Marc Lanctot

Marc Lanctot

@sharky6000.bsky.social

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, interested in multiagent reinforcement learning, game theory, games, and search/planning. Lover of Linux ๐Ÿง, coffee โ˜•, and retro gaming. Big fan of open-source. #gohabsgo ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ For more info: https://linktr.ee/sharky6000

8,761 Followers 425 Following 2,182 Posts Joined Dec 2023
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@arxiv.bsky.social is separating from Cornell, it seems. They will be hiring a CEO with a salary of 300k.

Reddit thread: www.reddit.com/r/math/s/kpZ...

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Also it 4096 bytes ๐Ÿ˜œ

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Machine Yearning (4096-byte album) YouTube video by lftkryo

The full album is on YouTube!

That first song is called "Division by Zero" ๐Ÿ˜

youtu.be/74d_Ter3HcU?...

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Meta Delays Rollout of New A.I. Model After Performance Concerns

I also saw this yesterday, too: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/t...

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We Automated RL Environment Engineering for $10 RL environment simulation eats 50-90% of training wall-clock for specialist RL policies. Coding agents can translate them automatically with no sim-to-sim gap.

open.substack.com/pub/sethkart...

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Machine Yearning - The First 10 Minutes with My New #commodore 64 ultimate! ๐Ÿฅฐ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต YouTube video by Marc Lanctot

I've done enough machine learning this week. It's time for some...

*Machine Yearning*!

๐Ÿฅฐ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต

Discovered this awesome track in the first 10 minutes with my new #Commodore 64 Ultimate!

youtube.com/shorts/Ql6d9...

@chriswolfvision.bsky.social @david-p-reichert.bsky.social

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Yeah and I worry a lot because the more people around you boost their output with AI, the more incentive or pressure you have to use it yourself to compete. Which creates a vicious cycle. I have avoided it for not much cost up to now but it's clear that I can't do this forever...

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I am definitely keeping my distance because I don't like being too dependent on early technologies. It's starting to get really tough being the person who's slow, but the fast lane still feels too chaotic and unnatural to me. The pressure is become too high, I may have to drink the Kool Aid soon ๐Ÿฅน

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'AI Brain Fry' Is Making Workers More Exhausted and Less Productive New Study Suggests According to a new study published by the 'Harvard Business Review,' AI tools are making some workers mentally exhausted, developing what researchers are calling 'AI brain fry.'

And this:

people.com/ai-brain-fry...

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Two things worth reading..

This:
bsky.app/profile/aaro...

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Right there with you. In my case I feel similarly about coding with AI (which-- these days-- is a really hard place to be). I haven't even legit tried with actual research because I know I won't like it for the same reasons you list.

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Won't be able to play until.the weekend ๐Ÿ˜ซ

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Nice! Did you use USB game pads? Wondering if I have to set anything up for that. I ordered two retro joysticks but I guess they are coming separately.. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ˜…

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How AI is changing the nature of mathematical research What machine learning theorists learned using AI agents to generate proofs โ€” and what comes next.

Michael @mkearnsphilly.bsky.social ) and I wrote a blog post about our experiences using AI for research, and our thoughts on what these developments will mean for research, publication, and education: www.amazon.science/blog/how-ai-...

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@chriswolfvision.bsky.social

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I've got mail! ๐Ÿ“ฆ

From.... #Commodore! ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ•น

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๐ŸŽจ Introducing the TMLR Beyond PDF Editor, a web-based editor for creating Beyond PDF submissions!

๐Ÿš€ Zero setup + live preview + download & import.

๐Ÿค Compatible with local compilation.

๐ŸŽ‰ Thanks to Hugo Larochelle, @gautamkamath.com, Naila Murray, Nihar B. Shah, and Laurent Charlin!

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10 years ago, Google DeepMindโ€™s AlphaGo became the first program to beat a world champion at Go โ€” a game with more moves than atoms in the universe. โšซโšชโœจ

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RPG Tabletops - AVV - Horizontal 1 YouTube video by RPG Tabletops

There was a few threads from a while back talking about parents running RPG campaigns for kids.

One thing that helps me is not having to design the adventures myself (I loved Dungeon mag back in the day).

I just picked up 150 adventures for $30 USD.

Check out this sale! youtu.be/WZCnCNgZx2g?...

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Humans can learn bimodal priors in complex sensorimotor behaviour #ProcB #Neuroscience #Cognition royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Learning Montezuma's Revenge from a Single Demonstration We propose a new method for learning from a single demonstration to solve hard exploration tasks like the Atari game Montezuma's Revenge. Instead of imitating human demonstrations, as proposed in othe...

This week's #PaperILike is "Learning Montezumaโ€™s Revenge from a Single Demonstration" (Salimans & Chen, 2018).

1 demo + known world model = very natural and still under-explored problem setting.

PDF: arxiv.org/abs/1812.03381

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Just a heads up, saw this on the web site. (I am wondering the same.)

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+1 great journal, please consider volunteering for the role of Action Editor at TMLR!

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Waiting for deepseek v4

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Omg I literally laughed out loud ๐Ÿคฃ, hilarious use of AI-modified meme, well done sir!

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๐Ÿ“ฃ Reinforcement Learning Summer School is returning to Milan in 2026!

Co-organized with @ellisunitmilan.bsky.social & designed for Master's and PhD students on RL theory, multi-agent systems, RL & LLMs, real-world applications...

๐Ÿ“ Milan ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
๐Ÿ“… 3-12 June
โฐ Apply by 27 March
๐Ÿ”— https://bit.ly/4b2Plhp

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Are AI models effective collaborators, or mere assistants awaiting your next command? (Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2602.24188)

To find out, we make AI collaborate with itself, in private information games: tasks that require sharing private information, like this chess board ordering task.

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