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Minsuk Chang

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Research Scientist @ Google Deepmind. Opinions are my own. minsukchang.com

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
gemma4 is really great. results comparable to sonnet 4.6 but costs pennies.
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Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
my side project budgets are basically $0, so the new gemini flex pricing in AI.dev is actually saving my life 😅 50% discount if you don't need instant responses! perfect for background agents, batch jobs, or evals while you sleep or go watch robot cage fights 💸👇 ai.google.dev/gemini-api/d...
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Joel Z Leibo @jzleibo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
New paper: “𝐀 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲” Agent-based models of social order work better when agents act by predictive pattern completion from prefix (culture/context) to suffix (action) than when they act through expected value maximization
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Joel Z Leibo @jzleibo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
To anyone encountering Moltbook this week and wondering about AI personhood, consciousness, sentience, etc---we published a very relevant paper in October: A Pragmatic View of AI Personhood. arxiv.org/abs/2510.26396
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Quentin Berthet @ AISTATS @qberthet.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🚨 🔬 PhD positions at Google DeepMind in France 🇫🇷 We are advertising Master Level Intern positions at Google DeepMind within our Frontier AI Unit. These could lead to co-advised PhD positions with Google DeepMind and French academic institutions. job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
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Stagiaire de niveau Master, France / Master Level Intern, France
Grenoble, France ; Paris, France
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Dan Liebling 🏳️‍🌈 @liebling.org · 03/02/2026
cool class alert @ UW: Prototyping with AI for Performing Arts docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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Flyer: Prototyping with AI for Performing Arts
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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Heads up! 🚨 Mark your calendar for next week! 🚨 More games to be released on the @kaggle.com Game Arena!!! 🎉🙌 See how foundations models perform at poker ♣️♥️♠️♦️ and werewolf 👫🐺!! And more Chess results too! 🧠♟️ 🤩 🤩 🤩
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
@waymo.bsky.social Waymo’s biggest missed opportunity is not being the official chauffeur for everyone under 16. Safe, tracked, and never gets tired of "Golden" on repeat. Let’s make it happen. Waymo Junior.
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
opendoor, opentable, openai, what else are we going to open?
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Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🙌 Join the Gemini 3 global hackathon for early API access to build next-gen apps! We’ve got $100k in prizes + funding opportunities for the best builds. If you've yearned to start a passion project or to kick the tires on an idea for a company, there's never been a better time. gemini3.devpost.com
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
If you're are an HCI student navigating the industry job market, here’s my unsolicited take on why you should stop defending 'human-centeredness'. I’m rarely right. Read at your own risk: minsukchang.com/blog/2026-01...
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Google Open Source @opensource.google · 09/01/2026
People wanted our Open Source Organizations starter pack to include many projects, so we decided to give them their own starter pack. go.bsky.app/HvKFRKa
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Open Source projects
Join the conversation
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Recently went to Goodwill for a ceramic planter. Left with Michelle Obama's autobiography for $2 instead (there were three of them???) Still looking for the planter...
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
All this just to remind the timeline that Eintracht Frankfurt is the greatest football club on earth. I will die on this hill. 🦅✌️ #SGE
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
In the month of December, Seattle (where I live now) gets 52.9 hrs of sunlight on average, London (where my employer is) gets 52 hrs, Frankfurt (where I grew up) gets 41. Seoul gets 152.6 hrs, more than all three put together.
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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Please welcome Google's Open Source efforts to Blue Sky at @opensource.google!
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Okay people. I've achieved Nobel Trajectory on this Tenure-track game (tenuretrack.vercel.app/game2d.html) Kangwook (kangwooklee.com) made. This is going into my faculty application if I ever apply.
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Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Gentle reminder for the RL folks out there: RLC 2026 → Montreal 🇨🇦 (Aug 16–19) Abstract: Mar 1 | Submission: Mar 5 (AOE) | rl-conference.cc/callforpaper... Looking forward to receiving your submission!
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RLJ | RLC Call for Papers
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I started a crowdsourced meta-project to list all the other crowdsourced mathematical research projects that are currently active and seeking participants: mathoverflow.net/questions/50...
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List of crowdsourced math projects actively seeking participants
I believe that with the advent of modern online collaboration platforms (such as Github), proof assistant languages (such as Lean), and (potentially) AI tools, there are many emerging opportunities...
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Trying this place again.
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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally. Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2/ric... From almost 25 yrs ago!
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Utterance Is Place Enough | Frances Richard
Mapping conversation
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Come be our colleague in the robotics and embodied intelligence center at NYU! 🔷 Professor in Robotics / Embodied AI (Open Rank) apply.interfolio.com/176977 🔷 Faculty Fellow in Robotics / Embodied AI apply.interfolio.com/177077
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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Physical Intelligence has a recipe for real world RL on top of VLAs and it looks impressive: www.pi.website/blog/pistar06
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A VLA that Learns from Experience
A method for training our generalist policies with RL to improve success rate and throughput on real-world tasks.
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I'm hiring a student researcher for next summer at the intersection of MARL x LLM. If you're a phd student with experience in MARL algorithm research, please apply and drop me an email so that I know you've applied! www.google.com/about/career...
