Josh Holder
@joshgholder
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tweets about robotics software, control and optimization, and (inevitably) AI. opinions my own.
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Joined February 2017
My first paper will be in AAAI this yr (@natashajaques) - we figured out how to get 1000s of satellites to play nicely with distributed optimization + RL, smashing baselines. People severely underestimate the maturity level of RL in 2024, and the impacts it will/is already having
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Chinese building a $167 billion, 70 GW dam… just flexing on us at this point
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RT @nrehiew_: The problem with all these agent companies/products is that since you don’t have access to the underlying weights, the bet yo….
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Life seems like it would go so hard if you could simply fire anyone who provides you with an inconvenient answer to a question.
The totally groundless firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer, my successor as Commissioner of Labor Statistics at BLS, sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the Bureau. For a full statement opposing this move, read:
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intern ahead of me on the bus frantically googling “when do you hear back from Jane street” “Jane street interview timeline”… if you have to ask it seems like you’re stuck here with me buddy.
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Ok but how does this fit into my worldview that I am an engineer and therefore intellectually superior by default.
Companies that hire consulting firms see large increases in labor productivity and also large increases of wages, with no decline in labor share or value added. It seems like a lot of the more nihilist theories of why companies hire consultants are not true on average!.
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slop has gotten so prevalent that I’m walking on eggshells trying to write without LLMs. constantly asking myself “is this slop coded” “would an LLM use that em-dash”.
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RT @Pavel_Asparagus: Enforcing 9/9/6 top down is a cop out for actually inspiring people. People will work hard if they believe the work is….
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RT @sridatta: 'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, . so living organisms evolved sensitivi….
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the crux is that for LLMs, simulation *is* their reality, while for robotics models there is inevitably a gap. For subtle reasons, Sergey argues that this gap may be insurmountable without real data. Needing an internet-scale robotics dataset would certainly lengthen timelines.
I wrote a fun little article about all the ways to dodge the need for real-world robot data. I think it has a cute title.
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sweet summer child has never been exposed to the horrors of simulink autocode.
matlab scripts are disposable code.
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Are there examples of this happening in previous admins? Or is this corruption as uniquely brazen as it seems?.
I have good reason to believe that somebody knew the copper tariffs were coming and traded the news ahead of time, and made an ungodly amount of profit. Trump announced his new 50% copper tariff at 12:58 PM yesterday. But as my charting shows, the price of copper began spiking
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brb implementing this in flight code.
The is diabolical. a Python object that hallucinates method implementations on demand any time you call them, using my LLM Python library
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working in the aerospace industry, the most mind-boggling thing about the Waymo rollout is that it works at all from a regulatory perspective. at what point can you as a company "call it good" when the potential edge cases are infinite? not even a rhetorical question.
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RT @DKThomp: My answer to Tyler: . We don’t need to create budget space for a $1T tax break for high-income S corps and $15 million estates….
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my power must grow.
the primary nice thing about getting older is that you’re better at everything. raw g may be entering slow decline but you’re more socially competent, better at your work. underrated.
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RT @tristan_knotts: Short-sighted take. Irrespective of what Starlink does, there is no reason for terrestrial fiber to remain the primary….
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