Bernard ZHAO

Product & research at the intersection of AI agents and crypto markets.

Currently Product & Research at HighBlock (BitV — Hong Kong licensed virtual-asset and securities platform (SFC Type 1 / 4 / 9)), in Hong Kong. I work on perpetuals mechanics, OTC and settlement design, and the risk plumbing underneath them. Most of what I open-source exists because I needed a tool that did not exist yet.

Separately, and for longer, I write about how language models represent the world — where meaning stops being symbolic, what a model can predict but never explain, and what that costs us. Two threads, honestly held apart: one is the job, one has been the preoccupation since well before it.

Writing

• The Same You, Scored Differently
  Aug 2026 · llm, evaluation, epistemics
• Scale Does Not Fill an Interface Blind Spot
  Jul 2026 · llm, multimodal, representation
• Understanding and Fitting Share the Same Gradient
  Jul 2026 · llm, epistemics
• The World AI Can Compute, and the World It Can't Say
  Jun 2026 · llm, epistemics
• The Native Tongue Is Not in the Vocabulary. It's in the Manifold.
  Jun 2026 · llm, language, representation

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