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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒

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Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU https://emerge-lab.github.io https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · 23m

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah I'm going to delete this lad, I jumped on it too fast

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1h

Might delete this, it seems to have enough holes that it's causing more confusion than being helpful

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1h

I'm guessing yes, that's being lumped into DoD

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1h

For sure they can, they just prefer not to

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1h

Also the bookmarks feature is great!

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1h

some of my colleagues do not take military funding. It really points a light on how much they are struggling for their values

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 2h

It’s not too bad but it’s a preemptively good thing to do. You’ll occasionally see some nonsense floating around

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent post on how to keep your RL pipeline from sneakily falling apart!

Daphne Cornelisse @daphne-cornelisse.bsky.social · 7h

Rapid RL experimentation is great. But how do you catch silent errors before they slip by?

In this post, I share tools and habits that help me move quickly from idea to result without sacrificing reliability.

How to catch subtle RL bugs before they catch you

Tools and habits for reliable, fast RL experimentation and development

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah this did not occur in my courses even though this is very clear!

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14h

Do it!

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14h

Tbc, props to all the people building this site, no pressure on them, just raising the salience of this

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14h

It’s maybe the one good thing twitter ever did

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14h

Community notes when

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16h

Wikipedia's explanation that it didn't catch on until then because of gender checks out for me

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16h

Apparently 1972?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcas...

THE HISTORY OF ROLLING LUGGAGE

How Today’s Wheeled Suitcase Was InventedWe toss our carry-on luggage into the storage space above our seats when boarding an aircraft without ever thinking about its strategic design that makes trave...

travelpro.com

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16h

a classic and it's a real issue!

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah I aged myself there

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16h

LUGGAGE DIDN'T HAVE WHEELS?!

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 17h

I felt like it did! They ruled out medical advances but huge advances in food quality / availability and wider availability of flying. I agree with the loss of a slower pace but I suspect we'll find our way back to it over time

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 22h

Lot of people should read this exhaustive list of life improvements from the 90s: gwern.net/improvement

My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

gwern.net

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah they are, sadly

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah as a “finding science” mechanism it does okay and maybe that’s enough, it doesn’t have to be the “boosting science” mechanism

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

This specific one would have helped a lot. In controls in undergrad I was continually confused by the emphasis on laplace transforms with no professor ever making explicit why they mattered

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

People stay on twitter because they still correctly understand that it makes their work more visible

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