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I had a lot of fun making this laser alignment chart lol.

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research

For those interested in ECoG and measuring inter-areal interactions this might be of interest : biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Sarusawa Pond, Nara, by Tsuchiya Kōitsu, 1935

Good news, everyone! My PhD paper in the @FritjofHelmchen lab came out in Nature Neuroscience. Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors without whom this project could not have been realized. I'd also like to thank Kay M Tye PhD and the 2 anonymous reviewers for their thorough but fair reviews.

No one saw the world like David Lynch. The world lost a master of cinema today. RIP.

My lab at CUHK (QS: 36th) is hiring! We are looking for motivated Research Assistants, PhD students (urgent🚨) & Postdocs who love solving problems. To understand the mysterious brain, we use a range of fun techniques. Please spread the word & get in touch if you are interested!

As the aughties fade into history, let's recount the many lessons of the first leaderboard competition: The Netflix Prize. argmin.net/p/prediction-g…

Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493) — Completed in his early twenties, the work seems to slip between the waking world and the stuff of dreams... publicdomainreview.org/collection/dur…

Love this quote from Sir Michael Atiyah: "Algebra is the offer made by the devil to a mathematician. The devil says, 'I will give you this powerful machine...all you need to do is give up your soul: give up geometry...' The danger to our soul is there... when you pass into

The US National Science Foundation spends about $250 million (yes, that’s “million” with an “m”) funding math research (pure and applied) per year. ROI is actually incredible.

Where would we as a society be without math? It is a travesty that our entire public investment in math is ONLY $250M (0.004% of federal budget) given ROI is incredible. Examples: 1) elliptic curves -> cryptography 2) error correcting codes -> communication 3) information

My new WIRED piece about arXiv: either 1) the most important website you've never heard of or 2) the platform your entire field depends on Also had the pleasure of hanging out with its creator, Paul Ginsparg—the Forrest Gump of the Internet age

Two journals tried paying peer reviewers and found increased acceptance, earlier reports, and no change in quality. WHAT A SURPRISE!

Bill Powers on logical paradoxes: "If you treat one of these paradoxes without considering time, you appear to get a contradiction that is impossible: some proposition must be true and false simultaneously. If this relay contact is closed, it is open. But if you actually build

Stefan Banach was born exactly 133 years ago. Here’s an interesting instance of the Banach fixed-point theorem

This is flying a bit under the radar. But in terms of damage to America’s innovation and knowledge supremacy, the chilling effect of these revocations on the country’s ability to attract and retain scientific talent likely dwarfs the impact of tariffs or other policies.

New vitalik.eth blog post on replacing the EVM with RISC-V in the long-term. I am a huge fan of this direction for Ethereum's execution layer. Today, RISC-V zkVMs like SP1 are the clear endgame solution for "ZK-ifying" Ethereum and quickly becoming the de-facto solution for

-- Alexander Grothendieck (1928–2014), revolutionary algebraic geometer ✍️

Great article, “How a Biofilm’s Strange Shape Emerges From Cellular Geometry” in Quanta Magazine. Here are biofilms grown by researcher Lars Dietrich, all from the same bacterium, fed different nutrients. [Link in reply because of dumb new policy restricting tweets with links.]