Alex

@BBHerodotus 🦦

J.R.R Tolkien in his study with his wife, Edith.

@YingShirleyMeng @NTUsg 🦦

Nanyang Technological University @NTUsg is my Alma Mater. One of the best universities in the world. I am proud to be pulled back there as distinguished university professor and serve as Vice President for Industry. Yes, the push was there but the pulling is the key! 🗝️

@SciFiArchives 🦦

File clerks working at their electric elevator desks in Prague, former Czechoslovakia, 1937.

@george__mack 🦦

Winston Churchill used to lay 200 bricks per day to keep his mind busy when feeling down. Depression hates a moving target.

@ben_j_todd edu

Math Olympians ~100x more likely to win a Fields Medal (the Nobel for maths) than the average math PhD student. This analysis suggests they're also ~10x more likely to found a unicorn startup.

@ChengManqi 🦦

My latest LateTalk episode breaks down DeepSeek V4. The most illuminating part： V4 became a lens into the entire Chinese open-source ecosystem — and how much these teams are learning from each other. -ByteDance Seed proposed HC. DeepSeek took it further with mHC. Kimi developed Attention Residuals from a related direction. -Both Kimi and DeepSeek are pushing the Muon optimizer. -DeepSeek is now running deep on TileLang, an open-source kernel language started by proffessor Yang Zhi and his team from Peking University. On this episode：Zhao Chenyang @GenAI_is_real (SGLang core dev at RadixArk, ex-Amazon AGI SF Lab & Seed) and Liu Yifeng @YIFENGLIU_AI (optimizer & model arch researcher, ex-Kimi & Seed).🧵

adiabatic

yu ming style： intuition compression and co-design

@ted_huang so that map relies on balance in Korea peninsula, indochine, with Soviet, and with India. it is still a work in progress…

@ted_huang KMT started with a Han core and anti Manchu platform, even though after KMT merge with 北洋 and with 清室优待条例，it doesn't have enough resource to enforce the claim. CCP enlarged it with on a Ming-Qin platform after settle the northern border 50s, southern border 60s.

For people like me who grew up in Taiwan and were taught how KMT ruled all of China, historical maps like this one (c. 1931) can be a bit jarring It’s a reminder that what we think we know about history is often very different from how things really were

kähler

辛

fdm vs fem

@deniswirtz @UMich @Penn @Harvard @MIT @JohnsHopkins @Stanford @Caltech @UCLA @UCSanDiego 🦦

We skeletonized all nerves mapped in 3D and at single-cell resolution to study their geometry and topology in whole embryos. Nerve networks display scale-invariant bifurcation geometry and fractal topology, across species and development stages. Here: biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

@deniswirtz @HopkinsEngineer @JohnsHopkins @Stanford @Penn @UMich @UCLA @Cambridge_Uni @TheCrick @Harvard @MIT 🦦

Whole organism 3D mapping reveals universal branching topology and biophysical optimization governs vascular and nervous system development Read about our work here: biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

武陵源 κολοφών

不周山

石峁 高庙

moguntiacum

zollern

moltke

@begusgasper Simone is going to take a similar photo 2000 years later with io in sight

Could he have imagined he would be read 30000ft above ground 2300 years later?

@Swarthyface 🦦

"I write not for the contemporary, but for the future man." ーThomas Carlyle