About

Hey there! I am Terry Feng — scientist and engineer — and I run 36K Labs. I work on strategic agents in marketplaces, at the intersection of machine learning, mechanism design and statistical estimation. My depth is forged over a decade in advertising and real estate marketplaces, where my work spans building calibrated prediction systems, designing bidding agents, optimizing auction marketplaces, and the statistical inference & experimentation designs to understand them. I see these same concepts playing a pivotal role for the economics and systems of future AI.

36K Labs is where I share my experiments, learnings, explorations and musings on such multi agent systems.

The name pays homage to the Chinese treatise Thirty-Six Stratagems (三十六計 - final character 計 in Japanese reads close to “kay”) which detailed the use of cunning, deceptive, patience to strategically outmaneuver your opponent. I hope to channel even a fraction of its knowledge here.