Andrei Pitkevich

[Chris Barber @chrisbarber]

I asked people: "which robotics labs and startups have the highest talent density?"

28 votes: Physical Intelligence (@hausman_k, @svlevine, @chelseabfinn, @adnan_esm, @brian_ichter, @QuanVng, @lachygroom)

18 votes: Generalist (@peteflorence, @andyzengineer, Andrew Barry)

9 votes: Sunday (@tonyzzhao, @chichengcc)

6 votes: Skild AI (@deepakpathak, @gupta_abhinav_)

4 votes: Dyna (@Lindon_Gao, @YorkYang5050, @JasonMa2020)

3 votes: Bracket Bot (@sincethestudy)
3 votes: OpenAI Robotics (@model_mechanic, @PengchuanZ, @ChengshuEricLi)

2 votes: 1X (@BerntBornich)
2 votes: The Bot Company (@kvogt, @pariljain, @lukeholoubek)
2 votes: Figure (@adcock_brett)
2 votes: Genesis (@zhou_xian_, @theo_gervet, @johnsonwang0810)
2 votes: Prometheus (@JeffBezos, @vik_bajaj, @sherjilozair, @wgussml, Alex Graves)
2 votes: Robocurve (@chooi_jeq)
2 votes: Tesla (@elonmusk)
2 votes: Weave Robotics (@kaandogrusoz, @evan_wineland)

People couldn't pick a company they work at or founded. Disclosure: I'm a small investor in Physical Intelligence. I didn't vote.

[Andrei Pitkevich @_andrew_pt]

@RotekSong Nice. Is the arm controlled in joint space (without IK)?

[Andrei Pitkevich @_andrew_pt]

@frankzydou Nice result! Was the robot controlled in joint space or Cartesian space?

[Andrei Pitkevich @_andrew_pt]

@powerpig @fchollet Why not? I can imagine the gap closing and even a gap inversion occurring.

[Christian Szegedy @ChrSzegedy]

What are your favorite science/eng/ math/history etc infotainment youtube channels?

Here are a few I enjoyed (in random order):

3blueonebrown, Cool Worlds , Anton Petrov, Veritasium, @MLStreetTalk, Atlas Pro, RealLifeLore, Invicta, ReligionForBreakfast, CaspianReport, SciShow

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

There's no programming like differentiable programming #CodingIn6Words

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Nick Lane's books are So. Good. https://t.co/zyw0GYpmdu

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

I wonder how many people who criticize Jordan Peterson actually read his work. Instead of censoring books, let's instead read a lot, think deeply, and keep an open mind.

[Andrei Pitkevich @_andrew_pt]

@lexfridman @elonmusk Lex, please ask him what ideology should replace humanism.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Masks work. A fantastic, yes fantastic voyage infographic shows you how ★. If the data and evidence weren't enough, seeing is believing
https://t.co/zuegTi7TYy

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

What an awesome animation..

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Due to my journey through Dostoevksy, Camus, Hesse, Kafka, Nietzsche, Palahniuk, Hemingway, Kerouac, Orwell, I've never read the sci-fi classics. I'm working to change that. My current list:
- Foundation (Asimov)
- Dune (Herbert)
- Snow Crash (Stephenson)
- Ender's Game (OSC)

[Andrei Pitkevich @_andrew_pt]

@Kuldeep__Arts @lexfridman It's unavoidable.
Treatment of diseases is only the first stage. The next steps can only be stopped by a powerful global organization that does not exist yet.

[Andrei Pitkevich @_andrew_pt]

@Kuldeep__Arts @lexfridman Nice list. Maybe add some achievements in genetics (customizable children).

[Andrei Pitkevich @_andrew_pt]

@abhi1thakur Titanic. It's pretty easy to test new techniques.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

If you zoom out a bit, DNA is a filesystem, and evolution is the computer that operates on it. Environmental fitness (the sum of all interactions of all life forms with their environment and each other) is its input data.

Life as computation

[Sasha Rush @srush_nlp]

Most important ML projects (objective truth ™️, AGI certified)

🥉 🔥 pytorch
🥈 🤗 transformers
🥇 💪 https://t.co/TPdsAtZvKi

[Andrei Pitkevich @_andrew_pt]

@viglovikov I used Xiaomi glasses. But the "Night Light Settings" (windows 10) turned out to be much better.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Pretty amazing stuff.
Full real-time hand pose tracking from 4 monochrome cameras. It uses ConvNets, of course.
Soon available as a firmware update for the Oculus Quest.

[MachinePix @MachinePix]

A Hoberman switch pitch ball.