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Student Researcher, PhD, Winter/Summer 2026 — Google Careers
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Hundreds of hours of European driving data from NVIDIA! 1700 hours total
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 18/09/2025
Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS! 1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622 2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Our NeurIPS submission arxiv.org/abs/2502.08938 did not get in, but it's one of my favorite papers and I think one of the better papers we've ever put out so I want to highlight it
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Reevaluating Policy Gradient Methods for Imperfect-Information Games
In the past decade, motivated by the putative failure of naive self-play deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in adversarial imperfect-information games, researchers have developed numerous DRL algorithm...
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Edward Grefenstette @egrefen.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Do you have a PhD (or equivalent) or will have one in the coming months (i.e. 2-3 months away from graduating)? Do you want to help build open-ended agents that help humans do humans things better, rather than replace them? We're hiring 1-2 Research Scientists! Check the 🧵👇
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Bret Victor @worrydream.com · 29/06/2025
Archive of archives. worrydream.com/Links2025/
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Links 2025
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luokai @luok.ai · 26/06/2025
Claude Code, meet your rival: Gemini CLI 🔥🚀 Google just unleashed Gemini 2.5 Pro at the command line—free, open-source (Apache 2.0) , 1-million-token brain baked right into your terminal. Chat, code, search, script—all with zero tab fatigue.
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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Don't have a robot? Try our newest Gemini Robotics on-Device VLA in simulation! Or become a trusted tester and tune and adapt the model yourself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVMY...
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Gemini Robotics on-device in simulation
YouTube video by Google DeepMind
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I really think ACs can be completely replaced by LLMs. Finding the right reviewers, sending (reminder) emails, nudging them for discussions, summarizing reviews, etc... The only issue is that LLM calls are expensive, whereas human ACs work for free because we all volunteer. Sigh.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Hiring a postdoc to scale up and deploy RL-based planning onto some self-driving cars! We'll be building on arxiv.org/abs/2502.03349 and learn what the limits and challenges of RL planning are. Shoot me a message if interested and help spread the word please! Full posting to come in a bit.
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Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play
Self-play has powered breakthroughs in two-player and multi-player games. Here we show that self-play is a surprisingly effective strategy in another domain. We show that robust and naturalistic drivi...
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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 22/06/2025
I work in the best university in the world, less than 3 hours from my rural hometown, yet superstar students travel here from all over the world… if we keep treating them badly, will centers of excellence move elsewhere? "If my kids excel, will they move away?" jeffreybigham.com/blog/2025/wh...
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In Pittsburgh, I’m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the top computer science school in the world. I’ve also worked in various large technology companies, who have offices in Pittsburgh to connect with and employ Carnegie Mellon faculty and students.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
👀This is impressive: Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work. The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.
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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Yes!! Originally, generative ML modeled a joint distribution, e.g., P(X,Y), whereas discriminative ML modeled a conditional distribution, e.g., P(Y|X). A famous paper by Ng and Jordan (papers.nips.cc/paper_files/...) compared naive Bayes (generative) to logistic regression (discriminative). 1/
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On Discriminative vs. Generative Classifiers: A comparison of logistic regression and naive Bayes
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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🤖💡 Are LLMs really developing social behaviors—or just reproducing familiar patterns from training? In our new paper, @pettertornberg.com and I take a closer look at recent claims of emergent conventions in AI and offer a different perspective... 🧵
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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Weave household robot cleaning up. This is teleop, but it's a really cool first step towards a commercial product.
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Pierre-Yves Oudeyer @pyoudeyer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Humans' ability to invent their own games & goals is at the core of open-ended learning. Understanding and modeling computationally how they do it would be enlightening to understand better human cognition and build open-ended AI Great step in this direction in new paper by Guy Davidson et al.
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
TPUs are amazing.
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
TIL Canada has its own professional men's basketball league and Vancouver has a team.
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Matej Balog @matejbalog.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Announcing AlphaEvolve, our new LLM coding agent that has - made new scientific discoveries - discovered algorithms that are now deployed at Google (in Gemini, Transformers, TPU hardware design & data centers) Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo... White paper: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...
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AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
New AI agent evolves algorithms for math and practical applications in computing by combining the creativity of large language models with automated evaluators
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David Pfau @davidpfau.com · 09/05/2025
The idea of "AI alignment" grew out of a community that thought you could solve morals like it was a CS problem set. Nice to see a more nuanced take.
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Jun-Yan Zhu @junyanz.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
[1/2] We've released the code for LegoGPT. Our autoregressive model generates physically stable and buildable designs from text prompts by integrating physics laws and assembly constraints into LLM training and inference. Code: github.com/AvaLovelace1... Website: avalovelace1.github.io/LegoGPT/
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Coach Pop, please write a book.
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Stan Bileschi @bileschi.com · 03/05/2025
:thumbs_up: robhorning.substack.com/p/contentment
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Contentment
"social media" has always been oxymoronic
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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
How do language models generalize from information they learn in-context vs. via finetuning? In arxiv.org/abs/2505.00661 we show that in-context learning can generalize more flexibly, illustrating key differences in the inductive biases of these modes of learning — and ways to improve finetuning. 1/
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is a fantastic oral history of the last 10 years of NLP and AI. www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...
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When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine
Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.
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Minsuk Chang @minsuk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Should I get an Amazon Astro?
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