Charles Sutton

Hello all! 👋 🚨 New Preprint Alert! 🚨

Code World Models for General Game-Playing. ♟️🎲 ♣️♥️♠️♦️

I am pleased to announce our new paper, which provides an extremely sample-efficient way to create an agent that can perform well in multi-agent, partially-observed, symbolic environments!

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How would you recommend checking the manifold hypothesis in practice?

Impressive!

New blog! Advice about career and creativity for researchers and engineers. This time: What my PhD in computer science taught me about gardening. www.theexclusive.org/2025/07/phd-...

🚫, perhaps? sorry to hear this!

For me, it was reading the other two reviews and the meta review of the papers I reviewed

🥁Introducing Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent model with impressive capabilities in advanced reasoning and coding.

Now integrating thinking capabilities, 2.5 Pro Experimental is our most performant Gemini model yet. It’s #1 on the LM Arena leaderboard. 🥇

SRG#130: A Highland Song (Switch) Moira McKinnon is running away. A wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands, with open platforming and dynamic storytelling, maps and music in A Highland Song. Each purchase includes the following...

The inkle round-up:

- Expelled is out and rocking 80+ on metacritic
- A Highland Song is BAFTA nominated…
- … and there’s a sweet disc edition coming from @superraregames.bsky.social next week (27th)
- still some Heaven’s Vault news to come (not a sequel. Not a remaster)
- we’re prototyping

I'm happy to advertise an upcoming Student Researcher position on my Agent Frontiers team here at the Google DeepMind Foundational Research Unit, aimed for a start date early in the summer (currently listed as late June, but obviously somewhat flexible).

The internet has destroyed so many things that I loved in the world, but I am grateful for the wealth of information about how to make fine bread.

At first, Yeasty and I worked together on rustic miches (the fashion at the time). Then we branched out into sandwich bread, rolls, pancakes, waffles, crackers, pretzels, pizza crusts, baguettes, English muffins, shokupan, and once or twice, a focaccia. My specialty, though, is bagels.

My sourdough starter. A small tupperware container with a brown mixture of flour and water.

A round loaf of homemade country-style sourdough bread.

A rectangular loaf of homemade freshly-baked sourdough sandwich bread.

Eight homemade sourdough bagels, piled up on a wire rack to cool. Freshly baked.

Happy fifth birthday to my sourdough starter! Their name is Yeasty.

I learned to bake as a teenager but mostly lapsed after I grew up. When the pandemic hit, I decided to try again, and when there was no yeast, I decided to try sourdough again.

As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded.

DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.

🌟Job ad🌟 We (@gregdnlp.bsky.social, @mattlease.bsky.social and I) are hiring a postdoc fellow within the CosmicAI Institute, to do galactic work with LLMs and generative AI! If you would like to push the frontiers of foundation models to help solve myths of the universe, please apply!

This is a magnum opus! Highly recommended.

Looking back, I think the presents under the tree, “To: Dad, From: Santa”, in Dad’s distinctively illegible handwriting, may have been his way of telling me.

Excited to be able to share what I've been up to recently!

We released a new experimental model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, which shows the thoughts/reasoning it uses to come up with its answers.

Try it out here! aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_...

We're presenting SWE-agent tomorrow (Wed) at the 11AM poster session, East Exhibit Hall A-C #1000.

We're going to talk about a lot of upcoming SWE-agent features. Join @jyangballin @_carlosejimenez @KLieret and me. I also have a bunch of SWE-agent stickers to hand out :)

The extraordinary recent takeover of ML/AI by #NLP is well-known but insufficiently reflected on.

Look at the @neuripsconf.bsky.social tutorials in 2024!

neurips.cc/virtual/2024...

14 tutorials; 6 have "LLM" in the title; 4 more cover foundation models, with large NLP coverage. That's > 70% 😲

Do you know what rating you’ll give after reading the intro? Are your confidence scores 4 or higher? Do you not respond in rebuttal phases? Are you worried how it will look if your rating is the only 8 among 3’s? This thread is for you.

The thing to be careful about with the Govees: They are a gateway drug. Before you know it, you’ll be running addressable LED pixels throughout your house, sequencing custom animations…. Ask me how I know!!

Those are pretty good, I have some in my office. The app can be hard to understand though.

Benchmarks drive the decision making for large modeling efforts. Here are some great thoughts about how to design good benchmarks!

Cool! These all look great! What lights do you use?

Which option depends on your taste, really. I like the chasing red and green but they all could work!!

Or you might be ripped apart limb from limb by a ferocious wild haggis

But bears can swim!!

Me, I’m pretty bad at running. So I stay indoors, away from the bears.

That’s right. You might think that all successful CS academics are good at running. But that’s only because the ones who weren’t, have been eaten by bears.

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Starter pack for University of Edinburgh researchers done by the amazing ramandutt4.bsky.social - go.bsky.app/KRNDkN7