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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This is fun to say, but I think it's more fear than grandiosity. These guys worry they're going to get eaten by the next wave. Kodak was an extremely strong business until it wasn't. You can argue that they over-index on that fear, but it's not completely irrational.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
100% physicists don't own those words.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Yah! Turing award BAYBAY!
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Yes we do, it's MATRICES!
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Same energy when they used to talk about mocap for VFX films. "Look! Tom Hanks just danced around with all this goofy stuff attached to him, and the computers turned it into movie magic!!!" But it turns out a crew of 80 people worked for nine months to animate it using the mocap as loose reference.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Bat Garcon
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"...what this book presupposes is..."
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
That robot looks like it wants to fight me.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
One dollar Bob!
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Yeah community correction, but also kind of like "hey guys, have you noticed how exploration in language space is totally cursed?"
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
So I think you're kind of right, but I also think some people needed to be told that, so maybe it's still valuable?
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A drawing of a frog at the bottom of a messy whiteboard saying "I have been presented with a world that I am incapable of fully comprehending"
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I love the phrase "vibe physics"
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I think there is also a sense that the AI is outside your normal social system, so you know you can talk to it without having to worry that it's going to tell somebody else what you said. It's more private.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Don't worry you'll figure it out
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Seriously, this group is world-class (literally no peers) at converting the "find out" part of the phrase "f*ck around and find out" into a long term strategic advantage.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
You don't know what that crow's been through.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
1,000,000%
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The grey around the edges is a Walmart parking lot.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Yeah, makes sense, I don't have a great sense of the scale of these things.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Yeah, I guess I just mentioned it because there has been talk about building new power for rapid expansion of AI datacenters. But also, it's telling that it went from zero to video games in a pretty short amount of time! Unless we think it will all blow up soon, expect a lot of growth!
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
If we had the brown out problem solved would it meaningfully change the graph? Is electricity cost/availability a bottleneck for many industries here besides giant AI, which has only been a thing for like 18 months? (Genuine questions, don't know the answer)
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Sorry Chris, but that is not a great conclusion to draw from this. China has 4x the population, was starting from a place of much less development, and their economy is manufacturing so of course they are adding new generation. What would the US have done with more electricity production over 20yrs?
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL telescope!
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A hot tub is the complement of a boat.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A big fan of Sean Luke's Essentials of Metaheuristics, so I picked up a physical copy for the office. If you want an introductory cookbook of gradient-free algorithms, this is a great way to go. Free online at: cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/m...
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Isn't there a reasonable interpretation: we should try to get our student evaluation scores at time t+1 (next year) to be better than the department average at time t (this year)?
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I feel like something called the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" should be about building a statue of former president Clinton.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Yeah I was going to say, how is this possible in a model with dropout?
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
In all honesty, it's kind of wild to expect one algorithm to outperform on all these things simultaneously. Like if I reviewed a paper that was significantly better on just one of these categories, I would probably accept it?
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Just got back from #AAMAS2025. Great conference! Highly recommended! Very high density of cool material!
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
So the cat lost?
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
At AAMAS in Detroit this coming week. Ping me if you want to talk about one or more agents!
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Hey, I don't think we've met, but I'm new to this area (first time at AAMAS this year) and a big fan of the work. I'll try to find you and say hi at some point!
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Mid" is a slur for "middle author."
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The Klingon aesthetic
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I imagine that's what this thing will tell you to do www.wired.com/story/worldc...
wired.com
Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door
The ambitious identity-verification project Worldcoin, now called World, wants a future where humans are “orb-verified.”
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Retvrn. We used to be a civilization that made this! (gestures at a blurry image of a face) Now everywhere I look it's this! (gestures at abstract AI art)
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Art.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This has to be an end-run around an IRB at this point right? Like if you're a researcher with dodgy morals here's your play: 1. Get Mr. Beast excited about a new form of psychological torture. 2. Wait for him to turn it into a YouTube game show. 3. Interview the contestants. 4. Science?
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Isn't this a fundamental thing? Outside of special cases, once you have non-zero sum, or 3+ player games, evaluation seems kind of aspirational? Unless I guess you only care about properties of the entire population?
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Active area of research tho
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
What I really want is an AI assistant that keeps asking pedantic follow up questions without ever giving you an answer. AI Overview: "Is it the same elephant, or are they two different elephants?" AI Overview: "Is one of the elephants on the moon? Mass is different than weight you know."
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Choose you words wisely, the puppetteers are a deadly serious people.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Haven't people been arguing that they are trying to get more regulation in the space in order to add more hoops for the competition to jump through?
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Was the garment was a single piece of cloth stretching to infinity in every direction with a single triangular hole, presumably for the wearer's head, cut out of the middle?
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
...but if worst case events are rare and decorrelated among members of the population, that seems like a much weaker source of evolutionary pressure to address those cases.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I would think this must depend on how correlated worst case events are across members of the same species, right? Like if there are occasionally environmental worst-case scenarios that affect everybody at the same time, those species would go extinct if they couldn't handle those...
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Regardless of the complaints about hype (which I agree with) I like seeing a single high-throughput simulator with good rendering that (at least appears to) support flexible workflows. Even if it's not as fast as they claim, if it's a decently performant one-stop-shop, that's still a win for me.
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aaronwalsman.bsky.social @aaronwalsman.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Anybody used Taichi? Is it as magical as this Genesis simulator makes it look? Anybody have first hand experience on how it compares to Jax for building RL environments? Reading the docs, it looks like there are some design differences, but I'm curious about what it looks like in practice.
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