Dashun Wang

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I had a blast yesterday chatting with Terry Tao on "AfterMath". To me it was an emergency conversation. What has happened to math has kept me awake at night. I believe all scientists must take this seriously. And the idea of "AfterMath" is to raise awareness and key questions for the sciences. Our whole conversation unpacks one central thesis: the decoupling between the frontiers of knowledge and human understanding, and work through what then happens to science, scientists, scientific institutions, and the relationship between science and society. For example, are we sure we can still ask the right questions if we are no longer at the frontier? How scientific progress might nevertheless emerge without full verification. What should scientific institutions sustain, from expertise to funding and national capability to scientific authority, and what are implications for open science. For these "airplanes for the mind", can they help us see where we fly past, and identify overlooked possibilities? are they converging us? and are they enabling us to ask more ambitious questions and questions that span wide terrains? But where are the airports, control towers, pre-flight checklists, and FAAs? indeed, where are the FAAs? and can we build blackboxes for these 'blackboxes'? And can we transfer machine capabilities back to scientists - going from "machine learning" to "learning from machines" - and how do we effectively do that?

These are urgent questions in an uncertain time. email me if you have any thoughts and suggestions. We must navigate this change together and thoughtfully.

My prior on the future of science has shifted significantly over the past month. Join me next Thur (Nov 5) in SF for a fireside chat between Terry Tao and me on AfterMath: What Comes Next for Science?

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In celebration of slow science... 5 (or 6? 7?) years in the making. We study how innovation communities fade. Using data across four domains - science, tech, phones, drugs - we find one phenomenon: preferential detachment. we then show this preferential detachment induces a novel kind of network collapse and we work out the exact analytical solution for different network topologies. check out the paper in the thread - congratulations @binglu_wang and team!

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