Yi Hein

Fifth year medical student at UCL. Interested in neurosurgery, ML architecture research and AGI.

Research

• Continual Learning Through Introspection: Training Language Models to Generate Transferable Self-Knowledge via Reinforcement Learning

Projects

• EpicGym

  A local recreation of the Epic EHR interface as a deterministic reinforcement-learning environment, with synthetic charts, scored workflow tasks and Gymnasium and computer-use adapters.

• Research Taste Lab

  200 exercises for practicing AI research judgment, with dated evidence, staged hints, and accessible or research-literate explanations.

Writing

• Bunshin: agent differentiation and high bandwidth communicationMay 18, 2026
• Paths to LeverageMay 18, 2026
• Mapping opportunities in the Hyperspeed TimescaleMarch 9, 2026
• On Time Complexity in Technological RevolutionsMarch 8, 2026
• Betting on a healthier humanitySeptember 26, 2025
• Singapore, the platform economy, the meta-capitalist.August 30, 2023
• A world where all workers are owners adjusted by their magnitude of contributionJuly 27, 2023
• Subclonal capitalism, recursive capitalism - the answer to inequalityJuly 6, 2023
• There is no deterministic secret sauceJune 19, 2023
• Genuinity — a long lost virtueJune 19, 2023
• Culture and alignmentJune 19, 2023
• Compassion by pure resultsApril 15, 2023
• NMDA receptors: State management system in the brainMarch 24, 2023
• Gradient descent of Evolution: potential for genetic teleportationMarch 2, 2023
• Pharmacology is API to the human body — an its terribly designedFebruary 2, 2023
• Insights into CPU allocation in humans via compensatory plasticityJanuary 19, 2023
• Neuronal myelination, good swimming technique and it’s relation to capital efficiencyJanuary 5, 2023
• Learning to learn — a means to escape domain stickinessJanuary 5, 2023
• God is decentralisedJanuary 5, 2023
• ChatGPT and the power of knowledge drillingDecember 31, 2022
• The pyramid of problem solving and decision makingDecember 29, 2022
• Low cohesion and high coupling in embryological developmentNovember 19, 2022
• Awake dreamingOctober 14, 2022
• I don’t take my career too seriouslySeptember 28, 2022
• A framework of prioritisationAugust 25, 2022
• Learning to Play the Game of EvolutionAugust 19, 2022
• The AI SqueezeJune 14, 2022
• Generators, Iterables and IteratorsJune 4, 2022
• The Great Machine War — and the fate of humanityMay 14, 2022
• Healthcare is the parasite of our economy — but we can change that.May 5, 2022
• The future of research is virtualApril 24, 2022
• Similarity of System Design in Software Engineering and MedicineApril 6, 2022
• Passion for buildingApril 3, 2022
• Compassion in Software EngineeringApril 1, 2022
• Economic Sustainability of Healthacare and EducationMarch 1, 2022
• Learning to learn the hard waySeptember 8, 2021
• Communication debt: need for empowering small and mighty teamsSeptember 8, 2021
• Why achieving Darwinian equality is bad for humanity — from a utilitarian’s perspectiveJune 15, 2021
• The Theory of Product QualityJune 15, 2021
• Fixing flexbox child element overflows — the power of min-widthMay 25, 2021
• On Utilitarian and Categorical Morality: Utility PrevailsOctober 27, 2020
• On Lamarkian and Darwinian Inequality: Rethinking social sturcturesOctober 26, 2020
• AI and the Human ConditionNovember 1, 2018
• Theory of the universeJune 15, 2018