Mathieu De Coster
@mathieudecoster.com
Postdoc in AI & Robotics at Ghent University-imec. Loves cooking, photography, music, animals and nature
The future of robotics will be Rusty
Mathieu De Coster - The future of robotics will be Rusty
Webpage of Mathieu De Coster
mathieudecoster.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The future of robotics will be Rusty
Reposting this, as if I have bigger reach than @rust-lang.org
Anyway, the world would benefit from more efficient and safe software, that’s for sure. Would love to use more Rust in my job (and so do some of my colleagues)
Anyway, the world would benefit from more efficient and safe software, that’s for sure. Would love to use more Rust in my job (and so do some of my colleagues)
It is time for the annual State of Rust Survey! 📝✨️️
Whether you've just begun using Rust, are an experienced Rust user, stopped using Rust, or might use Rust in the future, we'd like to hear from you! 🦀
Available in ten languages and open until December 17th: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/17/l...
Whether you've just begun using Rust, are an experienced Rust user, stopped using Rust, or might use Rust in the future, we'd like to hear from you! 🦀
Available in ten languages and open until December 17th: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/17/l...
Launching the 2025 State of Rust Survey | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Reposting this, as if I have bigger reach than @rust-lang.org
Anyway, the world would benefit from more efficient and safe software, that’s for sure. Would love to use more Rust in my job (and so do some of my colleagues)
Anyway, the world would benefit from more efficient and safe software, that’s for sure. Would love to use more Rust in my job (and so do some of my colleagues)
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Millennials: “What is wrong with kids today, shouting ‘6 7’ all the time? It doesn’t even mean anything.”
Also millenials: “BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER!”
Also millenials: “BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER!”
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Millennials: “What is wrong with kids today, shouting ‘6 7’ all the time? It doesn’t even mean anything.”
Also millenials: “BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER!”
Also millenials: “BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER!”
New paper: SPILL
Estimating the precise location and fill level of transparent glasses is a challenging task due to refractions and reflections interfering with depth perception.
In SPILL, we present a lightweight keypoint-based glass localizer, underlying our robot bartender demos.
Link below
#AI
Estimating the precise location and fill level of transparent glasses is a challenging task due to refractions and reflections interfering with depth perception.
In SPILL, we present a lightweight keypoint-based glass localizer, underlying our robot bartender demos.
Link below
#AI
November 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New paper: SPILL
Estimating the precise location and fill level of transparent glasses is a challenging task due to refractions and reflections interfering with depth perception.
In SPILL, we present a lightweight keypoint-based glass localizer, underlying our robot bartender demos.
Link below
#AI
Estimating the precise location and fill level of transparent glasses is a challenging task due to refractions and reflections interfering with depth perception.
In SPILL, we present a lightweight keypoint-based glass localizer, underlying our robot bartender demos.
Link below
#AI
Reposted by Mathieu De Coster
Reposted by Mathieu De Coster
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.
www.404media.co
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
I’ve not bought a #Battlefield game since BC2, and today I read BF6 has a queue. Why does it have a queue? Didn’t we solve online play decades ago?
October 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I’ve not bought a #Battlefield game since BC2, and today I read BF6 has a queue. Why does it have a queue? Didn’t we solve online play decades ago?
Today, on the International Day of the #Deaf, the Flemish Sign Language Expertise Centre launched a world-first dictionary search system supporting over 10k signs. It’s based on my #PhD research, continued by a PhD student I’m co-supervising now. Very proud! gebaren.ugent.be Check it out
gebaren.ugent.be
September 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Today, on the International Day of the #Deaf, the Flemish Sign Language Expertise Centre launched a world-first dictionary search system supporting over 10k signs. It’s based on my #PhD research, continued by a PhD student I’m co-supervising now. Very proud! gebaren.ugent.be Check it out
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Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
July 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-...
A bitter lesson I and many others have had too many times, in my #phd, in #gamedev: perfect is the enemy of good
Excellent read!
A bitter lesson I and many others have had too many times, in my #phd, in #gamedev: perfect is the enemy of good
Excellent read!
being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
on starting, doing, being, and becoming.
maalvika.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-...
A bitter lesson I and many others have had too many times, in my #phd, in #gamedev: perfect is the enemy of good
Excellent read!
A bitter lesson I and many others have had too many times, in my #phd, in #gamedev: perfect is the enemy of good
Excellent read!
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We zitten dan wel in een hittegolf, de #PhDCup-inschrijvingsgolf is alvast gaan liggen ⏰ Het bulletin? 80 #doctors dingen naar een plekje in de Vlaamse PhD Cup 2025 🏆
Meer info 👉 www.phdcup.be/nieuws/storm...
Meer info 👉 www.phdcup.be/nieuws/storm...
July 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
We zitten dan wel in een hittegolf, de #PhDCup-inschrijvingsgolf is alvast gaan liggen ⏰ Het bulletin? 80 #doctors dingen naar een plekje in de Vlaamse PhD Cup 2025 🏆
Meer info 👉 www.phdcup.be/nieuws/storm...
Meer info 👉 www.phdcup.be/nieuws/storm...
“Any time I hear the goal being ‘AGI’ in the context of these LLMs, I feel like listening to a bunch of 18th-century aristocrats trying to get to the moon by growing trees.”
I rather like this analogy I found on hackernews. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436...
I rather like this analogy I found on hackernews. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436...
The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“Any time I hear the goal being ‘AGI’ in the context of these LLMs, I feel like listening to a bunch of 18th-century aristocrats trying to get to the moon by growing trees.”
I rather like this analogy I found on hackernews. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436...
I rather like this analogy I found on hackernews. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436...
