cohort, on the recommendation of two friends: one who had already been through it, and one who came with me.

Grand Central Tech

Scala Computing got into the Grand Central Tech accelerator in August 2017 and moved from the CEWIT office to 335 Madison Avenue, going from seven people to fifteen.

Leaving the PhD

Leaving the computational applied mathematics PhD at Stony Brook in May 2017, a year after starting a company out of my advisor's push to aim graph theory at job scheduling.

Wavelet Talk at IACS

Giving a talk on the wavelet compression search at Stony Brook's Institute for Advanced Computational Science, whose machines had been running it.

InfiniCortex

Stony Brook was one of four subnets on InfiniCortex, A*STAR's InfiniBand fabric stretched around the planet. I went to SC16 in Salt Lake City on an IACS travel award for the unveiling of our end of it.

The Future of Sound

The Stony Brook Press on the intelligent synthesizers I was building as an undergraduate: pitch-tracking bass synthesis and convolution reverb.