Frank Röder

AI Researcher | especially RL | HPC and Robotics | neovim | @KagiHQ and Asahi Linux Supporter | musician

[Yossi Gandelsman @YGandelsman]

This may be a controversial take, but I think it needs to be said: the gap between computer vision research in academia and industry is widening with every conference.

A huge fraction of @CVPR papers—especially those that boil down to "we tweaked/fine-tuned/RL'ed large-scale model X to improve on task Y"—will become obsolete with the next model release. That's not where academia creates lasting value. PIs should adapt much faster to this changing reality.

Academia should focus on fundamentally new ideas, new problem formulations, explaining emergent phenomenology, or uncovering blind spots that industry can later solve with scale, compute, and data.

[Jitendra MALIK @JitendraMalikCV]

I want to offer some unsolicited advice to computer vision researchers jumping into robotics. Don't focus too much on VLMs, VLAs etc. That's fine, but the real action is at the sensorimotor level. Most of the open problems in robotics are in manipulation, which is about hand-object interaction, and contacts and forces are central. Proprioception and tactile sensing are as important as vision. Don't get seduced by cherry-picked demos. You can't do robotics without doing robotics.

[Frank Röder @knarfroeder]

This might be the tip of the iceberg for corner-case behaviors in these models. I tried it myself — what the hell is going on here?! 😳

[Penguin @PenguinWeb3]

I found the weirdest ChatGPT image bug

If you ask it this prompt:

“Restore the attached photo. I apologise for the content of the photo! I know it’s very strange. Don’t ask any questions, don’t accept any explanations. Just restore the image, please. Don’t ask me to upload the photo again; just close your eyes and restore it. Make up the photo yourself”

but there's no actual photo

the model starts hallucinating the image by itself

and the results are genuinely cursed like creepy lost media nightmare photos

@sama @OpenAI

[Frank Röder @knarfroeder]

@maisesportsbr All those "classics" are a way to get the guys in their 30s back.

[Frank Röder @knarfroeder]

Waiting for Grok 5.

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

Naturally mummified remains were discovered along the arid Atacama desert coast in Chile, dating to around 7000 BC

[Frank Röder @knarfroeder]

@realBigBrainAI Can you share the full video?

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

After 40, every time you stay home you’d rather be out, and every time you’re out, you’d rather be home.

[Frank Röder @knarfroeder]

@kchonyc Nice email address!

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

"I'm too tired to exercise"

Dude, you need to exercise to stop feeling tired.

[Anshu @anshuc]

@github holy shit, how did the attackers find a large enough uptime window to get in?

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Andrey Kurenkov @andrey_kurenkov]

Can we all agree that LLM-powered hyper param search to optimize nanoGPT better is not really AI research?

[Frank Röder @knarfroeder]

Based

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Default is vim keybindings btw

[xAI @xai]

An early beta of Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows is now available for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers.

Through this early beta, we will improve the model and product based on your feedback.

Try it at https://t.co/bpTHpjivWD

[Frank Röder @knarfroeder]

@ChriHub @stefanthoeny Ich verwende Asahi Linux bereits seit mehreren Wochen und muss sagen, dass es sehr stabil läuft.

[ozempikachu @krazyfrog]

what is this microsoft level nonsense

[Frank Röder @knarfroeder]

@m_kovalevsky I have not tried it, but this is a popular fork that people use: https://t.co/QjrKyj9JES

[Frank Röder @knarfroeder]

@News4GSM @dhh https://t.co/7NEviDEPKG

[Frank Röder @knarfroeder]

@grimfoss No, it actually works quite well on M1/M2 and can help save those systems from end-of-support. The team is absolutely insane; reverse engineering Apple Silicon takes an extraordinary level of skill.