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Edouard Leurent

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Research scientist at Google Deepmind generative modeling, rl, birds, poetry, games, robots 📍London 🔗 edouardleurent.com

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Edouard Leurent @eleurent.bsky.social · May 20

Excited to share what I've been up to: bringing text diffusion to Gemini!

Diffusion models are _fast_, and hold immense promise to challenge autoregressive models as the de facto standard for language modeling.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 9d

To the King’s Theatre, where we saw “Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure.

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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 20d

trying to read

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 20d

On the subject of love / I have only a single observation— / if you love a grapefruit, you cut it open // and eat its flesh.

Ben Mirov

For the Faint of Heart

When you return from the asylum
be sure to gaze at the trees
covered in snow. When the train

enters the tunnel ask the waiter
for tea with milk. When in darkness
take seriously the lesson

of fluttering hands. If it is offered
take the class they call Ornithography
for it will teach you something

about love. On the subject of love
I have only a single observation—
if you love a grapefruit, you cut it open

and eat its flesh. Take my advice.
Take it home to your husband or wife.
Slip into bed. Turn off the lights.

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 25d

How to name your method: a comprehensive flow chart

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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · Sep 5

1/5 A poem by Adrienne Rich, 1961, titled "Artificial Intelligence" dedicated to GPS (of Newell and Simon). Eerily prophetic and a great description of LLMs "when they make you write your poetry, later on". On page 136 of this book: www.amazon.com/dp/039328511...

Collected Poems: 1950–2012

Collected Poems: 1950–2012 [Rich, Adrienne, Rankine, Claudia] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Collected Poems: 1950–2012

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · Sep 4

Control problems are everywhere, but some applications of Reinforcement Learning are truly out of this world! 🌌

Our team's latest research @ Google DeepMind in #Science shows RL can improve sensitivity by 30-100x.

See how RL can accelerate cosmic discovery!👇 (Image #nanobanana)
lnkd.in/e8r7t3NJ

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Grace @gracekind.net · Aug 26

Bluesky’s gonna make me take the “we don’t know if its conscious” side of this debate isn’t it

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · Aug 26

No it can't suffer, you shitwits. Stop anthropomorphising a probability engine. There is some truly fucking dreadful coverage of AI, and the idiot Guardian is one of the worst offenders.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 26

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · Aug 26

The "AI is consuming all the water" thing is probably the first time many of us have had to watch a misconception form in real-time while being able to do little about it

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Edouard Leurent @eleurent.bsky.social · Aug 6

Or great egret maybe?

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · Jul 27

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.

(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

Photo of a tv. Onscreen a woman holds an axe with a periodic table visible behind.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Jul 24

Here's a poem by one of the old Chinese scholar bureaucrats that I think captures a certain Vibe very well

Dreams - Su Shi (trans. Arthur Waley)

Families, when a child is born
Want it to be intelligent.
I, through intelligence,
Having wrecked my whole life,
Only hope the baby will prove
Ignorant and stupid.
Then he will crown a tranquil life
By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Jul 21

It is has not ceased to be weird that I can put Rilke’s First Elegy into Suno and get out a coherent 8 minute performance with music (can only do 3 here)

You might not like the interpretation, but it is genuinely amazing that this audio, with apparent emotion, is all 100% AI from the verses alone.

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Edouard Leurent @eleurent.bsky.social · Jul 10

Je crois qu’une loi à cet effet vient déjà d’être votée ? www.service-public.fr/particuliers...

Démarchage téléphonique : les nouvelles règles

Le démarchage pour la rénovation énergétique est désormais interdit

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Jun 21

It's #WorldGiraffeDay! 🦒 When we celebrate the tallest animal on the longest day (or night) and raise awareness about the threats faced by this incredible animal. For more beautiful giraffe images, check out our giraffe collection on #Flickr: www.flickr.com/search/?user... #StandTallForGiraffe

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Edouard Leurent @eleurent.bsky.social · Jun 20

Vu dans le centre de Londres il y a 5 jours (mort)

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Grace @gracekind.net · Jun 8

Wow

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · Jun 9

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Edouard Leurent @eleurent.bsky.social · Jun 6

Utiliser les mesures du gyroscope pour estimer et corriger les rotations ?

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · Jun 5

Figure sorting packages with Helix, their end to end action model. The robot flips packages to scan them and flattens them out. The future is approaching fast

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · May 30

Good news, falcons have never been more free.

Bad news, anarchy is loosed upon the world, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned

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Simone Conradi @sconradi.bsky.social · May 28

Stochastic vs deterministic Lotka-Volterra: smooth theory vs randomness! Individual realizations (Gillespie algorithm) show populations can crash or go extinct despite stable deterministic cycles or equilibrium. Randomness changes everything! 🦌🐺🧪
Made with #python #numpy #scipy #matplotlib

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · May 25

Icarus Truth

Rest of comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/icarus-2

#smbc

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · May 24

The 5 Worst Jobs in Omelas (You Won’t Believe #1)

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Edouard Leurent @eleurent.bsky.social · May 22

(Any resemblance to real events is purely coincidental)

Edouard Leurent @eleurent.bsky.social · May 22

Writing a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER with Gemini Diffusion and its Instant Edit tab

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