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Science is difficult, and its difficulty is part of what makes it special.

Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 🔬 Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026

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“and they brought it down to at a certain time in the night upstairs somebody would be walking. And that vibration affected the laser set-up. Um so yes, science is very hard, but that's what makes it special, right? The other thing Liam and I have been talking about is a lot of the current improvements focus on math and coding and theoretical computer science.”
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