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Robot Talk @robottalkpod.bsky.social · 19d

Got questions about self-driving cars? 🤖 🚘

Later this season, I'll be chatting to Prof. Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) from @ox.ac.uk and @waymo.bsky.social about machine learning for autonomous vehicles.

Send me your questions for Shimon in the comments below! #Robots #Robotics #AI

A photo of Shimon wearing a blue t-shirt.

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for my team at Waymo Research. Come help us tackle the biggest challenges in autonomous vehicles! careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/machine...

Machine Learning Engineer, AI Foundations - Oxford, England, United Kingdom - London, England, United Kingdom

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building ...

careers.withwaymo.com

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Jul 28

What happened?!?

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · May 19

"In the fight against injustice, winning is a moral duty." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/m...

Rutger Bregman Wants to Save Elites From Their Wasted Lives

www.nytimes.com

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Apr 18

Our survey on meta reinforcement learning has now been published by Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning: nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

now publishers - A Tutorial on Meta-Reinforcement Learning

Publishers of Foundations and Trends, making research accessible

nowpublishers.com

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Apr 16

Just another day at the office.

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Jan 13

In order to set a good example for my students, I feel morally obliged to do as little work as possible.

M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · Jan 13

Let's stop valorising long hours at work:

- overwork is usually unnecessary, the result of poor planning;
- overwork results in poorer work, particularly in creative endeavours;
- overwork harms the worker's mental health e.g. burnout; &
- overwork harms the worker's family.

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Jan 11

I continue to maintain that that is an insane amount of butter. I use 50g and it is already plenty rich.

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Dec 23

Apparently I have not been doing my job?

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Dec 18

Thanks to Frans Oliehoek and Chris Amato for pointing out these issues. Thanks also to Frans Oliehoek and Andrea Baisero for feedback on the revised proof.

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Dec 18

This version corrects an error in the original convergence proof arising from the fact that the critic depended on the state but not the joint history.

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Dec 18

A new version of the paper Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients, that I first published in 2017 with @jfoerst.bsky.social, Greg Farquhar, and others, is now available on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/1705.08926).

Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients

Cooperative multi-agent systems can be naturally used to model many real world problems, such as network packet routing and the coordination of autonomous vehicles. There is a great need for new reinf...

arxiv.org

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Dec 15

The position is London based but the students can come from anywhere.

shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Dec 13

My team at Waymo is hiring two London-based interns for Summer 2025. Please consider applying!

careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su...

careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su...

2025 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Research - Simulation Agents - London, England, United Kingdom

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waym...

careers.withwaymo.com

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Dec 13

What if instead of viewing AI as a separate entity, we treat the human and computer as one cognitive unit that together outperforms either on its own? My prefrontal cortex doesn't fret about delegating visual processing to my visual cortex. I don't fret about delegating navigation to Google Maps.

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · Dec 11

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Dec 11

I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Dec 9

Too late you’re cancelled.

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Dec 8

Who says Mountain Car is not a real world problem?

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shimon8282.bsky.social @shimon8282.bsky.social · Nov 12

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