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Kyle Morgenstein

@kylem.bsky.social
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Full of childlike wonder. Building friendly robots. UT Austin PhD student, MIT ‘20.

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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
living in a city where the river never freezes >>>
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Rowing when the water is calm: smooth, elegant, like a ballerina Rowing when the water is choppy: arggh ye matey we be a pirate crew now 🏴‍☠️
Picture while rowing early in the morning with Austin draped in fog
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My Spotify wrapped. contains the Dune soundtrack. And the fucking Sonic the Hedgehog official video game sound track. What the fuck.
March was your
Atmospheric Fantasy
Soundtrack phase
You were really into artists like Hans Zimmer, Austin Wintory, and SEGA SOUND TEAM.
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I wish media did a better job framing “scaling laws” for lay folks. they’re empirical best-fit models on a log scale. 10% more data doesn’t help you, you need 10x.
Screenshot from article: “I asked OpenAI and Google about all this. They didn't respond. Another top Al startup, Anthropic, sent me a statement saying, "We haven't seen any signs of deviations from scaling laws."”
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
tale as old as time
text conversation. My friend asked if I had started the homework yet, I responded “OH SHOOT THATS TOMORROW”
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
you’re all RL researchers, you just don’t know it yet 😈
sickos ahaha yes meme
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
could 20 million skeeters be wrong? 🦋
the moment Bluesky acquired 20 million users
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
caught my first crab in years today 🥰🦀🚣
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
never bring a whiteboard to an after party and ask me a question about Langevin dynamics unless you’re prepared to get a lecture
me pointing to a white board giving a chalk talk at an after partypeople crowded around a white board where I’m giving a chalk talk
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Intro post- hi! I’m a 5th year PhD at UT Austin working on safety & interpretability for robots working in human spaces. Currently I mostly do locomotion, but am starting to do some fun (humanoid) locomanipulation stuff before I graduate in a few semesters. Excited to see so many cool people here!
Me “shaking hands” with a Spot robot dogMe next to Apptronik’s Apollo robot at Humanoids 2023Me next go a Unitree B2 and 1X Neo at Humanoids 2023Me posing with a Spot robot dog
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
POV: you’re rushing the slide and the coach makes sure everyone knows it
slightly blurry photo of the Austin skyline taken from a rowing shell at 540am. the coach’s boat is visible next to the oars. slightly overexposed, with some stars visible.
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
visiting gab this weekend… g-d knew I needed a win.
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
when you argue with me about control theory this is who you’re arguing with
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
I’ve made it far enough in my math career that we use numbers, English letters, Greek letters, and now playing card suits 😵‍💫 “oh yes just take the conjugate transpose of the ace of diamonds” - real “math” done by real “mathematicians”
Derivation of H-infinity controller using clubs, hearts, spades, and diamonds as placeholders for matrixes using during controller reconstruction
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #23,651! Who else remembers hellthread lol
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 07/05/2023
u rn
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 03/05/2023
sometimes if I’m feeling too based I’ll dab and T pose just to remind myself what it’s like to be cringe
dab (cringe)T pose (cringe)
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 27/04/2023
dogs out
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 27/04/2023
I hear this is how they’re deciding who to send invites to
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