living in a city where the river never freezes >>>

Rowing when the water is calm: smooth, elegant, like a ballerina

Rowing when the water is choppy: arggh ye matey we be a pirate crew now 🏴‍☠️

My Spotify wrapped. contains the Dune soundtrack. And the fucking Sonic the Hedgehog official video game sound track. What the fuck.

I wish media did a better job framing “scaling laws” for lay folks.

they’re empirical best-fit models on a log scale. 10% more data doesn’t help you, you need 10x.

tale as old as time

you’re all RL researchers, you just don’t know it yet 😈

could 20 million skeeters be wrong? 🦋

caught my first crab in years today 🥰🦀🚣

never bring a whiteboard to an after party and ask me a question about Langevin dynamics unless you’re prepared to get a lecture

Intro post- hi!

I’m a 5th year PhD at UT Austin working on safety & interpretability for robots working in human spaces. Currently I mostly do locomotion, but am starting to do some fun (humanoid) locomanipulation stuff before I graduate in a few semesters. Excited to see so many cool people here!

POV: you’re rushing the slide and the coach makes sure everyone knows it

visiting gab this weekend… g-d knew I needed a win.

when you argue with me about control theory this is who you’re arguing with

I’ve made it far enough in my math career that we use numbers, English letters, Greek letters, and now playing card suits 😵‍💫

“oh yes just take the conjugate transpose of the ace of diamonds”
- real “math” done by real “mathematicians”

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #23,651!

Who else remembers hellthread lol

u rn

sometimes if I’m feeling too based I’ll dab and T pose just to remind myself what it’s like to be cringe

I hear this is how they’re deciding who to send invites to