Max Chiswick Website

Gabon (2016)

Gabon (2016)

Work

Website URL Description
Overbet.ai https://overbet.ai Ideas at the intersection of AI and game strategy, starting with a Texas Hold'LLM demo.
The Expected Value (EV) Foundation https://expectedvalue.org The Expected Value Foundation helps people explore the concept of expected value in fun and practical ways. It runs Poker Camp, a program to teach AI and better reasoning through poker.

Other Websites

Website URL Description
Personal Substack https://chisness.com
https://chis.biz (same)
Operating since at least 2002, some years drastically more active than others.
AI Poker Tutorial https://aipokertutorial.com About AI and poker, but made in 2020 and hasn't been updated enough. Working on it.
Chabad.earth https://chabad.earth I like visiting Chabad houses, especially when traveling. On this site everyone can make a map of their own that shows the Chabad houses they've been to/want to visit.
40k Travel Map https://40k.earth
https://40k.earth/chisness
Build your own travel map and compare with friends (40,000 km is the circumference of the earth).
Carrot Museum https://carrotmuseum.org I've collected some artworks including along some unusual themes like carrots (my favorite food).
Hotel Eggs https://hoteleggs.com
https://instagram.com/hotel_eggs
I like eating eggs. Unfortunately most hotels do not make very good ones (or maybe I'm staying at the wrong hotels), not to mention the oils they're likely using.
Rotisserie Ride https://rotisserieride.com In late 2019 I came up with an idea to ride a bicycle from LA to NYC via Chicago consuming rotisserie (or other supermarket) chicken each day. I hope that this will happen and apparently it is only seasonally viable in fall.

Background

Category Details
Home I grew up outside of Chicago and am now living in NYC.
Education Electrical Engineering at Northwestern (BS, 2008) and Technion (MSc, 2017). 1.5 batches (18 weeks) at the Recurse Center (2019).

Activities

Category Details
Travel I spent perhaps a bit too much time traveling. Highlights:
  • Hiking Annapurna in Nepal
  • A 2.5 month road trip over a bunch of the US and Canada west of Chicago
  • Various adventures in Central/Western Africa like Dzangha-Sangha in Central African Republic and Virunga in DRC and Gabon
  • Cycling from Cairo to Cape Town on the Tour d'Afrique
  • Walking the length of Israel on the Israel Trail
Outdoors I enjoy walking, hiking, and cycling, and living in a place with rental bikes is very critical!
Indoors I like food, but mostly eat the same thing every day. (Send me taste enhancements.) I also like playing games, including poker.
Tennis A childhood normal hobby, then very occasional interest, then semi-obsession from 2021-2023, and now TBD.
Art I think art collecting is overlooked and lots of the best art (and furniture) is not very expensive and more accessible than you'd expect, even if you also know nothing about art history!
Clothing I like getting a good deal and for a period decided that I should therefore spend unprecedented amounts of time on getting good deals on clothing that I certainly did not need and would often never wear. But now I know a lot of things about clothing brands and value and, kind of, what to wear. Or maybe not in the case of this hoodie:
@liana.ava

If the tag is still on and you have’t worn it in a year…what do you do? Huge closet cleanse in Chicago 👔 a Shibori Doublet hoodie 🍓

♬ Chill Day - LAKEY INSPIRED
Investments I've made a few small investments in startups including Manifold Markets and Clearspace.

Contacts

Platform Link
Email max.chiswick@gmail.com
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Photograph

Manifest 2024 at Lighthaven in Berkeley, CA

Berkeley (2024)