Tzu-Chi Yen

Associate Program Officer, Science The Kavli Foundation is dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of humanity.

Job Alert: The Kavli Foundation is hiring! We're looking for an associate program officer in the science team, with expertise in nanoscience, materials, quantum or astrophysics. 🪐 Come work with us!
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07.01.2025 21:08 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Open a big hole in the results section. Put your discovery in another poster. Then, use the poster as a carousel that underlies the hole. Now you can rotate it to show different parts of your story! (Saw this idea somewhere but couldn't find the OP.)

12.12.2024 08:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
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01.12.2024 23:58 — 👍 1116    🔁 499    💬 28    📌 30

Karp: A Language for NP Reductions

I wanted my Algorithms students to program NP hardness reductions so we developed Karp. A domain specific language for writing Karp reductions. Our students are quite good with a debugger, so reducing learning Theory to debugging seemed like a win. docs.racket-lang.org/karp/index.h...

27.11.2024 04:48 — 👍 27    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

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01.12.2024 21:12 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Lost Women of Science Science Podcast · 95 Episodes

Amazing podcast about the lost women of science podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/l...

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27.11.2024 04:39 — 👍 33    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

The statement reminds me of Lemma 2.1 of the KMeans++ paper (theory.stanford.edu/~sergei/pape...), which supports their ensuing proof that the initial centroids will not be too bad from the optimal clustering. It became the default KMeans seeding option in Scikit-learn.

26.11.2024 22:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Diffusion Models are Evolutionary Algorithms In a convergence of machine learning and biology, we reveal that diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms. By considering evolution as a denoising process and reversed evolution as diffusion, we m...

Diffusion Models are Evolutionary Algorithms arxiv.org/abs/2410.02543

"we mathematically demonstrate that diffusion models inherently perform evolutionary algorithms, naturally encompassing selection, mutation, and reproductive isolation."

10.11.2024 01:53 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Some tips for addressing peer reviews A few thoughts that I shared with students

Some tips for addressing peer reviews that I shared with students.

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04.04.2024 19:05 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Professor recognized for research by Dean Aaron Clauset, a professor in the Department of Computer Science, is the first computer science faculty member to be recognized with the Dean's Award for Research since the category began in 2005. "It's a great honor to represent our department in this way," Clauset said. The award for Clauset's research recognizes his outstanding contributions to the 'science of science', which combine advanced computational techniques with rich empirical data to shed new light on the origin and consequences of inequalities within the academic workforce, and how those inequalities shape who makes what scientific discoveries.

I am truly honored to receive this award from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences here @ CUBoulder, for my group's research on the science of science! 🎉 It's a joy to work with such amazing collaborators & students on a topic with real impact www.colorado.edu/cs/2023/11/0...

03.11.2023 21:57 — 👍 27    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0

Hello, World! 💙

25.09.2023 21:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0