Written Works

One year ago, I defended my doctoral dissertation. That day — that moment — represented a culmination. At the same time, this moment was unmistakably bittersweet...

Generative AI is on fire right now. With all of this excitement, I wanted to put multimodal models to the test and see how good they actually are. In particular, I wanted to answer three questions...

I spent the past two months building a large-language-model (LLM) powered application. It was an exciting, intellectually stimulating, and at times frustrating experience. My entire conception of prompt engineering — and of what is possible with LLMs — changed over the course of the project.

A few months back, with the ChatGPT craze in full swing, I saw an example application on OpenAI’s website of translating natural language input into SQL queries. It got me thinking: could something similar be done for datasets of images and videos?

Over the past few weeks, Meta AI Research’s general purpose image segmentation model has attracted a lot of attention. SAM is remarkably powerful...

For the past six months, I’ve been working at series A startup Voxel51. We have a lot of documentation, which has its pros and cons. So, here’s how I turned our docs into a semantically searchable vector database...

Back in June, inspired by paperswithcode.com my team and I created PapersWithData. To create the badges, we used Shields.io. To solve the problems we encountered, I built Badger!

Variational quantum algorithms bring full-scale simulations of the strong nuclear force one step closer to reality...

Result establishes near-term quantum computers as testbeds for exotic physics out of equilibrium...

Black holes are nature’s fastest data-scramblers, and new research suggests that secrets thrown into them may be more secure than previously thought...

Thin films of iron-based superconductors offer a simpler setting for elusive quasiparticles...

In November, we witnessed another remarkable scientific feat, as Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold2 “solved” the protein folding problem...

One of the first topics I ever posted about here on Silhouette of Science is Symmetry. I was fascinated by the manifold ways, both obvious and subtle, that Symmetry pervades our world...

Physics and philosophy are like cosmic yin and yang, complementary and complete, our universe their union. They exist in distinct spaces...

Temporally, we believe the age of the Universe to be roughly 13.8 billion years. Spatially, the observable universe is a sphere 93 billion light-years across. What’s beyond this sphere is a mystery...

In science as in art, abstraction has always been vital to progress. It is responsible for our mathematics, for many of our scientific discoveries, and for unearthing overlooked connections in old theories...

A retail company is building a mobile app to help customers buy clothes. To create this app, they need a high-quality dataset containing clothing images, labeled with different categories...

Quantum cryptography, the use of quantum mechanical principles to make and break codes, could alter the way cybercrimes are committed, as well as the way in which we defend against them...

Dr. Shangqin Guo, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, has discovered that faster cell cycles are related to higher rates of reprogramming efficiency...

New research from Professor Debra Fischer, Yale Professor of Astronomy, suggests that stellar multiplicity, the presence of two or more stars in one system, may suppress planet formation....

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare,” continues to have fits and starts, but its implementation has steadily progressed...