Nikhara Nirghin

Nikhara Nirghin is an actuarial scientist and statistical quantitative researcher with an MBA from London Business School. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Deloitte, where she served on Deloitte's forward deployed vertical board. She won the International Best Paper Award on Stochastic Data Modeling from the Reinsurance Group of America.

Her work spans statistical mathematics research, LLM-driven recommendation systems, and high-throughput quantitative trading strategies.

Human cognitive capacity limitations and AI abstraction complexity are the key barriers to accelerating AI advancement, combined with insufficient breakthrough innovations. Chima unblocks the latter by achieving the former as quickly as possible.

"Intelligence is just compression. Everything else is implementation details."

"The most interesting problems live at the intersection of what's theoretically possible and what humans actually need."

Recommended Books

A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander
The timeless way of building systems.
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
David MacKay
The mathematical foundations of intelligence.
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
Explanations that transform reality.
On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins
How brains create intelligence.
The Theoretical Minimum
Leonard Susskind
Physics from first principles.
Metamathematics
Gregory Chaitin
The limits of mathematical reasoning.
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Timothy Gowers
The entire mathematical universe.
Permutation City
Greg Egan
Fiction that thinks harder than most non-fiction.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Richard Hamming
Learning to learn at scale.
Synergetics
Buckminster Fuller
Thinking in whole systems.