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Talk: Domain-specific tensor languages
Today I presented "Domain-specific tensor languages" at ICFP in Singapore.
The talk was recorded and will appear when the post-conference processing is done.
Until then, here are the Slides and an earlier (longer, thus different) youtube talk abou...
Post · October 14, 2025
Complexity in Literature, Simplicity of Truth, and the Human Drive
In Einstein’s early years—around 1901 to 1905—physics was still small enough for one mind to contain. A few dozen papers a year, most of them in Annalen der Physik, encompassed nearly everything that mattered. A curious person could read it all, t...
Post · October 13, 2025
The Shift from Learning to Research
When doing research in physics, I often find myself wondering: when is it okay to look up known results, and when should I “work it out all by myself”?
This question used to bother me a lot as a junior researcher (I am still a junior researcher b...
Post · October 11, 2025
Science as a Social Conversation (not just exploration)
Science is as much a social conversation as it is a quest for new knowledge. An idea, no matter how novel, is unlikely to gain traction if it is presented as an isolated remark disconnected from the ongoing dialogue within a field. In contrast, a ...
Post · October 10, 2025
Retrospective insights from the doctoral journey
The doctoral journey presents a landscape of unspoken challenges that often remain obscured by formal academic structures. What follows are seven hard-won truths, learned through experience that exacted a considerable toll in stress, burnout, and ...
Post · October 10, 2025
Jie Joins Radical Ventures’ 2025 Radical AI Founders Masterclass Cohort
TLC member, Jie Gao, has been selected to participate in Radical Ventures’ 2025 Radical AI Founders Masterclass, an exclusive annual program that supports leading AI researchers and technical entrepreneurs in developing the expertise and vision re...
Post · October 09, 2025
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