Edouard Leurent

Nicolas Mansard: in locomotion / legged motion, when we worked on MPC (model predictive control) we were a team of 10 working on the robot and it barely worked. Now with RL (Reinforcement Learning) a single student can get a policy in 3 months, including training of the student.

who called it arson and not crime brûlée

My story “Death and the Gorgon” was voted best novella of 2024 by the readers of Asimov’s SF. You can read it online at the link below.

I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.

To the King’s Theatre, where we saw “Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure.

trying to read

For the Faint of Heart When you return from the asylum be sure to gaze at the trees covered in snow. When the train enters the tunnel ask the waiter for tea with milk. When in darkness take seriously the lesson of fluttering hands. If it is offered take the class they call Ornithography for it will teach you something about love. On the subject of love I have only a single observation— if you love a grapefruit, you cut it open and eat its flesh. Take my advice. Take it home to your husband or wife. Slip into bed. Turn off the lights.

On the subject of love / I have only a single observation— / if you love a grapefruit, you cut it open // and eat its flesh.

Ben Mirov

How to name your method: a comprehensive flow chart

Collected Poems: 1950–2012 Collected Poems: 1950–2012 [Rich, Adrienne, Rankine, Claudia] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Collected Poems: 1950–2012

1/5 A poem by Adrienne Rich, 1961, titled "Artificial Intelligence" dedicated to GPS (of Newell and Simon). Eerily prophetic and a great description of LLMs "when they make you write your poetry, later on". On page 136 of this book: www.amazon.com/dp/039328511...

Control problems are everywhere, but some applications of Reinforcement Learning are truly out of this world! 🌌

Our team's latest research @ Google DeepMind in #Science shows RL can improve sensitivity by 30-100x.

See how RL can accelerate cosmic discovery!👇 (Image #nanobanana)
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Bluesky’s gonna make me take the “we don’t know if its conscious” side of this debate isn’t it

The "AI is consuming all the water" thing is probably the first time many of us have had to watch a misconception form in real-time while being able to do little about it

Or great egret maybe?

Photo of a tv. Onscreen a woman holds an axe with a periodic table visible behind.

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.

(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

Dreams - Su Shi (trans. Arthur Waley) Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

Here's a poem by one of the old Chinese scholar bureaucrats that I think captures a certain Vibe very well

It is has not ceased to be weird that I can put Rilke’s First Elegy into Suno and get out a coherent 8 minute performance with music (can only do 3 here)

You might not like the interpretation, but it is genuinely amazing that this audio, with apparent emotion, is all 100% AI from the verses alone.

Démarchage téléphonique : les nouvelles règles Le démarchage pour la rénovation énergétique est désormais interdit

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It's #WorldGiraffeDay! 🦒 When we celebrate the tallest animal on the longest day (or night) and raise awareness about the threats faced by this incredible animal. For more beautiful giraffe images, check out our giraffe collection on #Flickr: www.flickr.com/search/?user... #StandTallForGiraffe

Vu dans le centre de Londres il y a 5 jours (mort)

Wow

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Utiliser les mesures du gyroscope pour estimer et corriger les rotations ?

Figure sorting packages with Helix, their end to end action model. The robot flips packages to scan them and flattens them out. The future is approaching fast

Good news, falcons have never been more free.

Bad news, anarchy is loosed upon the world, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned

Stochastic vs deterministic Lotka-Volterra: smooth theory vs randomness! Individual realizations (Gillespie algorithm) show populations can crash or go extinct despite stable deterministic cycles or equilibrium. Randomness changes everything! 🦌🐺🧪
Made with #python #numpy #scipy #matplotlib

Icarus Truth

Rest of comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/icarus-2

#smbc

The 5 Worst Jobs in Omelas (You Won’t Believe #1)

(Any resemblance to real events is purely coincidental)

Writing a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER with Gemini Diffusion and its Instant Edit tab

Excited to share what I've been up to: bringing text diffusion to Gemini!

Diffusion models are _fast_, and hold immense promise to challenge autoregressive models as the de facto standard for language modeling.

Y a-t-il un enregistrement, est-ce qu’on peut la retrouver quelque part ? 🙏