Minsuk Chang
@minsuk.bsky.social
Research Scientist @ Google Deepmind. Opinions are my own.
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Heads up! 🚨 Mark your calendar for next week! 🚨
More games to be released on the @kaggle.com Game Arena!!! 🎉🙌
See how foundations models perform at poker ♣️♥️♠️♦️ and werewolf 👫🐺!! And more Chess results too! 🧠♟️
🤩 🤩 🤩
More games to be released on the @kaggle.com Game Arena!!! 🎉🙌
See how foundations models perform at poker ♣️♥️♠️♦️ and werewolf 👫🐺!! And more Chess results too! 🧠♟️
🤩 🤩 🤩
📌 Mark Your Calendar: Live Game Arena Event This Monday!
We are releasing two new games, Poker and Werewolf, along with an updated Chess leaderboard next Monday, February 2, running daily from 9:30 AM PT to 11:30 AM PT through February 4
We are releasing two new games, Poker and Werewolf, along with an updated Chess leaderboard next Monday, February 2, running daily from 9:30 AM PT to 11:30 AM PT through February 4
January 29, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Heads up! 🚨 Mark your calendar for next week! 🚨
More games to be released on the @kaggle.com Game Arena!!! 🎉🙌
See how foundations models perform at poker ♣️♥️♠️♦️ and werewolf 👫🐺!! And more Chess results too! 🧠♟️
🤩 🤩 🤩
More games to be released on the @kaggle.com Game Arena!!! 🎉🙌
See how foundations models perform at poker ♣️♥️♠️♦️ and werewolf 👫🐺!! And more Chess results too! 🧠♟️
🤩 🤩 🤩
@waymo.bsky.social Waymo’s biggest missed opportunity is not being the official chauffeur for everyone under 16. Safe, tracked, and never gets tired of "Golden" on repeat. Let’s make it happen. Waymo Junior.
January 28, 2026 at 11:58 AM
@waymo.bsky.social Waymo’s biggest missed opportunity is not being the official chauffeur for everyone under 16. Safe, tracked, and never gets tired of "Golden" on repeat. Let’s make it happen. Waymo Junior.
opendoor, opentable, openai, what else are we going to open?
January 17, 2026 at 11:02 PM
opendoor, opentable, openai, what else are we going to open?
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🙌 Join the Gemini 3 global hackathon for early API access to build next-gen apps! We’ve got $100k in prizes + funding opportunities for the best builds.
If you've yearned to start a passion project or to kick the tires on an idea for a company, there's never been a better time.
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If you've yearned to start a passion project or to kick the tires on an idea for a company, there's never been a better time.
gemini3.devpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:23 PM
🙌 Join the Gemini 3 global hackathon for early API access to build next-gen apps! We’ve got $100k in prizes + funding opportunities for the best builds.
If you've yearned to start a passion project or to kick the tires on an idea for a company, there's never been a better time.
gemini3.devpost.com
If you've yearned to start a passion project or to kick the tires on an idea for a company, there's never been a better time.
gemini3.devpost.com
If you're are an HCI student navigating the industry job market, here’s my unsolicited take on why you should stop defending 'human-centeredness'. I’m rarely right. Read at your own risk: minsukchang.com/blog/2026-01...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:52 AM
If you're are an HCI student navigating the industry job market, here’s my unsolicited take on why you should stop defending 'human-centeredness'. I’m rarely right. Read at your own risk: minsukchang.com/blog/2026-01...
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People wanted our Open Source Organizations starter pack to include many projects, so we decided to give them their own starter pack.
go.bsky.app/HvKFRKa
go.bsky.app/HvKFRKa
Open Source projects
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
January 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
People wanted our Open Source Organizations starter pack to include many projects, so we decided to give them their own starter pack.
go.bsky.app/HvKFRKa
go.bsky.app/HvKFRKa
Recently went to Goodwill for a ceramic planter. Left with Michelle Obama's autobiography for $2 instead (there were three of them???) Still looking for the planter...
