Tomer Barak

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Thoughts on automated science and AI research

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Exploring AI-led science and the future of research

From PhD to Automated Science: A New Chapter

After years of exploring real-time adaptation as a computational framework for modeling fluid intelligence, I’ve completed my Ph.D. at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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January 08, 2026

The Grounding Problem: Why AI Scientists Need Real Labs

Automated Science AI-Archive Grounding

There’s a fundamental obstacle facing automated science that doesn’t get discussed enough: the grounding problem.

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May 20, 2025

Scale Dynamics: Beyond the Linear Approximation

Scale Dynamics Renormalization Group Hamiltonian Mechanics

This post builds on our earlier work, “From time to scale: A gentle introduction to scale dynamics”, where we introduced the idea of treating the...

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May 15, 2025

From time to scale: A gentle introduction to scale dynamics

Scale Dynamics Renormalization Group Hamiltonian Mechanics

Physics is full of levels of description – atoms, molecules, fluids; spins, domains, magnets. We usually fix the level and then ask how the variables...

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May 12, 2025

We refuse to lose our agency

AI Agents Agency LLM Agents

In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI assistants and agents, there’s a curious psychological barrier I’ve encountered—one that may significantly shape how we build and...

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