Harish Chandran
I study CS, Math, Philosophy at Duke. I care about talent and knowledge bases.
Now
Latest venture
Paretal
Talent intelligence. Company records and working relationships mapped onto the org chart, so you can see what people actually do.
Flat company records in, a graph of who actually works with whom out.
2026•Founder•paretal.com
Highlights
Play my repertoire
You take Black against the White repertoire I built over 8,970 chess.com games. Try to leave my book.
2026•Chess
3D Simplex Noise Implementation
Simplex noise written from scratch, then pointed at a few thousand particles so you can watch it work.
2023•Procedural
Chaos Theory Equation Representations (Strange Attractors)
Five chaotic systems integrated live from their differential equations. Drag to orbit.
2023•Chaos theory
Dynamic Enterprise Knowledge Graph
An org chart that also shows the actual work, and who would be missed if they left.
2026•Org charts
Everything else
- AltruatoHelping R&D companies find the technical researchers they need.2025•Company
- Governing Automated Strategic IntelligenceHow multimodal foundation models reshape military and economic intelligence, and what that means for nation-states.2025•Research
- LLM reasoning at Duke NLP LabResearch on how large language models reason, and how to make them reason better.Research
- Harish-FishStockfish, except it is fine-tuned to play chess as poorly as I do.2026•Code
- AdaptiveChessAIAn adaptive, ML-based chess engine. My first serious attempt at the problem.2021•Code
- Transformer from scratchUnpublishedBuilding a transformer with my own modifications, no framework magic. Not published yet.2026•Code
- Competitive programmingSolutions to Codeforces, USACO and other contest problems in C++.Code
- This websiteNext.js, Tailwind and a lot of opinions about dotted borders.Code
- ThoughtsDisquisitions on sentience, moral status and whether AI could be morally superior.Writing
Contact
Always open to talking with interesting people. If you are a young builder with something to show, I will do what I can to point you at the right people.