Welcome to Musings by Chris Hayduk
Periods of rapid technological change don’t stay contained within technology. They propagate through every adjacent system (including economic, political, philosophical, and institutional), and the second-order effects are routinely more consequential than the first. Most writing about these shifts stays siloed within a single domain, meaning most writers are systematically blind to the interactions that actually matter.
The goal of this blog is to build a rigorous, cross-disciplinary understanding of where we’re going as a society.
The writing here skews toward AI because that’s where I work and where I think the most consequential changes are originating, but the aperture is deliberately broad. Understanding where we’re going requires pulling from wherever the signal is, whether that’s mathematics, physics, biology, history, literature, or economics. And deeply understanding those fields means engaging with their core texts, whether textbooks, research papers, or primary historical sources.
If that orientation appeals to you, you’ll probably find something worth reading here.
About Me
In my day job, I am a Forward Deployed Engineer on the Life Sciences team at OpenAI, where I work with pharma and biotech organizations to deploy frontier AI systems against problems in drug discovery, clinical development, and the broader life sciences stack.
Previously, I was a Machine Learning Engineer at Meta, working on applied AI & machine learning research for our ads ranking models — leveraging graph data, graph neural networks, and large language models to improve prediction quality across the entire ads ranking stack.
Before that, I served as the Lead Machine Learning Engineer for Drug Discovery at Deloitte, where I built biomedical knowledge graphs, trained and finetuned drug discovery AI models, and developed workflows for in-silico drug optimization.
My academic background includes:
A Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Mathematics from Fordham University
A Master of Science in Applied Statistics from the Fordham Gabelli School of Business
A Master of Science in Mathematics from The City College of New York
[In progress] A Master of Science in Computer Science with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence at the Georgia Institute of Technology
📫 How to Reach Me
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chris_hayduk1
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrishayduk/
GitHub: https://github.com/ChrisHayduk
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/chris_hayduk
Views expressed anywhere on this blog are my own and do not represent those of my employer. Nothing here should be taken as investment, legal, or medical advice.
