Express-Yourself (elf)
before joining ecsLab
before joining ecsLab
In your letter, please include an answer to one of the questions below;
or read one of our papers and tell us, in detail, why it interests you.
or read one of our papers and tell us, in detail, why it interests you.
Contact
Yu Liu
yu.ernest.liu AT bnu.edu.cn
SD Wu
sandao.wu AT hotmail.com
Please feel free to write to us ~
Freely — but not with an ad hoc, AI-written cold email that carries neither sincerity nor respect.
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The relation between the “smallest grammar” and the “ladderpath”
Using AI is fine — but everyone else is using it too, so the bar rises accordingly. Survey the literature; use concrete examples to explain the common smallest-grammar methods, tokenization, compression, and so on.
02
How to describe the complexity of living things
Using AI is fine — but everyone else is using it too, so the bar rises accordingly. Survey the literature; is there a quantitative approach, and what has been attempted so far?
Crossroad
CROSSROAD · handmade · SD Wu
Written at the moments of choosing a major, a direction, a road — left here for whoever is still standing at the crossroad.




You are afraid the road you choose will not lead to the life you want
You are afraid that once you choose a road there is no starting over
But
You hope you are always on the right road
So you hesitate
But what does the life you want actually look like
But the road you walk is not your life
The seasons you spend walking it, and standing at the crossroad — that is your life