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June 2026
Photonics Has a Layout Problem

Why placement and routing, not arithmetic or energy, is the binding bottleneck in photonic computing, and the case for a physics-informed generative approach to chip layout.

Tom Wang, Ty Lipscomb
March 2026
Deploying Robots in the Real World

We examine why deploying vision-language-action models on real robots remains an unsolved systems problem, and explore the inference, memory, and observability gaps between impressive demos and production deployment.

Abiral Shakya, Charles Muehlberger
February 2026
Information Theory

We start from Claude Shannon's foundational work and build to some ideas in modern machine learning, and explore entropy, mutual information, and their unexpected connections.

Chandler Stevenson, Kia Ghods, Jerry Han

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