Rodrigo Aldana-López

I did my PhD @unizar @diis_uz on control theory and CS. EE, CS and Math. he/him

[elie @eliebakouch]

Training LLMs end to end is hard. Very excited to share our new blog (book?) that cover the full pipeline: pre-training, post-training and infra. 200+ pages of what worked, what didn’t, and how to make it run reliably

https://t.co/iN2JtWhn23

[Rodrigo Aldana-López @stable_root]

@kareem_carr

[Topology Fact @TopologyFact]

Visualizing Hyperbolic Honeycombs https://t.co/biijxGJr5R

[Keenan Crane @keenanisalive]

“Everyone knows” what an autoencoder is… but there's an important complementary picture missing from most introductory material.

In short: we emphasize how autoencoders are implemented—but not always what they represent (and some of the implications of that representation).🧵

[∞-modal @NoahChrein]

(From https://t.co/F4w5wzggoW)

[Florian Dörfler @florian_dorfler]

Uncertainty is rarely/never exogenous! Certainly not in games when you need to gauge whether your opponent is playing cooperative, min-max, or Nash or… ?!?

📄Paper alert: Strategically Robust Game Theory via Optimal Transport https://t.co/BLb868wbt5

[Rodrigo Aldana-López @stable_root]

I’m humbled to announce I received the EECI PhD Award for the best PhD thesis in Europe in Systems and Control, for my work at @diis_uz @unizar @i3aunizar. This recognition also belongs to my collaborators, supervisors, and my wife @stepzr for her support and care all these years

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

It turns out the Turing Award is actually a silvery bowl from Tiffanys.

[Differential Eqns @diff_eq]

'The history of transistors is the history of solving Schrödinger's equation in various materials.' -- Leon Lederman

[Vidit Nanda @viditnanda]

I knew that picture looked familiar...

[Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils]

To be clear, academia is not inherently "better" or "worse" than industry. In fact, I believe there are amazing opportunities in industry! But, despite its many imperfections, it's hard to find a better option than academia for open-ended curiosity-driven research.

[Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils]

You don't _need_ a PhD (or any qualification) to do almost anything. A PhD is a rare opportunity to grow as an independent thinker in an academic environment, rather than immediately becoming a gear in a corporate agenda. It's definitely not for everyone!

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

"Floods", by @dev_a_patel, is one of the more astounding Big Data econ papers I have ever seen. Machine learning can be used on satellite data to essentially do magic. How damaging are floods? How much do they affect human capital attainment? A thread on the paper 1/

[Jonathan Gorard @getjonwithit]

Calling c the "speed of light" completely misses the point. Rather, c is the "spacetime exchange rate": how many units of space you can exchange for one unit of time.

In actuality, everything travels at the "speed of light", just not necessarily through space alone... (1/4)

[Prof. Nikolai Slavov @slavov_n]

This lesson makes better leaders too.

It should be a prerequisite for politicians.

https://t.co/F6fUgZ1AK7

[Frank Dellaert @fdellaert]

Very happy to announce that my PhD student Fan Jiang (@FanOnRobotics) successfully defended yesterday, on "Inertially-Aided Navigation with Ultra-Wideband Wireless Ranging". Fan did some cool work with factor graphs and also built a rust-powered UWB ranging device in the process.

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

Only a few will get this

[Rodrigo Aldana-López @stable_root]

@getjonwithit What about Abraham-Lorentz force (inducing 3rd order ode). Is it not "natural"?

[Γ(z) @gammaofzeta]

Geometry 📐and a view at @cimatoficial