PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Sometimes it's hard to tell what's an unironic honest-to-god real corporate ad made by someone detached from reality, and what is a surrealist meme made by a chronically online gen Zer

Almost every time I have a tricky bug or conceptual problem, I've found visualising is nearly the only way to find and fix it.

I stumbled on @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social 's blog and his "Personal Rules of Productive Research" is very good. I now do a lot of things in the post, & wish I had done them when I was younger.

I share my "mini-paper" w ppl I hope will be co-authors.

www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/person...

I like to imagine they have marketing people using AI enthusiasts off Twitter in focus groups.

You either live long enough to be rebranded an AI researcher, or you die a death as a "classical method".

This is why I take my trajectory optimisation code out for random walks when it's feeling down. Get some fresh air, escape some local minimal, vibe.

Swiss gov requires insurance providers to not deny coverage or pick rates based on medical condition/age/etc, and for a standard set of basic insurance to be sold without making a profit. They can only make money on complimentary packages. It might be private but the gov has fingers on the scale.

This eventually forced me to go read about RoboCop prime directives. Similarities are uncanny.

RoboCop was given hundreds of new prime directives which rendered it ineffective, which is basically what's happening with system prompts and RLHF with ChatGPT today.

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).

The renamed:

Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

If you're looking for a change of pace, I'm looking forward for the first control-advent.com

It's accurate but the robot in question is actually the coffee machine with a PID controller 😉

Me trying to tune a PID controller

I just got an espresso machine for home (upgrading from a moka pot). You have no idea how much of a game changer it feels to roll out of bed into good coffee.

Anne Gagneux, Ségolène Martin, @quentinbertrand.bsky.social Remi Emonet and I wrote a tutorial blog post on flow matching: dl.heeere.com/conditional-... with lots of illustrations and intuition!

We got this idea after their cool work on improving Plug and Play with FM: arxiv.org/abs/2410.02423