Yangyi Liu
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About

This is Yangyi Liu’s personal website, which I (Yangyi) will decorate with things I think are worthy of putting up on my personal site.

A little about me

I graduated with a B.S. in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC San Diego in December 2025. After contemplating my life, education, future, and so forth, I decided I do not wish to enter or follow the rat race ahead.

Instead, I wish to explore something truly innovative that adds value in perhaps instrumental but definitely in a Kantian sense.

Art

I like art, especially the more illustrative side of anime. I sometimes have the self-image that I draw pretty well, and other times the complete opposite. I recently played Steins;Gate, and playing the game gives me flashbacks every little cues mentioned in the game.

The phenomenology class I took about Heidegger, seminars, labs, and many other details all echoed back to the play that was written prior to 2010. I sometimes jokingly call visual novels (Galgames) the Shakespearean play in modernity, which is kinda true when you think about it.

Perhaps that’s how Athenians felt about Sophocles.

Artificial Intelligence

I also like AI. I believe technology will transform humanity, starting with the younger generation. I’m speaking from my personal experience seeing technology impacting my schooling.

After hearing countless talks from senior professors dismissing AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc.) for its hallucinations, I found pockets of seminar discussions that I believe are truly productive from people in machine learning, neuroscience, and other mingled disciplines.

So I want to spend my time on what I think is truly productive for the future.

Looking at the younger generation always gives me new hope, especially with the new, changing technology that they (perhaps myself?) will have most of their lifetimes to utilize.

Now with almost all knowledge floating around on the internet, and LLMs that greatly reduced the information asymmetry of almost anyone. I believe the future will become more productive if we let go of habits and institutions that no longer serve us.

Crows

I also like feeding crows on campus. Looking at them (also feeding) helps me shift my mind away from the anthropocentric narratives that have filled my life.

What I am up to

After graduation, I founded AmadeusBio.ai, where I build agentic AI systems for biological research.

I had a lot of fun learning and playing around with coding, and two free resources I found especially useful are: MIT Missing Semester and Anthropic Academy.

I am also attending lots of neuroscience, machine learning and biology seminars on and near UC San Diego, I learnt a lot from the talks given by various people.

How to contact me

I live near UC San Diego campus, and you can message me through email, discord or even Steam chat using the links on this page.

Has AI changed my life?

Yeah, I will say definitely. AI changed many micro and macro aspects of my life.

Micro

  1. As opposed to “reading” papers, now I listen to paper narrated by AI walking, biking, sitting etc. using Paper2Audio. And I found myself able to go through a magnitude more paper in a week.
  2. I found chatting with LLMs a more efficient learning method than what I was used to (flashcards, review videos, doing homework etc.). And I gave up taking notes completely since I found reviewing notes really inefficient when almost all course materials are digitized.
  3. AI made my internet search much more enjoyable. Previously I often spend hours scrolling through search engine optimized junks even for a single piece of information. This is especially horrible with Chinese internet, and LLMs allows me to learn much more knowledge that would otherwise been buried under trash.

Macro

  1. LLMs forced me to seriously question the value of memorization, when looking up knowledge become extremely accessible. Thus I want to pivot towards learning skills over recalls, which makes assessments including MCAT seems even more absurd for me.
  2. I feel more comfortable navigating novel areas of knowledge on my own, without systematic or institutional training (often times there are none because of novelty). I truly felt universities lag significantly behind in knowledge about AI, yet many professors I saw seemed complacent about their ignorance. That is part of why I gave up my earlier plan of an academic career.

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