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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 · 25/01/2025
I think the bigger trap is to assume that a modular approach is the answer. For so many locomanip tasks the way we move our body depends so heavily on our environment + goals. I wouldn’t be satisfied to say “let RL handle task agnostic motion and just receive commands from a high level planner”.
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
For purely “move your body like this to location X” yeah I think current methods will scale. But once you start task conditioning (esp in human environments) I think it’s a lot less clear, both in terms of what behaviors we even want and how to specify them.
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C. Zhang w/o shitpost @chongzhang.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Collection of biped locomotion+ RL papers github.com/zita-ch/bipe...
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GitHub - zita-ch/bipedal-robot-learning-collection: Collection of high-quality robo learning papers for bipedal robots.
Collection of high-quality robo learning papers for bipedal robots. - zita-ch/bipedal-robot-learning-collection
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
can we please stop blaming squids for capitalism they are just solitary invertebrates and it's not their fault
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I’m using on shape as well since it’s free for me as a student!
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Thanks for the insights, I’ll try!
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
once I have the basic idea and a little confidence I’m pretty good at self directing new projects, but starting is hard
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
honestly I think what would help me most is a list of increasingly difficult things to make that require more and more tools etc the same way intro coding classes give you assignments that use more and more features of the language.
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
one of my New Year’s resolutions is to CAD more. I never learned in school but have futzed around with it a bit to make some simple designs to 3D print. would love any tips/recommendations/tutorials etc. that helped you learn!
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
meant to sleep 4 hours ago 🙃
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Ishan Khatri @ishan.khatri.io · 18/12/2024
Amazing post. One suggested addition, please please use data classes whenever possible instead of dictionaries. Raw dictionaries cannot be inspected without running the code and printing the keys. But data classes are basically self documenting! (And they can be typed).
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A short list of tips for keeping a clean, organized ML codebase for new researchers: eugenevinitsky.com/posts/quick-...
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Eugene Vinitsky
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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I love this town.
BE AWARE: SEALION (YOUNGSTER)

This little fella likes to jump out of the bushes at you! The sealion in question
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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 · 09/12/2024
anyways I went on a 13.4 mile walk today. maybe I will graduate soon.
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I always feel burn out creep up at the end of the semester and the “take basic care of yourself” special continues to work wonders
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I regret to report that sleeping, drinking water, going on long walks, and working out continues to work wonders for mental health
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I’m so glad I live during the period of human history in which we invented YouTube. I just watched a documentary about butter. I suppose this is another way of saying that I’m grateful to have turned in my last graded problem set ever!
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
didn’t feint after having my blood drawn everyone say yayyy
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
But now I have to actually think about what I want my robot to do womp womp Vs. Now I get to think about what I want my robot to actually do!!
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
me texting gab:
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I know a “prove you’re not a robot” test hate to see me coming
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Maia-core and flylist pilled
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Or is that Sprigatito
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Yoshi at the top of the food chain
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
there’s only two things in the world I’m flagrantly a snob about: bagels and latex formatting
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I suspect you’re right
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
proof that god loves us dot jpeg
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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
The base!
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
little known fact that finding a great coat to make your personality for a few years is one of the most important joys in life, and makes phenomenal lore.
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
of course there’s lots of work showing *which* data matters a lot, but at these scales, actual moderation is virtually impossible so you just have to trust that the source is high quality (eg Wikipedia)
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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 · 02/12/2024
I wont take his photo but whatever you’re imaging, I promise it looks even sillier irl!
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
there’s a man on my flight to Austin wearing three cowboy hats and a baseball cap all stacked on top of each other. I cannot make this up.
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Thankfully I realized within 2 mins so other that one very slightly overly crisped section of skin, disaster was averted lol
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
TIL broil and convection are not the same setting on the oven
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
perfect. as it should be. (sorry you hit your face tho! lol)
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
rats
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
cool. anyways, where can I find a club like that on this continent
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
nice, practically neighbors! my siblings are all in college one county over 😈
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
yeah! have we not discussed? I’m from Cary lol
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mcyoung 🏳️‍🌈 @mcy.gay · 26/11/2024
my most(?) popular article is probably the linker post. I'm not sure I've reposted this here yet: mcyoung.xyz/2021/06/01/l...
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Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Linker Script · mcyoung
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Neal Parikh @nparikh.org · 26/11/2024
If you're running into this problem (not having sufficient access to local public library books), the Queens Public Library offers out of state access for $50 (basically for this reason). I obviously haven't used it so don't know the details but worth looking into. qpl.libanswers.com/faq/375079
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I live out of state, but want access to eBooks. Do you offer a non-resident card? - ChatQPL
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
it’s good to leave cities sometimes to remind yourself what food is supposed to cost. take-out Chinese in my family’s town in NC is $10. as god intended.
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
literally reading a chapter from Seborg & Henson’s Nonlinear Process Control rn
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
say what you will about chemical engineers but they know a thing or two about nonlinearity I’ll tell you that
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
control theory has led me places I wouldn’t go with a gun (chemical engineering textbook)
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Kyle Morgenstein @kylem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
every morning I wake up and strive to invent a new sentence 😈
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