Eric Liu

Building @TakoViz | Berkeley EECS

[Alex Rosenberg @AlexRRosenberg]

https://t.co/wbqcmlukpU

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

@ttobbaybbob @TakoViz the @vercel ai sdk and graphology for the tree structure!

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

I built a spatial research canvas

Ask it a question → it fans out into subagents → each one queries realtime proprietary data that you can't just find on the web via. tako

Then it synthesizes across nodes → sub-query findings get connected on the canvas, so you can literally watch separate research threads merge into conclusions

Everything assembles live, grounded and citable → accurate and faster than any traditional deep search llm

[dax @thdxr]

please i'm begging you show me something you built

not another "this is my custom agent setup" post where you pretend you're doing something smarter than vanilla claude code

please

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

I built a spatial research canvas

Ask it a question → it fans out into subagents → each one queries realtime proprietary data that you can't just find on the web via. tako

Then it synthesizes across nodes → sub-query findings get connected on the canvas, so you can literally watch separate research threads merge into conclusions

Everything assembles live, grounded and citable → accurate and faster than any traditional deep search llm

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

repo link here: https://t.co/Is9r1JAwyO

[bobby abbott @ttobbaybbob]

Come grind non-performatively with us @TakoViz 🐙

[Alex Rosenberg @AlexRRosenberg]

https://t.co/IVBzwBpbp8

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

2016 warriors

[Aaryan @aaryantwt]

What the fuck is this lineup . @Etched poached top cream exactly what they needed

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

HUH???

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

I made a receipt generator that shows which companies are profiting from your taxes. Type in any company and see how "federally fed" it is.

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

check it out here: https://t.co/mwMR02CoUA

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

I made a receipt generator that shows which companies are profiting from your taxes. Type in any company and see how "federally fed" it is.

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

I made Wrapped but for your taxes. See what the government spent with your money

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

@suriya_nith @UCBerkeley @TakoViz congrats!

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

hi everyone! I'm eric (new to x, 19, in sf, blah blah blah)

- 2nd year studying EECS @UCBerkeley
- current founding eng. @TakoViz
- founded an edtech company (raised to 3 mil val.) within a month of college
- gave a speech with the LinkedIn CEO to hundreds of students at an event I founded in high school
- recruited water polo player
- 3x hackathon winner
- love cooking, all sports, camping, botc, black mirror,

gonna be posting more on x, hmu if you like tech, building cool stuff, or are in the bay!

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

@Brennan_Lup @UCBerkeley @TakoViz unfortunate :(

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

@cadenbuild i'm tryna get that chessglasses,uberkeats,knicksmosiac type motion

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

@ttobbaybbob super excited to see where Tako can go!

[Eric Liu @Eric35123759]

@ryenduu Shoutout 61b

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

I accidentally broke my brain reading about Nobel Prize winners last month.

There's this thing called "Janusian thinking" that basically explains why some people's minds work like magic while the rest of us think in straight lines. Named after Janus, the Roman god with two faces pointing opposite directions.

The psychologist who discovered it, Albert Rothenberg, was trying to figure out what made breakthrough thinkers different. He interviewed dozens of Nobel laureates, major artists, revolutionary scientists. What he found sounds impossible.

These people can hold two different ideas in their mind at the same time. They can explore both without switching back and forth or forcing a quick comparison. They can consider “yes” and “no” to the same question simultaneously and stay clear-headed.

Einstein too talked about this when he described his relativity breakthrough. He was imagining riding alongside a beam of light while also standing perfectly still. Both perspectives at once. Mozart said he could hear an entire symphony "all at once," every note, every contradiction, every resolution happening in a single moment of awareness.

Your average person's mind works like a courtroom. Evidence comes in, you weigh it, you reach a verdict. Case closed. But Janusian minds work more like... I don't know, like a quantum computer that can process multiple realities simultaneously until something new emerges from the overlap.

I've started noticing it in conversations. When someone can genuinely see both sides of something without needing to pick one, it drives people nuts. They want you to land somewhere definite. The ability to live in that tension space reads as wishy-washy or indecisive.

Most creative advice tells you to "think outside the box." But Janusian thinking is weirder than that. It's being inside and outside the box at the same time. It's thinking the box exists and doesn't exist simultaneously.

Which explains why truly creative people seem slightly unhinged. They think they're choosing between realities. But, they're inhabiting multiple realities at once, mining the contradictions for insights the rest of us never see.

Sadly, most of us have trained ourselves out of this ability. We've learned that holding contradictions feels unstable, so we rush toward resolution. We've been taught that changing your mind means you were wrong before, so we defend positions instead of exploring them.

But the people changing the world have kept that childlike ability to hold impossible thoughts without needing them to make sense immediately.

We just need to live in the questions everyone else is too scared to ask.

[darkzodchi @zodchiii]

https://t.co/zE4lOGVwdO