Jiarui (Jerry) Xu

Still Learning Machines

jiarui.c.xu@gmail.com



Writings

My Bitter Lessons January 7, 2026 Product Lessons I Learned from Teaching People Zoom November 15, 2020

Active Projects

Products
Cyber FM AI-powered radio station *
Overfitting.ai Agentic Systems for ML *
NewGrad.ai AI-powered career tools for new grads *
GBDT Research
JAXBoost JAX autodiff for XGBoost/LightGBM objectives
Awesome GBDT Curated list of GBDT resources
OpenBoost GPU-native, all-Python platform for tree-based ML *
Transformer Research
microTabPFN Minimal TabPFN in ~210 lines for education
Micro RL Reinforcement learning agents for Codenames *
Education
AIpedia.org AI encyclopedia and learning resource
transformer101.com Learn transformer architecture from scratch *
agentology.org Anthropology for Agents *
Community
OpenRegulations.ai AI analysis for regulations.gov

* in active development. coming soon in Q1 2026

Select In-Active Projects

East Bay FeedER — Fed frontline hospital staff & supported local restaurants
Mission Bit — CS education for underserved youth in SF
Code Nation — Tech education for under-resourced high schoolers