Jonathan Balloch

I mostly tweet about #ai, #robots, #science, @packers...
Senior SWE at @Anduril | Ph.D. Robotics @GeorgiaTech | M.S Robotics @Penn
Thought/opinions are mine

[Tom Ringstrom 🦡 @no_reward_for_u]

World models are hot these days, but I don't think JEPA and other efforts will really go all the way. People should take cues from Rodriguez-Sanchez, Allen, and Konidaris.

https://t.co/DZknICSGPp

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

That's how parts get inspected! 🪡

The pace is ridiculous.

Imagine people still doing this instead of machines.

Renishaw system is one of the biggest shifts in coordinate-measuring machines (CMMs).

Instead of moving the entire machine to capture each point, REVO uses a 5-axis scanning head that collects data through rapid angular motion.

Combined with automated probe and stylus changes, the system can handle complex geometries and full surface scans that traditionally required slow, point-by-point probing.

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[Jonathan Balloch @JonathanBalloch]

@animesh_garg @CSProfKGD @ylecun strong agree that the lack of constraint on time scales here is an oversight

[Jonathan Balloch @JonathanBalloch]

@tolga_birdal @tdietterich @arxiv "hallucinated references" didn't really exist in until LLMs, so that premise doesn't make sense. Arxiv has made authors responsible in the past, but that was clearly on the authors before LLMs. This policy clarifies that LLM mistakes are also on the authors.

[Jonathan Balloch @JonathanBalloch]

@JustinAngel @tdietterich @arxiv strong disagree. Imagine this is implemented as an automatic but naive filter (e.g. literally the examples in the tweet). this would still make Arxiv WAY better, even if it was easily circumvented. Deceptive actors isn't the problem, slop is

[Jonathan Balloch @JonathanBalloch]

Excellent news

[Thomas G. Dietterich @tdietterich]

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

[Jonathan Balloch @JonathanBalloch]

@sundarpichai based as hell to respond to this

[Jonathan Balloch @JonathanBalloch]

@guy_pharm @sanandreafault damn til

[Olivier Duchenne @inventorOli]

Robostral can now follow natural language instructions. It responds to voice commands and pointing. It is also getting better at fine-grained manipulation where precise force control matters. It generalizes to new objects and tasks not present in the training data.

[jules @juleslogs]

lowkey one of the best things about ML right now is how many legit research paths exist outside the traditional PhD route

- MATS
- OpenAI Residency
- Anthropic Fellows
- DeepMind Student Researcher
- ML Collective
- FAR. AI
- Mila
- INSAIT
- EleutherAI
- Redwood Research
- Apart Research
- Encode
- AI2, LAION
- Berkeley BAIR
- Stanford SAIL
- MIT CSAIL
- Vector Institute
- HuggingFace also quietly has some insanely strong open source contributors btw

stupidly exciting time to be in ML if you genuinely like building and researching things

[Kosta Derpanis (sabbatical in Zurich) @CSProfKGD]

You can thank @oier_mees later 😂

[Jonathan Balloch @JonathanBalloch]

@googlegemma wait holy shit you guys are making a new Coral???? I thought y'all forgot you guys made that!!

[Jonathan Balloch @JonathanBalloch]

@googlegemma wait holy shit you guys are making a new Coral???? I thought y'all forgot you guys made that!!

[Lucas Maes @lucasmaes_]

Would you like to join the research effort on JEPA and World Models easily?

After a full year of hard work, we’re excited to finally release stable-worldmodel:

an open-source, scalable platform built to accelerate JEPA & World Model research!

📄: https://t.co/gnxGvens5A

[Siqiao Huang @KnightNemo_]

In the last couple of months, we have witnessed significant advances in Industry-scale World Models. Yet, for the broader community, the gap between reading about these models and deploying them remains disappointingly wide.

Today we're releasing Nano World Models: a minimalist, batteries-included repo for advancing world model science.
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[趣味開発をするアライグマ @arai01robo]

Robotics Engineer in 2026….

[Jonathan Balloch @JonathanBalloch]

@themikegustin @Bencera Doesn't really count as disguised if the company's name is literally "ai slop" spelled backwards

[Jonathan Balloch @JonathanBalloch]

@jawwwn_ @PalmerLuckey Great take. And it's not just China

[PULKIT @Pulkit_Meen]

@karpathy Ai labs feels more like football clubs nowdays.........

[Jonathan Balloch @JonathanBalloch]

@lilianweng new blog post incoming?? :P