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Many PhDs (my past self included) fall into the trap of thinking that publishing in top-tier conferences is the ultimate goal. But publishing ≠ impact. Muon was just a blog post. It got Keller into OpenAI, he might be training GPT-5 with it now. I'm grateful he listed me as

Thrilled to announce our new publication titled 'Decoding predicted future states from the brain's physics engine' with Elizabeth Mieczkowski, Cyn X. Fang, Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected], and Josh Tenenbaum. science.org/doi/full/10.11… (1/n)

I believe successful neural network training represents cases of "near convexity": the optimization landscape, while technically non-convex, behaves enough like a convex problem that standard convex optimization is often applicable. At the same time, *in general* neural nets