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Bam4d
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Doing stuff at @mistralai ... Inference, Robotics, Foolishness. ex. @MetaAI
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Nov 4, 2022
    So not only job layoffs..... My entire trip to NeurIPS has just been cancelled by @metaai. I've still not been to an in-person conference during my PhD. Now im going to desperately scrounge around for some money to pay for flights and hotels, which will now be super expensive.
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Dec 4, 2022
    RL is dead. With a bit of prompt engineering, ChatGPT can straight up zero-shot RL
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Jul 15, 2022
    We’re excited to announce GriddlyJS - A Web IDE for Reinforcement Learning! Design 🎨, build ⚒️, debug 🐛RL environments, record human trajectories 👲, and run policies 🤖 directly in your browser 🕸! Check it out here: griddly.ai Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2207.06105
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Oct 17, 2022
    We’re excited to announce that GriddlyJS will be presented at NeurIPS 2022. Design 🎨, build ⚒️, debug 🐛RL environments, record human trajectories 👲, and run policies 🤖 directly in your browser 🕸! Check it out here: griddly.ai Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2207.06105
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Jun 27, 2022
    Just casually spending 4 years doing a PhD to fail miserably at hackerrank interviews.
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Dec 4, 2022
    Looks like @DeepMind saw GriddlyJS and decided to build their own version.... I had no idea they were building this but it looks incredibly similar to my work.
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    Google DeepMind
    @GoogleDeepMind
    Nov 29, 2022
    At #NeurIPS2022, we're introducing Play Lab, an accessible digital laboratory that lets you build small worlds and set up experiments to analyse how embodied agents behave in an interactive simulation. Try it yourself: ⌚10.30am CST 📍Booth #609, Hall G dpmd.ai/neurips-2022-tw
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Aug 13, 2022
    PhD: Where you simultaneously think you have worked the hardest in your life and produced loads of stuff,,, but at the same time feel like you've literally done nothing for 4 years and nobody gives a shit.
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Jan 30, 2021
    Replying to @IGcom
    You literally have an advertising campaign out at the moment that states "Trade US tech the way you want, even in volatile times".
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Mar 4, 2021
    After only about an hour of training. Solving pretty complex logic problems... Should probably write a paper about this. Don't like writing papers. I'll just open source it in the next few days instead.
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Jun 30, 2023
    Two things that I'm unbelievably excited about. 1) I've finished and handed in my Ph.D. corrections. 2) On Monday, I'm joining Mistral.ai @aimistral as an AI Scientist
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Dec 21, 2020
    Replying to @timnitGebru
    As someone with an underlying health condition that means i *very occaisionally* need to take some time off work, nothing has every made me feel more shitty/guilty/shameful than HR people.
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Nov 3, 2023
    Everyone is going on about success and career opportunities and glory and all that stuff. Do your PhD for passion and fun. You only have one life. Your motivation should be your own, not some external validation from peers or resources or career.
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    sshkhr
    @sshkhr16
    Nov 1, 2023
    As PhD applications season draws closer, I have an alternative suggestion for people starting their careers in artificial intelligence/machine learning: Don't Do A PhD in Machine Learning ❌ (or, at least, not right now) 1/4 🧵
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Sep 17, 2021
    Hello academic twitter. Let's talk about mental health. The last few months of my PhD have been really fucking hard. I'm defeated, sad and questioning why I'm even doing this to myself. A thread...
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    Bam4d
    @Bam4d
    Apr 14, 2020
    So here is my first (first author) paper out of my PhD. I'm pretty proud of it. I also have a github repository with code examples and pre-trained models! paper: arxiv.org/abs/2003.10520 code: github.com/Bam4d/Neural-G…