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Tristan Slominski
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Hello o/ Creator of https://mapkeep.com. Building sensorimotor intelligence @thousandbrains.org.
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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 11d
🚀 New Video Series: Community Videos!

First up: Collin & @tristanls.bsky.social dive into adding CUDA GPU support to Monty’s HypothesesUpdaters, with a proposed high-level API + open issues to tackle.

Watch here 👉 youtu.be/eFmIK16B5kQ
2025/08/28 GPU Support Meeting
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 20d
Pflugerville Purrpfect Pawtners Cat Rescue

Make it happen #pflugerville
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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · 21d
🚀 Help us build an open source platform.

Remote, impactful, collaborative.

Find out more:
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#SoftwareEngineering #RemoteJobs
Staff Software Engineer
As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 23d
Incidentally, this short 4 minute video triggered in me a fundamental insight into why quaternions work: an embedding in a higher-dimensional space with one constraint avoids singularities or discontinuities when representing the embedded space.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgJ...
Modern Robotics, Chapter 2.3.2: Configuration Space Representation
YouTube video by Northwestern Robotics
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 25d
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 26d
I'm looking for a full-time remote Staff Software Engineer to join our team in building an open-source platform.

thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Staff Software Engineer
As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · 26d
I'm looking for a full-time remote Staff Software Engineer to join our team in building an open-source platform.

thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Staff Software Engineer
As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...
thousandbrains.org
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · Aug 26
You've heard of conventional commits, you've heard of conventional comments... behold: conventional responses.

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Conventional Responses
Responses that are easy to emote and convey how you actually feel
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · Aug 21
Are you a software developer who wants to work on AI but doesn't have the classic Machine Learning / LLM / deep neural network experience? Then, I'm looking for you...

I'm looking for traditional software engineers to build our sensorimotor intelligence platform.

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Open-Source Software Engineer
As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...
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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Aug 13
🚨 Question: How did you build something radically different than deep learning?

youtube.com/shorts/4cfxP...

Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...

#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI
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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Aug 8
🚀 From LEGO bricks to neocortical-robotic AI.

We built a robot with tower-mounted RGB+depth sensors & a rotating platform, powered by Monty + Raspberry Pis, to scan real-world objects in 3D.

🎥 Watch the build, debug, train & demo: youtu.be/_u7STtACQ50

#Robotics #AI
2025-05 LEGO Robot Presentation and Demo
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · Aug 5
I'm hiring again at @thousandbrains.org

I'm looking for an experienced software engineer to join us in transforming our groundbreaking research into a platform that will enable people worldwide to run Monty and apply sensorimotor intelligence to their problems.

thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Open-Source Software Engineer
As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · Jul 30
They couldn't be taught otherwise and LLMs won't improve at truth nomotherships.substack.com/p/the-unrema...
The (un)Remarkable Nature of ChatGPT: A Justification Machine in Action
I recently stumbled on a very useful framing that really put ChatGPT in perspective for me.
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · Jul 23
Hi, how can I help?
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · Jul 20
A must-watch talk from @scott.hanselman.com. Scott and I are of the same vintage, and I am embarrassed (mortified!) by how revolting some of our generational peers have become. Technology still has a unique power to improve our lives, but wow, do we ever have work to do. youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · Jul 18
It occurred to me that it used to be difficult to convince "the business" that 100% SLO was not achievable. No defects was so difficult to counter. I'm amazed how much LLMs flipped the whole thing on its head and nobody cares anymore 😄.
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · Jul 16
Hey o/

... in that case, dissapointment at all the things embedding vectors and neural networks can't do.
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · Jul 16
For you, or for ML? For ML it's gonna be sensorimotor intelligence based on the neocortex bsky.app/profile/thou...
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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Jul 15
🎥 Watch @cortical-canonical.bsky.social present our new paper:

"Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning and Inference"

Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/3d4DmnODLnE

Sensorimotor learning implemented from 20 years of neocortex research.
2025/07 - Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid Robust Learning and Inference
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · Jul 13
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Jul 11
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🚨Another New Paper Drop! 🚨 “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain”

👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Jul 10
🔥 Want to understand how the neocortex builds intelligence?

Artem Kirsanov made a great video on the Thousand Brains Theory, the foundation of everything we’re building at here Thousand Brains Project!

🎥 youtu.be/Dykkubb-Qus
#Neuroscience #AI #ThousandBrains #Neocortex
A Fundamental Unit Of Intelligence
YouTube video by Artem Kirsanov
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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Jul 9
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🚨 New Paper Drop 🚨
We’ve released “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference” — the first working implementation of a thousand-brains system, code-named Monty.

👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Jul 9
Many people think of the brain as a hierarchical system, and in many ways it is. But there is also a lot of non-hierarchical processing going on. Check out this pre-print where we review and propose functional roles for the different long-range connections in the neocortex 🧠
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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Jul 9
New paper dropped! “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain” The Thousand Brains Theory explains the cortex’s non-hierarchical connections, and why they matter for building machine intelligence.

Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · Jul 9
Latest updates to the Thousand Brains Theory!
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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Jul 9
New paper dropped! “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain” The Thousand Brains Theory explains the cortex’s non-hierarchical connections, and why they matter for building machine intelligence.

Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Jul 8
Super excited to share our new paper! We spent the past years building an alternative AI approach, and now we demonstrate a whole range of advantages. Robust object & pose detection, generalization, data and compute efficient training, continual learning, shape bias, intelligent policies, and more!🦾
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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Jul 8
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The first paper: “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference”, is out now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494. It showcases our first working system, codename Monty.
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Niels Leadholm @cortical-canonical.bsky.social · Jul 8
Ok this is one I've been really excited to share - our pre-print demonstrating the capabilities of thousand-brain systems is now out 🧠🚀 It gives a great overview of why we believe the approach we're taking is so promising. Rapid and continual learning leading to rapid and...
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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Jul 8
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This week, we’re releasing two milestone papers: one shows the amazing capabilities of thousand-brains systems and their benefits over deep learning, the other proposes a new theory of long-range connections in the neocortex. Years of work led to this.
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