Eric Cheng

Hinge is a Very Necessary Thing if you’re a single dude in his twenties, especially if you’re the type of person reading this blog and living in a big city.

Frontier models are uniquely dangerous, open models are especially dangerous, and therefore only a handful of enormous companies should be allowed to build them.

Contact forms put a buffer between you and the person trying to reach you.

Hiring an H-1B worker?

The goal: Identify which ethernet jack in a networking closet’s unlabeled patch panel corresponds to the ethernet port in your office or bedroom.

I started reading Why Nations Fail at the beginning of the year when I replaced my 10-year old Kindle.

In theory, you could use ChatGPT to become a better writer.

The actual bug I planted in the compiler would match code in the UNIX “login” command.

3x M710q ThinkCenter Tiny's equipped with an Intel i5-7500T, 8GB RAM, 256GB NVMe and 5TB HDD Post updated on December 03, 2025.

I occasionally come across GitHub repositories that haven’t been updated in months or years.

Politics and ethics aside, the national debate over American aid to Ukraine often implies such aid is very costly to the average American taxpayer.

Stackrooms does not actually exist (yet!).

Last year, I wrote about the index fund investing strategy I would recommend to anybody.

2Fort, Team Fortress 2 (2007).

Writing software completely from scratch is inefficient.

Some of the worst investing mistakes are only subtly wrong, which makes them very dangerous.

\[ \alpha = \frac{1}{Q_p} \] where \( \alpha \) is the quality of the food and \( Q_p \) is the quantity of paper towels in the bathroom.

Sun Tzu Win first, then fight. ☀ The Art of War A solid portfolio is built on three pillars: A US total market index fund An international total market index fund A bond total market index fund This is commonly called a three-fund portfolio.

Remember this?

A busy gym is a motivating environment, but a very busy gym is a frustrating problem.

TL;DR: ericcheng.com was too expensive and I didn’t want a used domain.

The command line can save you a lot of time in college.

This is the third generation of my website.

If you think something is valuable, then you should back it up.

TL;DR: Yes — corrupt emerging markets respond to COVID-19 more intensely.

During the 1968 European Grand Prix at the Nürburgring I started following Formula 1 in high school and am happy to see it gaining popularity in the United States.

As a freshman, I always check dining hall hours online.

Americans are attending college in ever increasing numbers.