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Full of childlike wonder. Teaching robots manners. UT Austin PhD candidate. Past: Boston Dynamics AI Institute, NASA JPL, MIT ‘20.
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when you argue with me about control theory this is who you’re arguing with
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this is just a taxi. what you’re describing is a taxi. what are we doing here man.
First day, I got out of the Airport and I saw the ‘Uber Zone’.
Instead of booking an Uber and finding it, you simply book an Uber and go to the first car in the queue of cars, tell your PIN to the driver and off you go to your destination. No waiting time.
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big miscalculation on the admin’s part, “the floor is lava and the consequence is jail” is the kind of loony tunes engineering challenge MIT students salivate for
VP of MIT grad union explaining that they are standing on a ladder because they have been banned from setting foot on campus
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is my code fast? no. but is it well documented? no. but does it work? also no.
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Coming soon! In our effort to capitalize on emerging technology, & to maximize public safety in the subway system, you will soon see our newest rookie, officer K5, patrolling our transit system - offering you an additional layer of security & assistance.
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Overheard in lab meeting: “we can’t build that, I don’t wanna end up on black mirror”
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The south isn’t republican, their voters are just suppressed, oftentimes explicitly. If you see this map and use it to justify feelings of moral superiority, while doing nothing to help dismantle it, you’re allowing yourself to be made complicit in the subjugation of black voters
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I had a physics elective in college where the professor basically went century by century and made us derive astronomical quantities using only information and techniques available to people of the day. size of the earth, distance to the sun, etc. one of the best classes ever.
quick question
without modern technology, how would you prove that the sun and moon have different sizes?
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Today during lab meeting one of the grad students (male) was talking about research that he’s working on with an undergrad (female). Whenever the guy made a point, my advisor would stop and ask the undergrad what her opinion was
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admin: you’re not allowed on the great dome
MIT undergrads every few years:
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(whispers) hey kids... wanna see a murder?
What do you think is the best way to get around town and still do our part to protect our environments?
#WorldEnvironmentDay
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@eiioth
the drivers get paid worse tho. the whole point was that rideshare apps skirt regulations and protections that drivers otherwise have. it’s cheaper primarily because it siphoned VC money for years without returning any real profit. I’m not sure I would call it a better system.
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the end of pride month 😰 goodbye to all my gay friends 🏳️🌈 until next year 😍
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my advisor just started lab meeting by going around the (virtual) table and telling each student what he was proud of them for. damn.
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Secondary note, literally every suggestion from the undergrad was absolutely fire, and we’re lucky to have her in lab
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He made it clear that despite being an undergrad, her opinion was trusted and valued and he actively wanted her input. Additionally, being one of the only women on the call, the advisor made a point of not letting anyone talk over her or drown her out. He does this regularly.
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He doesn’t necessarily vocalize what he’s doing, but the effect is unmistakable: everyone in lab deserves to be there and should be part of the decision making process. Male dominated spaces often talk over their female colleagues, but I’m really glad to see push back
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fucking hate grad students. the professor mentioned this random paper in class and one of the students pasted in chat the url to the paper in 2.3 seconds FLAT
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this is 100% false.
I got Bs in math in middle school. And high school. And college. And grad school. By every metric of success I’ve “made it”- I use advanced math in my PhD research every day. But that doesn’t mean it was always easy or that it’s something you’re born with.
@lordofgummies33
I hate to say it, but as a former physics major, if you actually want to go into physics you should be the kind of person who finds this level of material completely obvious at 9 years old.
It's absolutely worth studying -- but physics only needs people who are math freaks.
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how can we expect machine learning to produce ethical outcomes when purported leaders of the field peddle this sort of sexist bullshit
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the fact that I get ~5 more years of student Spotify+Hulu pricing is worth doing the PhD for alone
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do you have a deep psychological need to balance the center of mass of your egg carton or are you normal?
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fine.
“Twitter is a great place for scientists to share ideas and contribute with people all over the world”
Science twitter:
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I realized when my advisor said I should spend 15 hours a week on a project he meant 3 hours a day and not 15 hours the day before we meet to talk about it each week... much to think about
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Every time I get an email from someone with an “@ nasa.” email address my heart skips a beat. I know I work there now, but it’ll never stop being surreal. I’ve been dreaming about this since I was 6
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this is the best sci comm I’ve seen the entire pandemic oh my god
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by age 30 you should have a nemesis. a mortal enemy. a lifelong antagonist.
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found the hospital where I was born, if I died right now my average velocity would be zero
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you don’t get a PhD so people call you Dr. as a term of respect, you get a PhD so your coworkers (who also have PhDs) call you Dr. as a term of affectionate mockery
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as it gets hotter, remember: she’s not dressed like a slut, you just think like a harasser
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Yeah I peaked in high school. I also peaked in college. Peaked again yesterday. It’s called a concave function luv
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@eiioth
plus there’s a big problem with safety, cab drivers are required to be registered vs there’s a huge market for renting other people’s Uber accounts so they can drive even if they wouldn’t pass the background/safety check, which puts customers in danger and harms trust.
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Research is just reading papers, having a breakthrough idea, and then your advisor telling you it was already done 10 years ago.
