About

About Me

Hi, hey, hello! I’m Andrew Zuckerman. Some people call me Zuck!

I recently graduated Harvard and studied CS. I’m not very good at About Me’s, so instead here’s a short list of bullet points about my time in between school:

• I took 3 gap years throughout my college journey…
  • In the first one before freshman year, I interned at Hive (which is where I work today 7 years later!), farmed in California with WWOOF, and traveled through SE Asia
    • Oooh, and I started a YouTube channel called Zuck That back then making short explanatory films
  • In the two years I took off before senior year, I served as Executive Director of a research nonprofit called Qualia Research Institute
    • I was really interested in consciousness and psychedelic research back then
    • I designed this psychophysics research software based on Andrés Goméz Emilsson’s pioneering psychedelic cryptography work
    • I loved Distill.pub and their amazing online science publishing style for ML interpretability research, so I helped convert the QRI website to handle Distill for R Markdown publishing
      • Here are two pieces from that era that I think are really great:
      • 1. Experientialist Theories of Well-Being
      • 2. Guide to Writing Rigorous Reports of Exotic States of Consciousness
      • And here’s one that I think is really important:
      • 3. Short Version: Review of Log Scales, Long Version: Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain
  • I also had Long Covid during those two years (which was one of the most incredibly challenging things I’ve experienced). Fortunately, I’m all better now, though it was a long journey to get back to good mental and physical health. Very happy to connect and talk with anyone experiencing Long Covid / post-viral illness
• Besides that, my favorite class at college was called Free Will, Responsibility, and Law. I took that with Professor Joshua Greene
• Here is a page of Things I like from back in 2017
• While these pages were not updated in the last couple years, at this link, you’ll find lists of people whose blogs I liked and who I found interesting

If you’d like to get in contact with me or hire me for independent projects or consulting, email: azuckerman at college dot harvard dot edu 🦭