January 8, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Recently went to Goodwill for a ceramic planter. Left with Michelle Obama's autobiography for $2 instead (there were three of them???) Still looking for the planter...
All this just to remind the timeline that Eintracht Frankfurt is the greatest football club on earth. I will die on this hill. 🦅✌️ #SGE
In the month of December, Seattle (where I live now) gets 52.9 hrs of sunlight on average, London (where my employer is) gets 52 hrs, Frankfurt (where I grew up) gets 41. Seoul gets 152.6 hrs, more than all three put together.
January 8, 2026 at 2:47 AM
All this just to remind the timeline that Eintracht Frankfurt is the greatest football club on earth. I will die on this hill. 🦅✌️ #SGE
In the month of December, Seattle (where I live now) gets 52.9 hrs of sunlight on average, London (where my employer is) gets 52 hrs, Frankfurt (where I grew up) gets 41. Seoul gets 152.6 hrs, more than all three put together.
January 8, 2026 at 2:43 AM
In the month of December, Seattle (where I live now) gets 52.9 hrs of sunlight on average, London (where my employer is) gets 52 hrs, Frankfurt (where I grew up) gets 41. Seoul gets 152.6 hrs, more than all three put together.
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Please welcome Google's Open Source efforts to Blue Sky at @opensource.google!
January 7, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Please welcome Google's Open Source efforts to Blue Sky at @opensource.google!
Okay people. I've achieved Nobel Trajectory on this Tenure-track game (tenuretrack.vercel.app/game2d.html) Kangwook (kangwooklee.com) made. This is going into my faculty application if I ever apply.
January 7, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Okay people. I've achieved Nobel Trajectory on this Tenure-track game (tenuretrack.vercel.app/game2d.html) Kangwook (kangwooklee.com) made. This is going into my faculty application if I ever apply.
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Gentle reminder for the RL folks out there:
RLC 2026 → Montreal 🇨🇦 (Aug 16–19)
Abstract: Mar 1 | Submission: Mar 5 (AOE) | rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...
Looking forward to receiving your submission!
RLC 2026 → Montreal 🇨🇦 (Aug 16–19)
Abstract: Mar 1 | Submission: Mar 5 (AOE) | rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...
Looking forward to receiving your submission!
January 7, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Gentle reminder for the RL folks out there:
RLC 2026 → Montreal 🇨🇦 (Aug 16–19)
Abstract: Mar 1 | Submission: Mar 5 (AOE) | rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...
Looking forward to receiving your submission!
RLC 2026 → Montreal 🇨🇦 (Aug 16–19)
Abstract: Mar 1 | Submission: Mar 5 (AOE) | rl-conference.cc/callforpaper...
Looking forward to receiving your submission!
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I started a crowdsourced meta-project to list all the other crowdsourced mathematical research projects that are currently active and seeking participants: mathoverflow.net/questions/50...
List of crowdsourced math projects actively seeking participants
I believe that with the advent of modern online collaboration platforms (such as Github), proof assistant languages (such as Lean), and (potentially) AI tools, there are many emerging opportunities...
mathoverflow.net
September 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I started a crowdsourced meta-project to list all the other crowdsourced mathematical research projects that are currently active and seeking participants: mathoverflow.net/questions/50...
Trying this place again.
January 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Trying this place again.
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My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally.
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
December 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally.
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2/ric... From almost 25 yrs ago!
Utterance Is Place Enough | Frances Richard
Mapping conversation
www.cabinetmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2/ric... From almost 25 yrs ago!
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Come be our colleague in the robotics and embodied intelligence center at NYU!
🔷 Professor in Robotics / Embodied AI (Open Rank)
apply.interfolio.com/176977
🔷 Faculty Fellow in Robotics / Embodied AI
apply.interfolio.com/177077
🔷 Professor in Robotics / Embodied AI (Open Rank)
apply.interfolio.com/176977
🔷 Faculty Fellow in Robotics / Embodied AI
apply.interfolio.com/177077
Apply - Interfolio
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November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Come be our colleague in the robotics and embodied intelligence center at NYU!
