Cynthia Matuszek

Robotics, machine learning, and human-robot interactions researcher. Faculty at UMBC. Making robots useful in human spaces. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈

[umbccsee @umbccsee]

UMBC's Carnegie Classification is now R1, the highest category: doctoral universities with very high research activity, aka Research 1. #UMBC is ranked as one of only 146 R1 U.S. institutions, including 107 public & 39 private universities. #R1 #research https://t.co/6WzrLljHRO

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

@GhassemiPayam @aks1812 Turns out it was a miscommunication with the RA-L submission process. A rather frustrating one, but still a miscommunication.

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

Our #ICRA2021 paper notification came with a sheet of blank reviews (but wasn't desk rejected). No reviewer content at all. Did this happen to anyone else? PaperPlaza error?

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

@EdtechDemo @OneNoteEDU Wrong Twitter handle. I am not involved with OneNote.

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

@Randomness We switched to 1password when lastpass was acquired. It's not free, but they are upfront about costs and don't seem to be in it to maximize profit no matter what (at least not yet). This may or may not meet your needs, but $0.02.

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

@supersat Maybe Australia thought that if a company known for deceit, privacy invasion, and litigation couldn’t handle even the possibility of being slightly regulated, they could do without. I doubt they’re crying.

[Marshini Chetty @ineffablicious]

New NSF fellowship for domestic graduate students from diverse backgrounds!

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

@Randomness I think your choices are wise. However, when you eventually do find yourself as far along as DC, consider taking a day or two here—only another 45 minutes to 2 hours (depending on the time of day).

[Leah Greenberg says NO KINGS ❌👑 @Leahgreenb]

OK just to be clear: if I say "we must crack down on serial killers" and you say "why are you launching this thinly veiled personal attack on me" I'm gonna have questions

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

Style tips. 1: Unless you are actually on a first-name basis, "Harris" > "Kamala" (unless you consistently use Donald, Mike and Joe). 2: to include a discussion of wardrobe choices in a news article, the correct way to handle it is: maybe don't.

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

@Randomness Good luck!

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

Every time I get a rejection because "Oh, this isn't robotics, it's got all this language stuff," I realize I'm surprised because I thought we were past that. The triumph of hope over experience is a wondrous thing.

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

@kaflurbaleen Me too! ...I’m guessing it doesn’t help much

[Willie Agnew | [email protected] @willie_agnew]

Buried in the recent trillion parameter language model paper is how the dataset to train it was created. Any page that contained one of these words was excluded: https://t.co/IwvQIEeMkC Two sample banned words: "twink" and "sex"

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

@dlowd Possibly the problem has more to do with my brain’s bookshelf contents than my logic.

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

@dlowd I struggled with the representation and I’m not sure it’s right, so: “and then there was one”

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

@dlowd The first is “Number the Stars,” arguably cardinality is a stretch there. The circle is from linear temporal logic, and means “true during the next timestep.” (@HadasKressGazit would know if I got it right - my LTL isn’t great.)

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

@dlowd |{the stars}|

{ x | ⚬x ∧ ∃!x}

try:
22
except:
pass

[Cynthia Matuszek @cmat]

I discovered recently that some gmail filters that had been working fine, stopped working fine. They have in fact have been hiding messages, which is rather the precise opposite of fine. I don't know what they "improved" exactly, but if you rely on filters, check them. 😠