Shawn Ryan

But so I just wish that I could better parse other people's papers, understand like how their notation, their ideas fit into the things that I've already built in my mind.

And so like the type of thing that I'm excited about more so is just, you know, can I take Inspire up this database of all the different papers in the field and try to, you

like use large language models or whatnot, just for fun to see like how much I can try to parse like the different concepts that are appearing in these papers.

And I think it's a fun game to be like, okay, when I'm asked to explain something publicly, why am I so shit?

I think I've spent a lot of years instead of getting better at public speaking, thinking like, why the hell am I so bad at it?

And I think there's these trade-offs between, you know, we are selected for, or at least in our job, it's better if you are not sacrificing accuracy.

And so anytime you're making an analogy, there's so many caveats, the caveats get in the way of the intuition going through, and then sometimes you don't even think that way.

So it's just like, can I try to see the structure of the thing I'm studying a little bit better by playing around with it within the scope of things that I know?

So I'm super excited just for the fact that I can experiment with that all I want to, because before I might need to be better at coding in Python or understand the Inspire Hub API keys, and that's API calls.

And then that's like...

automatic now.

So you get to basically just have fun.

And I like that a lot.

And so for me, I just want to basically understand better, like, what is the information content of what I work on, right?

Like in the human sense, not in the ADS safety sense.

Yeah.

I think this is something where I'm happy to hear your side of it too a bit more because I know everybody who has any sort of military background has a different view or conception of China than probably because physics is so useless, this type of physics that I do is seen as that, that it's nice because everybody can be a part of it.

We love this notion that it doesn't matter what country you're from, you're contributing

like this corpus and to be fair, everything that we're doing, we're publishing on archive for this.

So it's not like there's IP involved and like various IP policies can affect things.