You invent the future? Not me, I invent the past. I’m not like other girls
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I’ve been told to lick a rock in at least five different languages and I think that’s really beautiful
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nothing- and I want to be clear about this, NOTHING- about how we fit statistical models to data via back propagation of gradients mimics the biological mechanisms by which humans learn
What’s a common misconception about machine learning that you wish more people understood?
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six of the largest robotics companies in the world just pledged to never build weaponized robots. this is huge!!!
link to the letter:
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Coming soon! In our effort to capitalize on emerging technology, & to maximize public safety in the subway system, you will soon see our newest rookie, officer K5, patrolling our transit system - offering you an additional layer of security & assistance.
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Imagine being my exes, unfollowing me on everything, only to see memes of me licking a rock all over the internet. Damn.
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when I see this kind of thing I have two conflicting gut instincts:
1) this is going to be used to steal a LOT of money, especially from the elderly/people not involved with tech. this has already been happening but this tech will absolutely make it much much worse. BUT
2)🧵
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@chefmaeda
no you’re absolutely right, even as a roboticist the thought of being able to throw bad robots into the sea is immensely soothing
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for the umpteenth time, can all the “move fast and break things” people shut up already? we don’t have to blow up rockets and implode submarines to learn things. unchecked innovation for its own sake is a literal death wish.
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just wrote over 100 lines of code and they worked on the first try
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10:00 am - I have the whole day! anything is possible
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1:00 am - but not today.
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do you think British people do the accent when no one is around?
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if you’re wondering what it’s like being a robotics PhD student, I just unironically told someone “I have a robot due Monday” and zero part of that is an exaggeration
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I’ve seen physicists struggling with this one so I’ll take a crack at it:
to understand electron spin, imagine a ball that is rotating, except it isn’t a ball and it isn’t rotating.
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emailing your advisor at 6am so it looks like you’re an early riser getting to work and not that you stayed awake until 6am like the degenerate you are >>>
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ah yes time for my yearly PSA: do not drink the milliQ water. I know what you’re thinking! “it’s just water!” I also thought this, and paid for my ignorance dearly.
a subterranean neutrino detector partially filled with pure water, water so pure it is essentially toxic
a great place to lose one's sanity
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shut it down boys, apparently I’m a LinkedIn meme now. unacceptable.
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how it stared vs how it’s going IT’S OFFICIAL I PASSED QUALS BABYYYYY
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i just got a letter from my undergrad institution asking for donations, as if i don’t still owe them one hundred thousand dollars.
one.
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I have $7.
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while you’re here, consider doing something kind for a loved one today. cheers!
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for my brother’s birthday we did an 11 Oreo taste test. these were the results:
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ah we finally discover the difference between MEs (right leaning) and AEs (left leaning)
This breakdown of partisanship by legal field makes way too much sense
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Ladies, if he:
- only responds to you every few months
- is stuck looking into the past
- is a staunch relativist
- only gets turned on for BIG curves (in spacetime)
- is 4000 +/- 1m in diameter
That’s not your man. He’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
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petition for the next debate to be on zoom so the host has mute privileges
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relationship hack:
step 1: take your girlfriend to Barnes and Noble
step 2: buy her books
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the fact that my account is big enough to get shit on by twitter randos is so fucking funny to me
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Me talking about doing research: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me actually doing research: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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I firmly believe every person has the ability to learn and love math but that will never happen if they spent their life being told they aren’t cut out for it because it didn’t come easily to them as a 9 year old.
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@Michelle9954
How’s “lets bury robot dogs and teach them to undig themselves. it’ll just look like a sand dune but then it’ll be crawling with robots!”
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must not drink the Milli-Q water. must not drink the Milli-Q water. must not drink the Milli-Q water. must not drink the Milli-Q water. must not drink the Milli-Q water. must not drink the Milli-Q water. must not drink the Milli-Q water. must not drink the Milli-Q water.
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during one of the covid peaks when everyone was online, my advisor noticed that everyone in the zoom lab meeting was visibly stressed, so instead of doing research updates, he went around the zoom call telling each student why he was proud of them and excited about their future
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“all models are wrong but some are useful” ok but what if mine are neither
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please, I’m begging you, someone teach my alma mater how to screenshot
When Google's new translate feature is a game-changer.
(credit: )
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nasa said “hold my beer” holy shit
@joroulette
NASA: "All of this once-in-a-generation momentum, can easily be undone by one party—in this case, Blue Origin—who seeks to prioritize its own fortunes over that of NASA, the United States, and every person alive today"
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doing hot girl shit (deriving that the shortest path between two points in Euclidean space is a straight line)
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they’re literally driving this thing until the wheels fall off 😭
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hey professors! if you have the phrases “obviously, ___”, “needless to say, ___”, or “clearly, ___” in your lecture notes or homework, consider removing them!
these comments are super discouraging if the following claim isn’t obvious, which is won’t be for many of your students
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kinda messed up that they tell us to ignore air resistance and gravity through all of undergrad just to graduate and find out we have to account for air resistance AND gravity??
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me: has a good idea
researcher at a small Russian technical college *8* days ago: published a paper doing exactly that
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i don’t think we truly realize and appreciate how fucking BIG whales are
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