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Taming a Different Beast: What Sets Venture Capital Apart

I work at a global investment firm whose heritage—and heart—lies in private equity.

Jun 24 • 

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Appendix: My Manager Readme

As summarized by ChatGPT. FWIW, I think the ChatGPT version is better. Original version here https://managerreadme.com/readme/zhl.

Jun 23 • 

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Preface

Why I Wrote The Final Commit and Why I Chose to Publish It

Jun 22 • 

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Chapter 1 Introduction

My Final Commit at MAI: An Extraordinary Journey

Jun 21 • 

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Long Chinese, not long China?

Post COVID-19, I remained optimistic about China, and I would often say to my friends—perhaps to their mild annoyance—that I was "long Chinese, not long…

Jun 21 • 

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When Bias Isn't a Blemish: Understanding Its Role in AI

In foundational statistics, we're often taught to seek out unbiased estimators—tools whose average predicted value perfectly aligns with the true…

Jun 20 • 

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2 things I find whacky about LLMs (coming from a statistical learning background)

Double Descent

Jun 19 • 

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Ideas in Data, that I like

Not long ago, there were murmurings that the modern data stack (MDS) was dead.

Jun 1 • 

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May 2025

What I found interesting at ICLR 2025

ICLR 2025 was held in Singapore from 24 Apr to 28 Apr 2025

May 19 • 

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March 2025

Variational inference and the Free energy principle

Variational inference

Mar 8 • 

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The 2x2 of why VCs invest, even in a bubble.

One of the more fascinating aspects of my role is that I sit on both sides of the venture capital table.

Mar 7 • 

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January 2025

What I found interesting at NeurIPS 2024

NeurIPS 2024 was held in Vancouver from Dec 10 to Dec 15 2024

Jan 9 • 

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