Yourong Frank Wang

Category: Writing

  • Not Slow, But Doesn’t Fit in a Data Center

    On watching an ethical debate morph into an economic one, and the remaining roles of the human mind in guiding progress. A layman’s response to both the arXiv submission cap and OpenAI’s huge pile of mathematical proofs released on 6 October.

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    THE APERIODICALS
    Local (personal, potentially shallow, and subject to change) outlooks on science, technology, growth, and occasionally culture and history. The goal is to write something every week, but whether it can make its way to FWPhys is random. Hence the series title.

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  • Distance Measurement in a Conformal Universe

    As this is written in one short burst, there is less copy-editing than usual. This is not a technical Aperiodical piece. It concerns my own meta-physics as research, career, and life unfolds. No equations.

    In Series …
    THE APERIODICALS
    Local (personal, potentially shallow, and subject to change) outlooks on science, technology, growth, and occasionally culture and history. The goal is to write something every week, but whether it can make its way to FWPhys is random. Hence the series title.

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  • [LUX] 2026 Vienna Photo Marathon

    12 prompts and one journey.

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  • [Photo Journal Express] 12 August Celestial Events

    A personal supplement to the MPS / UniGoe IAG Night of Astronomy. This website used to do non-photo journal posts …

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  • [Photo Journal Spotlight] A Magical Encounter with Rainbows at Moeraki Boulders

    Giant, otherworldly balls scattered along north Otago’s Moeraki Beach, the Boulders look as though they were handcrafted and placed by design. These massive concretions are a geological marvel. Formed originally within ancient sea-floor mud through the slow, steady crystallisation of calcite over millions of years.

    (An express section of the NZ 2026 Photo Journal)

    A note on these: the images are mine and sit outside this site’s CC-BY-NC terms.

    What’s here is capped at 3 MP, which is plenty for a screen and no use at all on a wall. If you’d like a print, or a licence to hang one, say hello.

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  • “One Question To Ask Nature”

    Last night at Liffey Toastmasters table topics I was invited to respond to the prompt, “Say if you can ask nature one question and get a definite answer, what would your question be?” Thematically, the evening gathering was titled “0th Law of Robotics” with a tint of discussion over trends in AI and thinking machines (Herbert). This is the flushed out version of my response for the record.

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  • [Photo Journal Spotlight] Frankfurt Airport Flip Card Boards

    I’ve passed FRA quite a few times now but until this trip my 300mm lens was always in the checked baggage.

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