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emma zhou

@emmz.bsky.social

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cofounder of science corp! formerly a software engineer at neuralink and medium. attempting to multiclass: https://bsky.app/profile/neurocat.bsky.social 🐈‍⬛🪴🧠💻✨

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 17h

@maxhodak.bsky.social’s first public talk on consciousness!!

this is very high level in a product sense, but lays out what we’re really going for at science corp, and some of the extremely interesting problems that have nerd sniped us all.

🧪, 🧠📈, 🧠🤖

youtu.be/DI6Hu-DhQwE

Towards Consciousness Engineering

YouTube video by Consciousness Club Tokyo

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 17h

@maxhodak.bsky.social’s first public talk on consciousness!!

this is very high level in a product sense, but lays out what we’re really going for at science corp, and some of the extremely interesting problems that have nerd sniped us all.

🧪, 🧠📈, 🧠🤖

youtu.be/DI6Hu-DhQwE

Towards Consciousness Engineering

YouTube video by Consciousness Club Tokyo

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI proudly declared that Codex had written 80% of the UI for their Agent Builder.

The UI...

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 1d

🥲 honestly deeply relatable, codex

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 5d

concept: limited edition ✨JERRY NO✨ cardigans

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 6d

Meditate noodling over a previous daily

Corrupted forest painting

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 5d

call me basic but I have never had a single feeling that is not captured somewhere in taylor swift’s vast discography

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 6d

yes!! also Father Figure ❤️❤️❤️

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 6d

hmmmm ya I sort of agree, vibes are slightly off

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 6d

which ones did he touch the most? my fav has long been 1989, although honestly life of a showgirl might surpass it

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 6d

😅 I only very recently learned about max martin and how much I’ve loved him for nigh on 2 decades

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 6d

holy shit new tswift is so good I am reeling

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 7d

September 30th October 1st

Young fresh face to Winona Ryder

We're not a writer as Lydia Dietz and Beetlejuice

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 9d

you are so right and I’ve seen it happen with my own eyes 😂

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 9d

it scurries away surprisingly fast once flipped 😂

the same snail, halfway up the side wall of the tank

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 9d

we got a fish tank at work, and now every day somebody has to go rescue this snail

a snail lying upside down on the sandy bottom of a fish tank, awaiting help

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 12d

With abortion rights and reproductive freedom under assault by politicians across the country, California stands firmly by a woman's right to choose.

Our defense of these fundamental rights is unshakeable.

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 10d

I am like a super-shedder for whatever I am currently nerd sniped about. there is no PPE for me.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 14d

Holy SHIT: Phase I/II study for a gene therapy for Huntington's (a truly evil disease) just got to first readout with a 60% slowing of disease progression as measured in total functional capacity at 36 months: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in UK gene therapy trial

Surgical procedure to treat devastating illness slowed progress of disease by 75% in patients after three years

www.theguardian.com

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 14d

🤔 is my bank trying to prevent my rapture

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”

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 17d

new sunset nap spot 💛

a fluffy gray cat mid-yawn on her fluffy new window bed, city of san francisco in the background

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hby's stuff @hby.bsky.social · 22d

#pixelart #artpost

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 22d

like a fluffy football player

emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 23d

*desperately reaching across the aisle* if you simply put aside all of the hacking and focus entirely on the laptop splash screens—