cesar romero

principal machine learning engineer working mostly on computer vision

[cesar romero @romerocesar]

Coding agents are great at implementation, but still weak at software design. I still design the architecture, interfaces, and abstractions; the agent writes the code. Review AI-generated code before merging. Someone still has to maintain it—and that's probably you.

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Surely this is a silicon valley joke

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WTF is this near the border between Michigan and Ohio?

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PlayStation turns 30yo today 😳
https://t.co/rycCtgM0G2

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is GameNGen an example of thinking deeply inside the box? this is doom running _inside_ a diffusion model

https://t.co/1iOaLOXYLr

https://t.co/gxQh29SjAh

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@CodeFryingPan why a fork instead of an extension?

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@pretendsmarts @Meta other researchers I talked to from @Stanford and @Yale were using @GazeboSim for robotics research because of the unity license

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Unity had a chance to grow with researchers in ML simulation for computer vision and robotics. Restrictive licensing and lack of internal support led many to alternatives: Unreal Engine, Meta's https://t.co/61Z1ks7CRj, Google DeepMind's open-sourced mujoco, and NVIDIA's Omniverse

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@pretendsmarts This is the primary reason @Meta created https://t.co/61Z1ks751L from scratch and the car sim CARLA moved to unreal engine after developing SYNTHIA on unity and preferring unity's usability. It took 6mo of negotiations for deepmind to start using unity because of the license

[Xenova @xenovacom]

Introducing MusicGen Web: AI-powered music generation directly in your browser, built with 🤗 Transformers.js! 🎵

Everything runs 100% locally, meaning no calls to an API! 🤯 Served as a static website... this costs $0 to host and run! 🔥

Try it out yourself! 👇

[cesar romero @romerocesar]

I wish x supported markdown @elonmusk

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grab a few files from a large dataset for simple integration test

shuf -zn20 -e /source/dir/* | xargs -0 cp -t /destination/dir/

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@sama A man playing ukelele at dusk. the video starts zoomed in on the instrument, and zooms out slowly to reveal a view of the pacific ocean and a rainbow visible on the side

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@sama photosynthesis explained for a 5 year old kid

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@sama an instructor of brazilian jiu-jitsu shows students how to pass guard and submit an opponent using the kimura

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I just had a realization probably many others had before me: it's time people start rewriting @chucknorris jokes with @davidgoggins instead

[Poonam Soni @CodeByPoonam]

Google just launched VideoPoet, and it's insane

It's literally ChatGPT for:
- Text-to-Video
- Image-to-Video
- Inpainting
- Video Editing

Here're 10 wild examples:

[hardmaru @hardmaru]

Conway’s Game of Life is Omniperiodic

https://t.co/a2oBWyYiPN

“In the theory of cellular automata, an oscillator is a pattern that repeats itself after a fixed number of generations; that number is called its period. A cellular automaton is called omniperiodic if there exist oscillators of all periods. At the turn of the millennium, only twelve oscillator periods remained to be found in Conway's Game of Life. The search has finally ended, with the discovery of oscillators having the final two periods, 19 and 41, proving that Life is omniperiodic. Besides filling in the missing periods, we give a detailed history of the omniperiodicity problem and the strategies used to solve it, summarising the work of a large number of people in the decades since the creation of Life.”

[cesar romero @romerocesar]

My kitchen is an hallaca factory today