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Zongfu Yu

Works on the physics, the computation, and the company-building behind first-principles simulation at scale.

Zongfu leads Flexcompute. He holds a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford, and writes about what becomes possible when first-principles physics is scaled by computation.

Essay

How Do I Explain Tokenized Physics to a Ten-Year-Old?

A cat, a mouse, and a creek: give each patch of water a name, and a computer can guess what the water does next.

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Essay The Uncomputed World

Why Simulate the World

When thinking and building become cheap, proof from the real world becomes the slowest step in progress. A second world, built from the laws of physics, makes proving fast: machines test designs there and build only the winners.

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Essay The Uncomputed World

Simulating the World

Language predicts a storm without resolving a single molecule. First-principles simulation resolves every molecule but cannot reach a single living cell. The way to simulate the world is a new tokenization of physics.

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Essay The Uncomputed World

A Physics Company

The laws of physics have been known for a century. What those laws do, at scale, has never been computed — and that gap is where an entire industry is still waiting to be built.

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