Andrew Sutherland
@asuth
Chief Product Officer, Art of Problem Solving. Working on excellent cities, computers, and education. YIMBY. Previously founded Quizlet. [email protected]
PERSONAL NEWS TIME!! I'm joining AoPS to bring kids to the frontiers of science and technology. AoPS is an advanced math curriculum company that serves the most ambitious and motivated students in the world. I am the new Chief Product Officer.
Team USA won 5 IMO golds and 1 silver. AoPS is critical infrastructure supporting it all. Honored to be part of it!
Congratulations to Team China for winning decisively at the 2025 IMO. Team USA won second, followed by South Korea, Japan, and Poland.
The International Math Olympiad is in Australia this year. Students are testing now, results in a few days!
A real before/after moment for California. A moment where we actually, finally, truly became serious about solving our housing crisis. CEQA reform is here!
You've probably been hearing a lot about budget bills, environmental reviews, and labor fights out here on the West Coast. It's all adding up to probably the biggest policy change in modern California history. Here's a breakdown for the perplexed.
Total victory for YIMBYs today. We did it. We actually did it!!
VICTORY! The biggest housing CEQA reform ever just passed the Legislature! Many thought we were chasing at windmills when Asm. @BuffyWicks introduced AB 609, a clean CEQA exemption for infill housing. Today, we showed them that CA can and will end its housing shortage!
California had 9.5 GW of batteries powering the grid this evening. More than any other source.
We are gonna upzone near transit this year fr this time
SB 79 PASSES OUT OF THE CALIFORNIA SENATE! 🎉🥑
AoPS should have a Wikipedia page. Notable alumni section will be crazy. Who can make this happen?
People think California is 'full'. We could fit a billion people and still be less dense than Paris. And that's just on existing developed land. We are so far from the limits.
If California had 1 billion people, and they all lived only on the urban and suburban land already populated today, it’d still be less dense than Paris. There’s SO much room for growth and abundance. We are nowhere near running out of space.
as a child I felt all of the problems in the world came from adults that didn't care, so i swore a oath to never become one of them, i would always care, even if it burns
I built a realtime multimedia tutor that: 🎨 Generates visuals in realtime (diagrams, photos, sketches) while it speaks 👁️ Sees what you see (via camera/screenshare) to help in context ✍️ Writes key facts, equations, details on the screen — no rambling monologues Watch me point…
SF is a barely serious city in terms of cities.
When people tell you there is no more space to build new housing - here is Paris overlaid on San Francisco. SF is slightly larger, despite having 808,000 people compared to 2.3m in Paris.
The info density from AI explanations can be very high, if you tune it right. An experiment by Zain and me (mostly Zain):
IMO I still learn more from a 1 minute YouTube video than a 10 minute chat with even the brightest AI. Why? Because it's easier for me to learn complex topics when I can actually see them! 👀 So here’s a demo (sound on 🔉) where AI generates on-demand explainer videos for any…