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Tzu-Chi Yen
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顏子祺 | Software engineer | Prev: CS PhD | loves stories & science | junipertcy.info | he/him
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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!
www.kavlifoundation.org/careers/asso...
Associate Program Officer, Science
The Kavli Foundation is dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of humanity.
www.kavlifoundation.org
January 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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“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.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target
nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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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...
Karp: A Language for NP Reductions
docs.racket-lang.org
November 27, 2024 at 4:48 AM
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It's tough to gain visibility as a young researcher, and it's job market season! Are you a theoretical computer science PhD/postdoc on the job market?

I don't have a crazy juge audience but I'll try to help a bit: fill this form, and I'll tweet your pitch and info!
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Theoretical CS Job Market 2024
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December 1, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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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."
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...
arxiv.org
November 10, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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Some tips for addressing peer reviews that I shared with students.

yyahn.substack.com/p/some-tips-...
Some tips for addressing peer reviews
A few thoughts that I shared with students
yyahn.substack.com
April 4, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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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...
November 3, 2023 at 9:57 PM
Hello, World! 💙
September 25, 2023 at 9:04 PM