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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
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
🧠 Del aula a la consulta: el recorrido del estudiante de medicina en Psiquiatría
A lo largo de la carrera, los estudiantes de medicina siguen un camino que les lleva del conocimiento teórico del ser humano al encuentro con la persona enferma.
En segundo curso, dentro de Psicología Médica, exploran cómo funciona el sujeto nor...
Post · October 08, 2025
Optimization under uncertainty
A new preprint is now up on arXiv dealing with opimization under uncertainty (Nicola Botta, Patrik Jansson, Tim Richter)
PDF: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.18561
Link: arXiv:2503.18561
Abstract:
One of the most ubiquitous problems in optimization is that ...
Post · October 07, 2025
🌿 Some People Find Beauty in Art Galleries; I Find It in Plant Resilience
There is a special kind of elegance in how plants face the world.
They cannot move away from danger, yet they constantly adapt. They adjust their metabolism, fine-tune their gene expression, and even communicate with their neighbors through signal...
Post · October 07, 2025