🔷 Professor in Robotics / Embodied AI (Open Rank)
apply.interfolio.com/176977
🔷 Faculty Fellow in Robotics / Embodied AI
apply.interfolio.com/177077
🔷 Professor in Robotics / Embodied AI (Open Rank)
apply.interfolio.com/176977
🔷 Faculty Fellow in Robotics / Embodied AI
apply.interfolio.com/177077
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Physical Intelligence has a recipe for real world RL on top of VLAs and it looks impressive: www.pi.website/blog/pistar06
A VLA that Learns from Experience
A method for training our generalist policies with RL to improve success rate and throughput on real-world tasks.
www.pi.website
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Physical Intelligence has a recipe for real world RL on top of VLAs and it looks impressive: www.pi.website/blog/pistar06
I'm hiring a student researcher for next summer at the intersection of MARL x LLM. If you're a phd student with experience in MARL algorithm research, please apply and drop me an email so that I know you've applied! www.google.com/about/career...
Student Researcher, PhD, Winter/Summer 2026 — Google Careers
www.google.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I'm hiring a student researcher for next summer at the intersection of MARL x LLM. If you're a phd student with experience in MARL algorithm research, please apply and drop me an email so that I know you've applied! www.google.com/about/career...
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Hundreds of hours of European driving data from NVIDIA! 1700 hours total
Big day for autonomous driving research.
Nvidia just dropped 1700 hours of public driving data on HuggingFace from over 2500 cities:
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
Nvidia just dropped 1700 hours of public driving data on HuggingFace from over 2500 cities:
huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...
huggingface.co
October 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Hundreds of hours of European driving data from NVIDIA! 1700 hours total
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Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
September 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
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Our NeurIPS submission arxiv.org/abs/2502.08938 did not get in, but it's one of my favorite papers and I think one of the better papers we've ever put out so I want to highlight it
Reevaluating Policy Gradient Methods for Imperfect-Information Games
In the past decade, motivated by the putative failure of naive self-play deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in adversarial imperfect-information games, researchers have developed numerous DRL algorithm...
arxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Our NeurIPS submission arxiv.org/abs/2502.08938 did not get in, but it's one of my favorite papers and I think one of the better papers we've ever put out so I want to highlight it
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Do you have a PhD (or equivalent) or will have one in the coming months (i.e. 2-3 months away from graduating)? Do you want to help build open-ended agents that help humans do humans things better, rather than replace them? We're hiring 1-2 Research Scientists! Check the 🧵👇
July 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Do you have a PhD (or equivalent) or will have one in the coming months (i.e. 2-3 months away from graduating)? Do you want to help build open-ended agents that help humans do humans things better, rather than replace them? We're hiring 1-2 Research Scientists! Check the 🧵👇
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Archive of archives.
worrydream.com/Links2025/
worrydream.com/Links2025/
Links 2025
worrydream.com
June 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Archive of archives.
worrydream.com/Links2025/
worrydream.com/Links2025/
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Claude Code, meet your rival: Gemini CLI 🔥🚀
Google just unleashed Gemini 2.5 Pro at the command line—free, open-source (Apache 2.0) , 1-million-token brain baked right into your terminal. Chat, code, search, script—all with zero tab fatigue.
Google just unleashed Gemini 2.5 Pro at the command line—free, open-source (Apache 2.0) , 1-million-token brain baked right into your terminal. Chat, code, search, script—all with zero tab fatigue.
June 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Claude Code, meet your rival: Gemini CLI 🔥🚀
Google just unleashed Gemini 2.5 Pro at the command line—free, open-source (Apache 2.0) , 1-million-token brain baked right into your terminal. Chat, code, search, script—all with zero tab fatigue.
Google just unleashed Gemini 2.5 Pro at the command line—free, open-source (Apache 2.0) , 1-million-token brain baked right into your terminal. Chat, code, search, script—all with zero tab fatigue.