russell jiang

data science @ unsw · tutor · amusa

data science student at UNSW, first year. i tutor students across STEM, lift two hard sets at a time, and play clarinet and tenor sax. i built this site to have somewhere to put the rest.

01 background

degree

B. Data Science & Decisions @ UNSW · year 1 of 3

editor

nvim, still clueless

instruments

clarinet · tenor sax · telecaster

on repeat

yorushika · jpop/jrock that survives the practice room

02 interests

• ▸causal inference, and models that can explain themselves
• ▸game theory, and the equilibria people actually play
• ▸teaching as debugging: finding the exact line where understanding diverges
• ▸how good typography quietly does half the work
• ▸small, sharp CLI tools and whatever's in people's dotfiles
• ▸interfaces that load instantly and never animate without a reason
• ▸keyboards with the right amount of click
• ▸chamber music, where no one's hiding in the back row
• ▸transcribing things by ear that have perfectly good sheet music
• ▸zeitgeist, my obsidian vault, and the graph slowly forming between its notes
• ▸keeping a small fleet of ai agents from all agreeing with each other
• ▸french philosophy i'm only half sure i understand
• ▸training like this site is designed: high intensity, low volume, nothing wasted
• ▸a properly constructed bowl of pho