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Engineering Paradigm → Scholar: Running a Student Life on First Principles

Backward derivation, quantification, automation, Pareto, and restorable backups — engineering habits transplanted into academic life.

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Focus, Guarding Peace, and an Energy Map for Fighting Entropy

The highest respect others can pay you is to filter out a clean vacuum around you.

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Mirror Images of Greatness: Two Paths to the Throne and the Force of Inevitability

Messi is football’s Kendrick. Ronaldo is Drake-grade absolute execution.

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An 80-Year Conjecture, a Genetic Algorithm, and Ag₁₀ versus Au₁₀

Some personal associations prompted by OpenAI’s unit-distance result.

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A Dual-Engine Framework for LLM-Augmented Scientific Research

Integrating formal experimentation with creative exploration: Day Science and Night Science as physically separated engines.

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The Subway Take: Some Thoughts on Research Ideation

A short-form interview format and the opening paragraph of a high-impact paper have more in common than I expected.

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The Evaporating Moat — Rethinking Human Competitiveness in the Age of Autonomous AI Research Ecosystems

In a future where research is computable and programmable by a single command, what remains of the human element beyond the intangible boundaries of scientific taste?

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From Passive to Programmable: Reading Notes on Weilai Yu’s REI Viewpoint

How one researcher’s accumulated experimental intuition became a complete cognitive map for interface design — and what that process reveals about how breakthroughs actually form.

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