hey! i'm agniv. i study algebra/systems at stanford, bike a bit, and write poetry. my favorite comic is still calvin and hobbes. one of my fundamental beliefs is that most true things are beautiful.
my curius contains the things that i want to come back to.
“I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta.”
Leo snorted. “What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.”
Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
recently / now.
I live in SF at the northernmost point.
I am slowly reading through Automata Studies and rereading Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
Recently, I made a polymarket clone with friends for TreeHacks 2026. I coded a simple operating system for the baremetal Raspberry Pi Zero in a mix of Haskell, C, and Assembly. I self-studied Online Algorithms.
I enjoy working with other people and want to do it more often. If any of these are interesting to you, I would love to cook with you.
past lives.
I have lived in Seattle WA, Palo Alto CA, Park City UT, Columbus OH, Hsinchu TW, and Oxford UK. I believe in psychogeography and I am blessed to have gotten to live so many places.
I have studied & worked on AI for Physics, AI for Math, Computational Algebraic Number Theory, Combinatorics, and Programming Languages. I hosted a Socratica node called [orchard] in Oxford and ran around barefoot in Cambridge teaching my friends Model Theory.
I am still a happy kid on the inside, and you should never forget it.
- seattle. xetdata. where i first started to understand rust and how big ML was going to be.
- ohio. ross. where i first started to enjoy math.
- san francisco. high school. k-ary trees. mit primes. physics ai for a bit. lots of existentialism.
- oxford. math+tcs. ran a coworking group for a year, hosted demo days for europeans. studied computational algebraic number theory under Prof. Mahsa.
- utah. IAS hosted a combinatorics learning REU. got more into running and the entropy method.
- palo alto. first intern at axiommath. these models will solve big problems. happy to have helped.
- alameda. software intern at science. where magic happens.
friends.
I am survived by Anish, Yudhister, Kushal, Logan, Rivka, Malaika, Xi Da, Mason, Hannah (1), Hannah (2), Mars, Ritik, Leo, & Michael. I must give mention to Jiwu, for I wouldn't be here without him.
When I say survived by, I mean that these are the people that I live for. You all make me willing to climb mountains.
favorites.
I particularly love reading combinatorics (discrete, probabilistic, analytic, algebraic, infinitary, entropic).
I love unsweetened soy milk and orange juice. I love simple poetry and imagistic poems, and letters.
I loved reading Ready Player One, Dune, The Martian, & Piranesi. I love reading Joan Didion. I loved watching The Green Knight, Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, and Neon Genesis Evangelion. I believe Fullmetal Alchemist to be one of the greatest works of the 21st century.
I love carrying my friends.
ending thoughts.
Minimizing the friction between a thought and expanding it is good. You should do spontaneous things, even (especially!) if they will be mediocre, because great things start slowly. I believe AI converts previously slow systems into tactile ones, and this is fun, but make sure to check yourself endlessly. Words are cheap and execution matters.
I believe there are 2 forms of beauty. The timeless kind, that of nature, the world around us, uncaring yet beautiful. Mathematics is timeless. The second form of beauty is that of the human project. Computer systems are part of the human project.
I will not live forever. But to increase the fruit for which others get to eat is a worthwhile goal in and of itself.
I am still terrified of going blind for I love to see the stars, sunsets, and my friends. I love citrus and eat the rind with a smile.
contact.
you can email me about my pasts.
- professionally, email me at
agniv at stanford dot edu - conversationally, email me at
agni dot spare at gmail dot com