Anson Chu

Writing

AI

• 2016–2026 Reinforcement Learning a decade of chasing the dream path — chapters, and 28 lessons on RL × LLMs
• 2023 Neural Networks: Zero to Hero 9 posts — course notes and by-hand backprop derivations, written on parental leave

Leadership

• 2023 How to hire and build a great team be in hiring mode or not — specs, pipelines, and closing, from building the Numerai team
• 2020 Anson API communication as an API spec — a numerai friday-night talk, slides included
• 2019 Agile: A Software Engineering Discipline software engineering history for a team of mathematicians — Turing to the Manifesto
• 2018 Executing with OKRs the pitch that became how the company runs

Building

• 2023 Numerai Tutorial Notebooks rewriting Numerai's onboarding — three notebooks and the Model Uploads platform
• 2022 Burning Man Art Project — The Heads nine talking heads on the playa — solar power, trenching, debugging at night
• 2015 Uber Geolocation with Wifi — my first patent indoors with bad GPS but good wifi — from the Uber Maps days, granted 2023