Richard Wang
Selected writing
Working notes on AI infrastructure, the research that feeds it, and a couple of things about neither.
“Jazz doesn’t work that way.”
Pat Martino · Open Road, 1993Appearances & talks
Videos, podcasts, and live-stream segments — each one gets a native viewer with chapters and a direct link to the source.
In the news
Coverage of Clad Labs and Chad — the Brainrot IDE — from the launch and Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch.
„Es hat doch auch den Vorteil, daß der Unwissende mehr wagt.“
Franz Kafka · Das SchloßLife, in margins
Shorter pieces — company updates, talks, and excerpts that don't need the essay treatment.
Coming soon
A few longer pieces I'm still drafting.
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Koopman operators: a practical intro for time-series ML
Using DMD + Koopman embeddings to debug chaotic sensor traces in semiconductor fab data.
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Injecting LLM ads: lessons from YC
Vector-DB design, prompt hardening, and why auction-less ad retrieval still converts.
Frequently asked
What were you doing before Clad Labs?
ML research on semiconductor-fab time series at a small startup acquired by Tokyo Electron — with a patent filing and a SEMICON 2025 talk on few-shot fault detection along the way. Before that: CS at Caltech ('23), where I ran point guard for the basketball team. Further back, a national-championship high-school chess team and a Regeneron Scholar award for finding a novel leukemia-therapy compound.
What tech stack runs this site?
Cloudflare Pages + Tailwind CSS + Vite. Static HTML, a tiny PJAX router, and a hero made of pure CSS and SVG — no WebGL, no animation libraries, no chatbot.
Can I reuse your code?
Nope, unless otherwise specified. Some of it's MIT.