James Foster

Control Theory & Robotics.... with a bit of armchair rugby analysis thrown in. Formerly @ Imperial College, University of Sheffield

[IHMC Robotics @IHMCRobotics]

@jamespaulfoster recently presented our work at @TheIHMC with @UWF on inertial adaptation on our humanoid robot, Nadia, at #IROS2024. This is needed for robots to compensate for and exploit manipulated objects.

The preprint is available on arxiv: https://t.co/BwDfpNaH2c

[Evan Ackerman @BotJunkie]

IHMC’s Nadia is a Versatile Humanoid Teammate
https://t.co/MytBTjoQkt

[James Foster @jamespaulfoster]

@saddler96 🤐

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

Thinking about the erotic thriller film where a young man gives Jennifer Lopez a priceless "first edition" copy of The Iliad

[James Foster @jamespaulfoster]

@Petar_Kormushev @RobotIntelliLab @Alchemist1017 @OlivierStasse @ImperialMechEng @ImperialRobots @ImperialDyson @ImperialAI @imperialcollege Wooo!! Congratulations Ke 🎉🎉🎉

[Petar Kormushev 🤖 @Petar_Kormushev]

Huge congratulations to my PhD student Ke Wang @Alchemist1017 for successfully passing his viva today! 🥳

Special gratitude to the examiners: @OlivierStasse and Ravi Vaidyanathan from @ImperialMechEng

@RobotIntelliLab @ImperialRobots @ImperialDyson @ImperialAI @imperialcollege

[Lewis 🇺🇸 @ctjlewis]

anyone ever put a thousand hours into something and still suck at it

[the moon’s wife @bookishseawitch]

good morning to every english teacher who woke up this morning like “today’s the day I assign a short story that will haunt them till the day they die”

[James Foster @jamespaulfoster]

@adampollock Fictions by Borges, or Moby-Dick by Melville. I separate my reading life as before Borges and after Borges.

[ryan wilson @ryanwilson89]

Bloody love this! @JoshAdams951 giving Ange Capuozzo his man of the match medal! @SixNationsRugby @WelshRugbyUnion @Federugby #SixNations2022

[James Foster @jamespaulfoster]

@timgill924 Brutal. The absolute daisy cutter of takes.

[Chris Foy @FoyChris]

Six Nations upheaval on the cards as South Africa set to join from 2025, with most likely scenario involving the Boks replacing Italy, rather than an expansion to seven teams. Story for ⁦@MailSport⁩ … https://t.co/IvoztC0GAf

[David Pfau @pfau]

OK, this is one I’ve been waiting to share for a *long* time – the first ever demonstration of deep reinforcement learning on a nuclear fusion research device! https://t.co/HVfUCrMTlM

[James Foster @jamespaulfoster]

@angeris Phwooaar. Ooni?

[Brandon Amos @brandondamos]

I just posted a new tutorial on amortized optimization! It covers foundations for learning to optimize and how they are key ingredients for VAEs, RL, meta-learning, and sparse coding with budding applications in DEQs, convex optimization, and beyond

https://t.co/cwvUcyfGJL

🧵

[James Foster @jamespaulfoster]

@sp_monte_carlo Oooo, that’s a novel combo

[James Foster @jamespaulfoster]

@adampollock I will rant and rave to anyone who listens about the price of produce out here in the US. Since I moved out here I’m really missing the ability to get good quality fruit and veg for tens of pence.