The future of AI is open source and decentralized

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I’m excited to share that I’ve been promoted to Full Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This milestone feels especially meaningful: I am the first Iranian woman to hold this position in physics at MIT. I carry my heritage with pride, especially in moments like this. I’m deeply

The Compton effect ✍️ It is an important discovery that shows light acts like a particle when it collides with matter. Picture a high-energy light particle, called a photon, hitting a stationary electron, similar to a cue ball striking a billiard ball. During this impact, the

Grigori Perelman's famous paper✍️

A student built a real anti-gravity machine… using an Arduino. How to Make an Acoustic Levitator: Arduino Nano + motor driver + about 60 ultrasonic transducers. They all emit ~40 kHz sound. The sound waves meet and form fixed pockets in the air. Tiny bits of styrofoam get

Xinghong (Shin) Fu LUCID attention does this: arxiv.org/abs/2602.10410

For over 30 years, complexity theorists have identified problems where quantum computers surpass classical ones. But there's a broader class of problems that they've barely begun to study, whose inputs and outputs aren't ordinary strings of bits, but are themselves inherently

Topology is my love language

Mathematician Terence Tao explained how AI is solving Erdős math problems. Researchers can now analyze thousands of scenarios simultaneously instead of focusing on just one. The Atlantic published a piece. When humans solve math, they learn a lot from the journey, but AI

A mathematical model for the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument arxiv.org/abs/2602.20827

A lot of learning is a lovely thing, as the saying doesn't go. Take Christiana Mavroyiakoumou's Mathematical Physiology course, for example. Something to learn for the mathematician and non-mathematician alike. Lecture 7: wave propagation in neurons: youtu.be/m0U-sePlrn0

Just learned: next autumn I shall be again teaching my course on the Philosophy and Logic of Games! What fun it was last time, and I hope it will be again.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin Taught Limits Using Zhuangzi’s One-Foot Rod. In November 2001, then Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Beijing University of Technology. During an impromptu stop in a calculus class discussing derivatives, he picked up chalk and wrote on the

Dirac was the strangest man who ever visited my institute. During one of Dirac’s visits I asked him what he was doing. He replied that he was trying to take the square-root of a matrix, and I thought to myself what a strange thing for such a brilliant man to be doing.

Peter Higgs was a quiet academic. He avoided attention, disliked conferences, and worked far from the spotlight. In 1964, from that silence, he wrote a paper barely two pages long not to be famous, but to fix a small inconsistency in gauge theory.

Nobel Prize-winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. The theme of Heisenberg's exposition is that words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of

autoresearch basically starts the era of disposable model. AI labs that can't automate their own R&D pipeline will be outrun by those that can. The moat isn't talent anymore - it's the speed of your automated experimentation loop. - minimax 2.7 was built from an autoresearch-like