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Ryan Hickman
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Ryan Hickman
@ryanmhickman
Director of TPM, Robotics @Instawork. Scaling spatial data & custom hardware for physical AI. Previously: NVIDIA, Agility, 13yrs @Google Research.
California, USA
instawork.com/robotics
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Dec 23, 2021
    Replying to @JoshuaOgundu
    I worked for Capital One in the late 90's and they made ALL employees take some customer service calls.☎️ It was ALWAYS a positive in helping everyone at the company understand customers better.👍
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Feb 8, 2024
    💰 My comp would be $1.3M/yr if I was still with NVDA 😞 Absolutely hated being on the Omniverse team but perhaps I should have quiet-quit like so many of my peers had 🤔
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Mar 13, 2020
    I'm a Google TPM (technical program manager) and I've completely backed off pushing anyone for milestones or deadlines right now. I'm into "enabler mode", helping people where they need it. Keeping busy is good and many people want to work. That's up to them though.
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Sep 16, 2021
    Replying to @SciGuySpace
    Sadly, their attempts to make this mission "inspirational" are failing hard on the general public. Space fans on Twitter follow intently, but zero people I've talked to knew about this mission or have any clue what's going on. The exclusive to Netflix was a bad call IMO.
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Dec 26, 2018
    Replying to @AkkiJ_ and @ArlanWasHere
    snopes.com/fact-check/lio…
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Jun 11, 2023
    Resharing with the video embedded to better show the incredible detail in this humanoid.
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    May 10, 2023
    @CKohstall let me NeRF his wild new affordable humanoid robot that uses LLMs and vision-in-the-loop to interact with you 👀👊 captures.lumalabs.ai/reliable-surpa… kindhumanoid.com
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Jun 11, 2024
    Replying to @bilawalsidhu
    I remember the privacy team at Google pushing back on Project Tango/ AR Core making maps of your home: "how can we make this completely uninteresting to the FBI?" Government requests were a huge burden in 2014 and I'll bet it's even worse now. Kudos to Apple for this path.
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Aug 22, 2021
    Wanna know how Boston Dynamics robots do those feats of fitness? This is a really excellent dive into the HW and SW behind the scenes, and some transparency around the question of how much is model based vs learned. slideslive.com/38946802/bosto… h/t to @erwincoumans for the link
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Nov 25, 2023
    Replying to @ylecun
    (5) bad actors will use them for VERY bad things We don't need an AI to go rogue to be worried
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Mar 2, 2022
    Ouch, point #2 is quite relevant to the US too 😬
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Oct 24, 2021
    This is insane. I expect this situation all the time as I test unreleased versions of Android and Google apps. The consequences are that sometimes my TV or phone misbehaves. To test a safety system for a lethal vehicle like this is beyond acceptable. FSD should be halted.
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    Elon Musk
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    @elonmusk
    Oct 24, 2021
    Replying to @elonmusk
    Seeing some issues with 10.3, so rolling back to 10.2 temporarily. Please note, this is to be expected with beta software. It is impossible to test all hardware configs in all conditions with internal QA, hence public beta.
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Dec 2, 2023
    Replying to @ryanweather
    Isn't this *exactly* what's predicted from a warming climate: "Global extremes" for weather?
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Jun 5, 2021
    Neural Radiance Factorization (NeRFactor) is pushing NeRF into next level territory. people.csail.mit.edu/xiuming/projec… This tech is still "researchy" but in 1-2 years, every game engine or product from Adobe & Autodesk, is going to need to figure out their "neural representation" story.
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    Ryan Hickman
    @ryanmhickman
    Jul 21, 2023
    🫡 All done for the day as I say farewell to NVIDIA 🟢 🤝 Met a lot of awesome people that I hope to cross paths with again. Now it's time for a Summer break 🌴 and then onto new adventures 🧭
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