David Watkins

ChatGPT cannot handle generating paint by numbers

14.06.2025 16:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was featured on Dr. Waku's channel about the future of robotics. Really excited how this interview turned out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=89P2.... Thank you @drwaku.bsky.social for having me on.

10.01.2025 05:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Google links changed color? Is this design helpful?

27.12.2024 14:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BOI E-FILING

For those of you who own US businesses, don't forget to fill out your BOIR by January 1. It's a new requirement for all companies in the US that comes with potentially high fines. boiefiling.fincen.gov/fileboir

25.12.2024 15:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can the US Produce Lithium-Ion Batteries Domestically? Li-Bridge Outlines a Plan Li-Bridge released 5 broad objectives to accelerate a sustainable domestic lithium battery supply chain in North America. Is it feasible?

This report on a plan for Li-ion independence in the US from 2023 is a good read. www.resilinc.com/blog/li-brid... Clearly a lot we need to do as a country to build this infrastructure.

22.12.2024 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Apparently four year olds think that Black Friday is a holiday. They would be correct.

21.12.2024 21:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My pet peeve is shallow invocations of neuroscience to justify a heuristic ML algorithm

16.12.2024 08:06 — 👍 53    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Every Author as First Author We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author -- superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true e...

What a clever way to handle authorship conflicts. Fighting over contributions should not get in the way of doing great scientific work. I doubt this will fundamentally fix the problem, however I am happy the authors are starting a conversation. arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

16.12.2024 16:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Supreme Court allows investors' class action to proceed against microchip company Nvidia The Supreme Court is allowing a class-action lawsuit that accuses Nvidia of misleading investors about its past dependence on selling computer chips for the mining of volatile cryptocurrency to procee...

apnews.com/article/supr...

We are likely to see more of this as courts are forced to deal with more nuanced and complex AI issues. Researchers can do more to help inform legal experts about details related to these types of cases. Our highest court should be able to rule on these cases.

15.12.2024 16:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tried out a Sony 200mm-600mm + 2x Telephoto with my A7RV. Got decent results but room for improvement. Ended up taking some photos with my Tamron 28-200mm instead.

15.12.2024 05:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From the adventofcode community on Reddit: Discussion on LLM Cheaters Explore this post and more from the adventofcode community

www.reddit.com/r/adventofco... This is incredibly disheartening. Such a cool project should not be abused like this for internet points.

14.12.2024 21:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Teams - Hack & Build 2024 - Columbia University Robotics Club Teams having participated in this year's Hack and Build

I had the privilege of judging the Columbia Hack & Build Hackathon. Blown away by these teams! 🚀

Standouts:
🤖 Tilting maze with IMU
✍️ Voice-to-Braille app
👁️ Human-tracking robotic eye

Projects: www.columbiarobotics.club/hack-and-bui...

Huge thanks to CURC. The future of robotics is at Columbia! 🌟

03.12.2024 04:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have been known to grump from time to time

19.11.2024 22:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Distilling diverse vision foundation models to improve robot learning — The AI Institute Introducing Theia, a vision foundation model for robotics developed by researchers at The AI Institute. By using multiple off-the-shelf vision foundation models as a basis, Theia generates rich visual...

Excited to share our latest work presented at #CoRL2024: Theia, a vision foundation model that distills multiple VFMs to enhance robot learning. Theia achieves state-of-the-art performance with reduced training data and computational resources. Explore our paper here: theaiinstitute.com/news/theia

19.11.2024 21:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0