Chris Piech
@chrispiech
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Education + AI. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Education at Stanford University. Grew up in 🇰🇪 and 🇲🇾.
Stanford, CA
Joined April 2010
Code in Place 4 is on! Do you know anyone who wants to learn python? Know anyone who wants to teach? Share this class with them. It's a wonderful vibe.
#CodeinPlace is back and better than ever! Our giant intro-to-coding party is taking applications for 2024 and we're excited for our next group of passionate learners from around the world. Apply by April 11, 2024: https://t.co/2kmESpJWV0
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All of my Deep RL course lecture videos from Spring 2025 are now online! 🥳 Youtube playlist:
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Shadow Killer weaves terror, art heists, and existential dread. A charismatic killer distorts reality, forcing Alexander and Alexia to face the arcane.
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Dear American student friends, A new journey begins today: a program that brings you to France and strengthens the timeless friendship between our two nations: the Lafayette Fellowship! For young people,
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π0.5 weights + fine-tuning code are now open-source! https://t.co/k4IFdgnYfQ
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Contribute to Physical-Intelligence/openpi development by creating an account on GitHub.
We've added pi-05 to the openpi repo: pi05-base, pi05-droid, pi05-libero. Also added PyTorch training code!🔥 Instructions and code here: https://t.co/EOhNYfpq9B This is an updated version of the model we showed cleaning kitchens and bedrooms in April:
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Stanford bare-metal systems course https://t.co/mKsTyIaInL needs to find stock of MangoPi MQ-Pro. Please reach out if you have connections! @mangopi_sbc
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The coming years will split companies into two groups: those that become AI-native and those left catching up. The innovators who harness AI now will define the winners of tomorrow. Follow me for strategic insights on leading through the AI revolution.
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Fun surprising science fact for your Saturday morning. Liquids don't splash when hitting a hard surface in a vacuum. Somehow nobody really knew that so researchers actually wrote a paper. Links below. OK. Now back to working on AI :)
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Very cool thread about the CS336 Language Models from Scratch course at Stanford taught by @percyliang et al. Makes me wish I was a student again!
Wrapped up Stanford CS336 (Language Models from Scratch), taught with an amazing team @tatsu_hashimoto @marcelroed @neilbband @rckpudi. Researchers are becoming detached from the technical details of how LMs work. In CS336, we try to fix that by having students build everything:
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Registration for the 2025 ACM Learning at Scale Conference in sunny #Palermo (co-located w/@EDMConf2025 & # @AIEDconf) is open: https://t.co/IAkTpOiK8w. This year, one ticket gets you into both #las25ed and #EDM2025! Take advantage of Early Bird rates until May 31. @OlgaOvi
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Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) is excited to announce new SAIL Postdoctoral Fellowships! We are looking for outstanding candidates excited to advance the frontiers of AI with our professors and vibrant community. Applications received by the end of April 30 will receive full
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YouWare Challenge Hackathon is LIVE! Powered by @contra. $10K+ up for grabs. Build something with YouWare. Submit your project for a chance to win. Start your project here ↓
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What an honor. Thanks L@S
The 2025 ACM L@S Conference features a keynote from Chris Piech (@chrispiech) and a special panel featuring Mar Pérez-Sanagustín (@marimar_ps)! #las26ed
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Wow Google has just released Firebase Studio You can build any app in natural language, modify it and deploy it all in one place 🔥 Basically a free alternative to Cursor, Bolt or v0, directly in the browser. Link and more below
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Just for fun: Texas Holdem Puzzles over whatsapp. Send a whatsapp message to +1 (415) 728-3856 With the text message M3EI51 to get a puzzle. Share with your friends! I made this with the Whatsapp Python Runner from @sierracwang, TJ Jefferson, @juliettewoodrow and Andrew Tierno
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Also! While I have your attention. We need section leaders. This year looks like a record number of student enrollment. Volunteer teachers are the heart and soul of the course. Know how to code? Learn to teach. It's a joy
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🐍 -> 📱. Friends can run your python code over whatsapp. Help us test out this new feature for code in place (intro coding from Stanford)
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I'll be giving an invited talk on our #LearnLM efforts to improve #Gemini for learning at the iRAISE workshop https://t.co/xCVg9DbtOD tomorrow, come stop by if you are at #AAAI2025 in Philadelphia! Read more in our latest tech report: https://t.co/3kqwG3TbQD
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Such a cool paper! Great work
👋Remember waving your hand, desperate for the teacher's attention?👋 Teacher attention is important for student learning!!! Our new study uses AI to reveal who gets attention and who doesn't across **1M+** tutoring utterances. 🧵👇
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I quite like the idea using games to evaluate LLMs against each other, instead of fixed evals. Playing against another intelligent entity self-balances and adapts difficulty, so each eval (/environment) is leveraged a lot more. There's some early attempts around. Exciting area.
@karpathy Perfect timing, we are just about to publish TextArena. A collection of 57 text-based games (30 in the first release) including single-player, two-player and multi-player games. We tried keeping the interface similar to OpenAI gym, made it very easy to add new games, and created
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The latest Microsoft Research Forum episode is now available on-demand. Explore purposeful research and its real-world impact.
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Not many people in the news talking about the environmental benefits of deep seek training an LLM with an order of magnitude less compute. Folks seem more focused on...
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