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In lecture, I crossed out a term in the math and said “hey girl, good bye” to the dire confusion of the class.

Silver lining is it inspired me to give a whole hour-long talk 7 years later on how to spot a fake robot video (and how not to) as penance for my failure.

I’ll cop to my bias as I now actively discount my ability to spot fakes based on video artifacts alone. I thought the Method2 was fake in 2017 based on the overall video gloss and context of the video release (some CGI/graphics designer just put it out on Instagram). It was very real, of course.

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I’m only a little sad how much I now need to know about popular streamers in order to keep up with robotics news.

*Not edited* is too strong a claim. Little camera/editing tricks can give a video more oomph. But I don’t currently have reason to believe this robot isn’t currently performing these maneuvers in a manner similar to the video.

This is from April. I talked about EngineAI in my August humanoids talk.

I’m always open to evidence from credible hunters of fakes, but I’m inclined to believe it. Their prior videos have included unedited demos with people interacting in frame. This is a natural next iteration of those.

Engine AI has always had the most interestingly and oddly pseudo mechanical-looking human motion retargeting. I wonder if that’s in the key framing or the reward.

Managed to login to my old Dominos account and it had my home address listed as my grad student office.

“Are you vegetarian?”

“That is our preference”

LOL. Bravo Vince.

Yes

*retargeting

That’s super. One of the better applications for humanoids are theme parks. They’re using motion targeting probably. Two years ago, Disney blew everyone away at a major robotics conference when they trotted out walking droids that looked amazing.

And even then, you could at least delete the Google+ account if you didn’t want it.

Thanks. Tagging with -ai works pretty well too. The fact that you have to do such a ritual for every search is maddening.

Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.

2025, folks.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

The fact that you can’t turn off AI search summaries is such a red flag. Doesn’t seem like a normal and non-desperate way to roll out an experimental feature.

A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:

And I’m not immune to falling for the anomaly-hunting trap. When a video looks a bit too shiny it looks fake, but that can sometimes just be an effect in post-production on real footage.

One robotics CEO accuses another company of faking their launch video w/ CGI.

He’s probably wrong and certainly false in his certainty, but there’s a greater lesson.

Detecting CGI is an expert skill. Falling down an anomaly-nitpicking rabbit hole is a common trap that tends to confirm your biases.

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Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh

Sign me up, Bill.

The “runner’s high” is a scam concept that dangles false hope in front of me every time I run.

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“Hey Tacoma Narrows, hold my beer!”

I’d say it’s unreal

You: are your humanoid robots useful?

Company: we're making a million of them.

You: not my question.

Company: hey look, it's doing kung fu!

I agree with every word. It’s why I love signal boosting this story.