BangleWei

17 | Phl & NYC
Scout fund lead
AI Research at UPenn
Prev Robotics Swarm Research at UPenn Kumar Lab

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@nvonbodungen Big fan of your content, I'm about to enter a similar lifestyle of sprinting between campus and sf. Excited to see what you cook up!

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@nayelrmn @sama @OpenAI @charliewu @orchard_robots tuffest dudes in all of dmv

[Jitendra MALIK @JitendraMalikCV]

I want to offer some unsolicited advice to computer vision researchers jumping into robotics. Don't focus too much on VLMs, VLAs etc. That's fine, but the real action is at the sensorimotor level. Most of the open problems in robotics are in manipulation, which is about hand-object interaction, and contacts and forces are central. Proprioception and tactile sensing are as important as vision. Don't get seduced by cherry-picked demos. You can't do robotics without doing robotics.

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@pham_blnh fire

[aerospace action bronson @ohitstarik]

Being an engineer is just realizing how dumb you were 6 months ago every 6 months

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@thatboybenagain dude this is so cool

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@bercankilic @OfficialNathanY Run it

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@boxcardavid @westmagco @a16z @foundersfund @LuxCapital @MenloVentures Would you ever expand to sensors?

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@g_kasten any extra shirts👀

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@0baylor @czoob3 @cory aye!

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@cory So awesome!

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@v1hns @apify @awscloud @Box ayee lets go so proud dude!

[Igor Blink @IgorBlinkk]

nobody in my family has ever left kazakhstan. i just flew half the globe to SF.

a week ago, i was in my village of 2,000 people with 3mb/s internet.
a year ago, i didn't even know what a SAFE note was.

today, i'm 17, standing in sf with $300k raised from top investors to build my startup.

now please, go tell someone else that staying delusional is stupid.

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@amirlankalm Let's go brother!

[Deedy @deedydas]

If you feel like giving up, you must read this never-before-shared story of the creator of PyTorch and ex-VP at Meta, Soumith Chintala.

> from hyderabad public school, but bad at math
> goes to a "tier 2" college in India, VIT in Vellore
> rejected from all 12 universities for US masters despite 1420 on the GRE
> fuckit.jpg
> goes to the US anyway on a J-1 visa to CMU with no plan
> applies for masters (again) to 15 universities
> rejected from all except USC and with late admissions, NYU in 2010
> finds this guy called Yann LeCun (before he was famous)
> starts getting into open source
> rejected from all jobs including DeepMind
> only job is Amazon as test engineer
> his PhD mentor helps him get a job at a small startup (MuseAmi)
> rejected from DeepMind
> couldn't get H-1B because of J-1 home return issue; gets waiver through months of approval with USCIS and US State Dept
> very low on confidence
> In 2011/12 builds one of the fastest AI inference engines on phones
> rejected from DeepMind
> emailed Yann again and joins FAIR because of Torch7 open-source work
> scrapes through bootcamp at Facebook, struggling on an HBase task
> L8/L9 engineers at Facebook struggle to get ImageNet working
> figures out numerics / hyperparam issue as an L4
> first big win!
> FAIR goes well, runs 3 person torch7 team and co-creates PyTorch
> because of politics, management wants to shut down PyTorch
> cries-at-bar.jpg, literally
> eventually some people save PyTorch and it launches in 2017
> gets a EB-1 green card!
> the rest is history...

Think about that. He went to a tier 2 college. Was rejected from all Masters programs 2x. Rejected from every single job except Amazon test engineering. Rejected from DeepMind 3x. Nearly had his baby project shut down. Struggled with visa issues. After 12 years of failures (2005-17), he eventually rose to became a VP at Meta one of the most influential people in AI!

Soumith's story is one of resilience and he's living proof that no matter how down in the dumps you are, there's always hope.

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@rushilkukreja Rushil 2052

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@toriluoo @teaganyuen1

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@Krishna821448 @bosmeny @PerseusDefense @9Mothers @surtrdefense @ycombinator Launchers typically come with multiple interceptors, no? Are you referring to the capability of quad packing a launcher like ESSM in a VLS?

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@seanchansato @UWaterloo @openmind_agi dude this is so sick!

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