Jeremy Zay

Writing

Writing

  1. Building Curve Explorer at Chatham Financial October 3, 2026Building a unified curve workflow in ONYX Pro with React, TypeScript, C#/.NET APIs, and Vitest during my summer 2026 internship.
  2. Building ZayBot: My AlphaZero-Style Chess Engine in Python February 24, 2026I built ZayBot as a hands-on AlphaZero-style engine project to learn by implementing the full loop myself: board representation, policy/value network, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), self-play trai...
  3. Zaychess: A Chess App Built to Feel Good to Play February 24, 2026Most chess apps optimize for ratings, puzzles, and endless analysis. Zaychess was built with a different goal: make playing chess feel tactile, social, and satisfying from the first click.
  4. From Noise to Geometry: Training a Diffusion Model to Draw Polygons February 24, 2026What if you could start with pure Gaussian noise and end up with clean, plausible geometry? That is exactly what I’m building in this project: a diffusion model that learns a distribution over 2D p...