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Alex Zhang gets excited when design principles his group uses or considers appear applicable to a problem in another field.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“But I think like, if I find out either because someone reaches out or like I look at a problem and I'm like,”
“like some design principles that we use or that we're thinking about right now actually make a lot of sense for this problem.”
“i get excited about those as well but i think i think it's harder i i don't know i think with i think science especially like empirical or like applied science has very very long like what is it called like feedback loops or whatever um yeah yeah”Play from 1:37:54Report a misattribution
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