Hi there. This is Youwen. I study abstract nonsense and hack on computers at UC Berkeley. Welcome to my corner of the World Wide Web.
I help run functor.systems, a small computing community, and tinker with MIT OpenCompute ⁂ I care about free software. I developed functorOS, an experimental NixOS-based Linux distribution ⁂ I like hacking, and hackathons. I helped organize the 2026 SB Hacks, the headliner hackathon of UC Santa Barbara, and was briefly its Director of Development ⁂ Previously, I was at UC Santa Barbara. I also spent a semester in the CS department at Tsinghua University ⁂ See about for more about myself, or now for what I’m up to right now. Or explore the other pages on this website □
Discovery is a child’s privilege. I mean the small child, the child who is not afraid to be wrong, to look silly, to not be serious, and to act differently from everyone else. He is also not afraid that the things he is interested in are in bad taste or turn out to be different from his expectations, from what they should be, or rather he is not afraid of what they actually are. He ignores the silent and flawless consensus that is part of the air we breathe—the consensus of all the people who are, or are reputed to be, reasonable.
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Consider , the set of all languages decidable by LARPing. Consider the GPT-6 Astra oracle . We posit that , the languages decidable by LARPing equipped with the Astra oracle, is equal to the universal set . That is, there is no limit to the larp.