I lead a research group (supported by the Carl-Zeiss foundation) at the newly established Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications of the University of Jena and the Helmholtz Center in Berlin. I’m using computational tools and machine learning to capture the tacit and fuzzy dimensions of chemistry and materials science – to design materials that work in the real world.
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Below you can find some of my notes. These notes are not quality-controlled. I try to put out rough first drafts and those notes are not polished, perfectionist, and nuanced treatments of complex topics. I am putting those out because I think that putting things out is better than not putting them out — people are free to ignore, but perhaps someone finds something useful.
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 2/2/25 | 10 Reasons to Aim Higher. And Higher. |
| 1/12/25 | Dear Claude: Are We Getting Too Close? |
| 1/9/25 | Thinking aloud about the shape of scientific data |
| 1/5/25 | A wise bird |
| 1/5/25 | Trust Me, There’s a Method to This Madness |
| 12/2/24 | Take it easy, my friend |
| 9/21/24 | The Tail End |
| 5/3/24 | Performing basic analysis of molecules generated by ML models |
| 5/2/24 | Building a GPT that can generate molecules from scratch |
| 5/2/24 | Building an LLM agent from scratch |
| 3/24/24 | The ‘researcher’s stuff’ |
| 3/2/24 | Language I want to be more mindful of |
| 3/2/24 | Multiple instances learning |
| 2/23/24 | Developing an intuition for backpropagation |