Rafael Grigoryan

Asymptotically approaching Ph.D. | AI engineer at an international big tech. Tweets about things around LLMs, neurotech, EEG, and BCI when not busy shitposting.

[Rafael Grigoryan @eegdude]

but of course it is

[Jürgen Schmidhuber @SchmidhuberAI]

Updating Section L3 of the tech report: LeCun's 2022 "JEPA" family is actually the 1992 PMAX family which he failed to cite.
https://t.co/44T2ME4Sw9

[Kevin Wood | Robotics & AI @KWRoboticsAI]

Rotary inverted pendulum demo from Pulsar at ICRA 2026. Previously I tried the RL way on my YouTube, but here they show some comparison between classical methods like LQR and modern ways using RL. While classical way should easily work for such a simple system, what makes this single actuator and single encoder setup so nice is the simplicity. You learn the same concepts to deploy it on a humanoid. At least the general idea.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

If you want to go viral in longevity world:

Go do a long run with a VO2max test at the end

Your VO2max will suck.

Then eat lots of candy, binge Netflix for a few days... re-do the VO2max test.

You'll see a huge jump. Tweet that netflix + candy made you 20 years younger.

[Rafael Grigoryan @eegdude]

2 and 3 do unfortunately seem somewhat negatively correlated, but trust me, there are enough people that tick both boxes

[Rafael Grigoryan @eegdude]

Once again computer scientists show total inability to comprehend that there are other fields of research. Seriously, this is like a disease or something

[Jon Barron @jon_barron]

My advice to PhD students in 2026:
1) If your advisor hasn't logged >100 hours in a modern agentic IDE, stop listening to your advisor.
2) Write your next paper *inside your codebase* as a .tex (with 80 char word-wrap). Force your advisor to read and make edits inside the IDE.

[Rafael Grigoryan @eegdude]

Advice to PhD students in 2026:
1. Make sure that you have a real interest in the topic you are researching.
2. Make sure that the advisor has good publication record and connections in the industry (if applicable)
3. (Crucial) Make sure that the advisor is not a total dick

[Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau @jm_alexia]

People using non-IDE text editors were once considered elite programmers, but now if you don't delegate everything to an agentic IDE, you are considered the idiot. 🤷‍♀️

[Rafael Grigoryan @eegdude]

@korvix_ashi @bdulaeva А откуда парез

[Rafael Grigoryan @eegdude]

I sometimes think about that fun paper about Donkey Kong by @KordingLab
I wonder if the premise would hold up with modern sufficiently large model.

[Takayuki Miyamoto / 宮本 峻志, PhD @TakaM0331]

Excited to present our rat exoskeleton at ICRA 2026!

We developed what we believe is the first rodent exoskeleton designed to support the entire rat hindlimb (thigh, shank, and foot).

Our goal is to provide a new robotic platform for neurorehabilitation research.

#ICRA2026

[Rafael Grigoryan @eegdude]

JEPA, GEPA & NEPA

[Niels Rogge @NielsRogge]

NEPA has now been added here:

Check the evals at the bottom to compare to other models 👀

[Neural Computation Lab @NeuralCompLab]

Neuropixels Opto is out! 🎉🥳🍾🚨 Congratulations to a fantastic team!

https://t.co/yrOSDmV4wa

[Neuromatch @neuromatch]

Computational Behaviour launches July 2027! 🤓 A fully remote two-week course, open to participants worldwide.

➡️ Learn more and get involved: https://t.co/cRGgCzjwdK

#ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience #OpenScience #Neuromatch #ConnectedMinds

[Rafael Grigoryan @eegdude]

@kaapyth0n @tagir_valeev Разработка в 2к26 это когда спорят по пол-дня клод с кодексом, но деньги почему-то обоим платишь за это ты

[Rafael Grigoryan @eegdude]

@holodnice 🫂

[Tobias Fischer @TobiasFischer11]

Do 3D reconstruction transformers really need a billion parameters, or are most of those layers just doing the same thing over and over?

Introducing Déjà View: a single transformer block, looped K times, that matches or beats models 8–10× its size with lower compute. 🧵

[Rafael Grigoryan @eegdude]

@MDereviannykh а мне папа из Америки опус 5 привез, он еще лучше

[Rafael Grigoryan @eegdude]

@PessoaBrain @KordingLab Pubpeer mostly works (probalbly, because it's not too popular yet)

[Rafael Grigoryan @eegdude]

If he defines consiousness mechanistically as a feature of computational complexity and fitness for particular purpose (close to what Tononi does), then this conclusion can't be erroneous given this definition - it is as good as any other. Nobody knows what consiousness is anyway

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

Two things have happened with Richard Dawkins here with his claim that the AI known as Claude is "conscious".

1. He's fallen for the Eliza Effect, first diagnosed in 1966. "A psychological phenomenon where humans anthropomorphise computer programs, projecting understanding, empathy, and intelligence onto them."

2. He has a mechanistic view of consciousness anyway. He frequently employs machine and computational metaphors to explain human consciousness and biology. He views the brain as a "complex computer" and humans as "survival machines" or "gene machines".

So his framing belief system can only lead to his erroneous conclusion - that he and the machine are both conscious.

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

make kids or build robots, or both