Eric Tao
I build full-stack applications and design the interfaces that go with them. This is where I write up what I am working on and what I learn along the way.
Writing
- Thoughts — Will Our Next Generation Be Made of Flesh or Iron?A reflection on AI, robotics, and what it means for humanity's future when machines begin to replace not just our work, but our purpose.
- Thoughts — Who Gets to Be Nerdy?A reflection on racial stereotypes, learning, and why curiosity belongs to a generation rather than a nationality.
- Math — Cauchy's functional equations: four rules that pin down a functionThe four classic forms of Cauchy's functional equations — midpoint, additive, logarithmic, exponential — and how each operational property locks in the shape of the function.
- Baymax — RFID shape sensing for soft robotsMy research idea for a Baymax-like air-based soft robot that senses its own shape change with passive RFID tags — and the open question of whether a dense RF array can reconstruct deformation, not just read tags.
- Post normalizationsMy recent work on helping myself to having the habit on keeping blogs