Alex Wu
I creatively build ML systems to solve unorthodox problems. Recent NYU CS + Data Science grad.
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PsychohistoryML
ResearchExploratory ML analysis of 372 historical polities from the Seshat Global History Databank. Random Forest (CV AUC 0.66) finds that the complexity-duration relationship reverses by era.
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Suzerain
AI Governance AnalysisAnalyzes your Claude Code logs to reveal how you govern AI assistants. Bash acceptance rate is the key signal. Everything else is rubber-stamped. Classifies you into one of 6 archetypes based on sophistication × caution.
View Project →Beyond Translation
Computational PhilologySentence embeddings reveal translator fingerprints across 5 English translations of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. Hollingdale sits at the semantic centroid; Zimmern drifts furthest from the German.
View Project →McCarthyGPT
BetaReverse-engineered Cormac McCarthy's prose style. 81% monosyllables create the "drumbeat" rhythm. Trained a 4.8M parameter character-level GPT on Blood Meridian to write like him.
View Project →Quick Ships
Stuff I built fast because I wanted it to exist.
East2West
NYC→SF trip planner. Scrapes Google Flights and Skiplagged for cheap flights, scouts ML/AI hackathons and tech events. Zero API keys.
View on GitHub →NYC MTA Live Map
Real-time subway positions on an interactive map. Decodes MTA's GTFS-RT protobuf feeds. Got tired of wondering where the L train was, so I built this.
View on GitHub →Contact
Best way to reach me: amadeuswoo@proton.me