emma zhou

@emmz.bsky.social

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director of BCI research at science corp! formerly a software engineer at neuralink and medium. multiclassing: https://bsky.app/profile/neurocat.bsky.social 🐈‍⬛🪴🧠💻✨

kai standing in the cat room looking towards the door, tail straight up
looking in the door of a glass wall conference room with many cat trees and hedges lining the walls. a white and brown tabby cat peers out from the back corner.
a fluffy gray cat is very interested in her stray doppleganger
claude's thinking text: "Architecting geometry so correct answers naturally emerge"
a fluffy gray cat peers up at the camera. she is very pleased to be filling up one compartment of a large cardboard fitment that formerly packed a tv.
a small stripey gray cat sits calming grooming herself, partially hidden behind a large leafy plant. garlands of iridescent dots and stars drape over her plant and another nearby one, with one large star landing directly on her forehead
an spanish airline menu with a section titled “platos principales” (which I think actually means “main courses”)
a tiny gray and white tabby kitten stands on her hind legs, and behind her a gray and black tabby kitten screeches to a halt
a little gray cat standing inside a half-packed suitcase stares accusingly at the camera
screenshot of macos menu bar with text “calmly typing a face emoji” shown between cursor, tailscale, and caffeine app icons
a fluffy gray cat with all of her fluffy limbs in a haphazard pile
a stripey gray cat staring directly at the camera from atop a tall chair, with the san francisco skyline behind her
a stripey gray cat half a second after jumping onto the bed, already meowing
me trying to wish happy birthday to claude code, largely unsuccessfully.
a (real!) screenshot from a claude thinking summary this morning: “Grappling with humanity’s limited utility.”
a fluffy gray cat, flopped on her back, looks sternly up at the camera (upside down)
alex norris oh no webcomic
a stripey gray cat perched warily on top of a cat6 cable box that says “cat.” on the side
daytona crash where almost every car is taken out (everyone was, somehow, fine!)
a dog patiently waiting in front of an oven
man holding US flag walking through a gas cloud near the broadview facility in chicago
part of a laptop screen showing an explanation of asymmetric regularization (the “fuzzy” manifold), juxtaposed with a fuzzy gray cat
Figure 1: Left: a description of the linebreaking task. Center: example feature families we study. Right: a highlight of the geometry of representations and computations.
a commercial van that says FIRE WATER SMOKE MOLD
same gray cat stares intently the spinning light on the left wheel of the dj deck
a fluffy gray cat contemplatively bats at a shiny new years decoration
woman (me) holding man (my favorite codebase) and pointing (claude code) meme
a little stripey gray cat is a perfect loaf in a cardboard tunnel under the bed
a photobooth picture of four people looking off into the middle distance, in four totally different directions
anisota harvest’s “most interacted”. jerry’s face is the largest.
a fluffy gray cat is lying half upside down, trying to touch every inch of her body to a heating pad
a screenshot of a (real) talk happening today in the society for neuroscience conference app: “albert and ellen grass lecture: making sense of touch”, with “grass” and “touch” highlighted
screenshot from history section of wikipedia page “Throw Shade” (which in itself is amazing): The term can be found in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814). Young Edmund Bertram is displeased with a dinner guest's disparagement of the uncle who took her in: "With such warm feelings and lively spirits it must be difficult to do justice to her affection for Mrs. Crawford, without throwing a shade on the Admiral."
fluffy gray cat has colonized a towel drawer
wednesday: someone will die enid: of fun!
a little gray cat sleepily rests her head on a large bag of lays chips
the same snail, halfway up the side wall of the tank
a snail lying upside down on the sandy bottom of a fish tank, awaiting help
a voicemail I got this morning that begins, “Hello, this message is for Emma zoo This is Jesus prevention department calling to verify some activity in that account”
a fluffy gray cat mid-yawn on her fluffy new window bed, city of san francisco in the background
a fluffy gray cat stares intently at a furry pink fish toy, 500ms before attack
a plant with large dark green and maroon leaves looks like it is trying to move out of its planter
a bare tree against a blue sky, with pine cones hanging off some branches in a manner suggestive of dendritic spines on a neuron
a fluffy gray cat pokes her head out of a hole in a paper bag (that she tore herself!) while a stripey gray cat looks on behind her.
a claude opus 4.1 chat with extended thinking and deep research turned on, where I ask “is there a seahorse emoji” and am informed this request violates anthropic’s usage policy
my fluffy gray cat sitting in front of my laptop, looking like she’s ready for the first day of school
thermal image of a cat. eyes are bright, nose is dark. there are also a couple of tiny footprints near her feet where she slightly warmed up the floor!
top down view of a latte where the foam pattern looks like a brain
a fluffy gray cat sphinxed on the back of a couch, holding a knotted blue hair tie with her front paw. the knot is slightly frayed from when she stole it directly off my wrist 🤦‍♀️
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” Alan Bennett, The History Boys
2 books meme: “how much code you write when” big book: “BCI is not working” small book: “BCI is working”
a fluffy gray cat reclines against a sparkly pink pillow, looking very glamorous
a mountain in iceland with its top covered in a cloud. it is 11:30pm, but still very bright out.
people marching to city hall, two men wearing american flag capes in the foreground
two gray cats stare intently into an open treat bag, from which they have already extracted most treats, using their little paws and teamwork
fluffy gray cat loafs on an empty cardboard tray and looks very imperious
a wall of mysterious framed images, with a monitor in front showing a blue grid
apple developer email explaining that they’re loosening their rules around in-app payments in accordance with what the judge said
(spoilers for westworld?) william talking to a deteriorating james delos in the apartment he keeps getting reset in
mad queen daenerys, with the words “narrative violation” in large red text next to her