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The work I am most proud of is not my best-known work. As a graduate student, I was enthralled by a mysterious phenomenon of emergent cell synchrony that …
The work I am most proud of is not my best-known work. As a graduate student, I was enthralled by a mysterious phenomenon of emergent cell synchrony that …
It is widely discussed, most prominently by Alberts et al., that the current academic culture is increasingly suppressing the creativity, …
Michael I. Jordan, one of the most prominent statisticians of our time, warns that “The overeager adoption of big data …
One might introduce Egas Moniz as the great Nobel laureate and Dmitri Mendeleev as a chemist with few great awards. Much more informatively, however, one should introduce Egas Moniz as an influential protagonist of lobotomy and Dmitri Mendeleev as the co-inventor of the periodic table of elements.
We are fortunate to live in an exciting time. Today, new technologies enable the design and execution of straightforward experiments, …
I still remember very clearly the key reason behind my decision to attend MIT about a decade ago. It was …