Upgrade your end of life Windows 10 pc to Linux! endof10.org/nl/
Einde 10
Windows 10 eindigt in 2025. Koop geen nieuwe PC — laat de uwe herleven met Linux. Het is snel, veilige en hulp is beschikbaar om u te laten beginnen.
endof10.org
June 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Upgrade your end of life Windows 10 pc to Linux! endof10.org/nl/
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![5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigzaphhj4mfgfrxddlvdmw47335gnwzqbfqvrnff5x4oovgpf36nq@jpeg)
June 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Windows 10 support is ending and not all PC hardware supports Windows 11. I, for example, have a perfectly good PC at home that cannot upgrade. Better than avoiding a large investment and creating more e-waste? Giving your hardware another 5 to 10 years of life with Linux
The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it’s time to consider Linux and #LibreOffice: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06...
June 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Windows 10 support is ending and not all PC hardware supports Windows 11. I, for example, have a perfectly good PC at home that cannot upgrade. Better than avoiding a large investment and creating more e-waste? Giving your hardware another 5 to 10 years of life with Linux
🍹 Our robot butler, previously featured by VRT NWS (lnkd.in/e_7n4QWC), will serve drinks to attendees of imec ITF World.
🤖 It will do this fully autonomously, from grabbing bottles from the fridge, to detecting glasses, pouring drinks, and discarding empty bottles.
AIRO.ugent.be/itfworld
🤖 It will do this fully autonomously, from grabbing bottles from the fridge, to detecting glasses, pouring drinks, and discarding empty bottles.
AIRO.ugent.be/itfworld
AIRO IDLab Ghent University - imec | Robotic bartenders in human-driven environments
Website of AIRO at IDLab Ghent University - imec.
AIRO.ugent.be
May 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
🍹 Our robot butler, previously featured by VRT NWS (lnkd.in/e_7n4QWC), will serve drinks to attendees of imec ITF World.
🤖 It will do this fully autonomously, from grabbing bottles from the fridge, to detecting glasses, pouring drinks, and discarding empty bottles.
AIRO.ugent.be/itfworld
🤖 It will do this fully autonomously, from grabbing bottles from the fridge, to detecting glasses, pouring drinks, and discarding empty bottles.
AIRO.ugent.be/itfworld
Our robot butler was shown on Monday on national television, serving chocolate milk to passersby. Our work on general purpose robots continues!
Een robotkelner die je drankje serveert? We werken eraan. De volgende iteratie zal te zien zijn op het Imec Technology Forum (20 en 21 mei in Antwerpen) www.imecitf.com/world
vrtnws.be/p.LKPM7mJvK4p
vrtnws.be/p.LKPM7mJvK4p
Een robotkelner die je drankje serveert? Imec en Ugent stomen robots klaar voor menselijke taken
vrtnws.be
April 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Our robot butler was shown on Monday on national television, serving chocolate milk to passersby. Our work on general purpose robots continues!
Reposted by Mathieu De Coster
Neen. Journalisten van The Daily Express hebben een wetenschappelijke paper door Midjourney gedraaid. Wat daaruit komt is geen reconstructie!
Na meer dan 3.000 jaar weten we hoe Toetanchamon er ‘echt’ uitzag, met dank aan AI
Ruim 3.300 jaar na zijn dood krijgt de Egyptische farao Toetanchamon eindelijk een ‘echt’ gezicht met behulp van artificiële intelligentie (AI). Hoewel het gouden dodenmasker van de Egyptische koning…
www.demorgen.be
April 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Neen. Journalisten van The Daily Express hebben een wetenschappelijke paper door Midjourney gedraaid. Wat daaruit komt is geen reconstructie!
Starting a new #robotics codebase in Python just got a little bit easier: AIRO-mono packages are now available on #PyPI! github.com/airo-ugent/a...
GitHub - airo-ugent/airo-mono: Python packages for robotic manipulation @ IDLab AI & Robotics Lab - UGent - imec
Python packages for robotic manipulation @ IDLab AI & Robotics Lab - UGent - imec - airo-ugent/airo-mono
github.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Starting a new #robotics codebase in Python just got a little bit easier: AIRO-mono packages are now available on #PyPI! github.com/airo-ugent/a...
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Met hierin ook een van mijn andere stokpaardjes - software kan ZOVEEL efficiënter, en dat zou ZOVEEL elektriciteit schelen:
tw.nl/hoe-komen-we...
tw.nl/hoe-komen-we...
Hoe komen we aan een onafhankelijk internet? Ingebouwde datalekken bedreigen de digitale samenleving - TW.nl
Terwijl ‘vriend’ Amerika steeds vaker een bedreiging lijkt te zijn, draait nagenoeg de hele Nederlandse samenleving op internetdiensten die al onze data standaard aan de VS uitleveren. TW interviewde ...
tw.nl
April 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Met hierin ook een van mijn andere stokpaardjes - software kan ZOVEEL efficiënter, en dat zou ZOVEEL elektriciteit schelen:
tw.nl/hoe-komen-we...
tw.nl/hoe-komen-we...
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kan je missen als lauwe pis
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WIL JIJ WETEN HOEVEEL JOUW AUTO WAARD IS
kan je missen als lauwe pis
ik zat op YouTube en ik schrok
WIL JIJ WETEN HOEVEEL JOUW AUTO WAARD IS
March 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Een browser zonder adblock
kan je missen als lauwe pis
ik zat op YouTube en ik schrok
WIL JIJ WETEN HOEVEEL JOUW AUTO WAARD IS
kan je missen als lauwe pis
ik zat op YouTube en ik schrok
WIL JIJ WETEN HOEVEEL JOUW AUTO WAARD IS
March 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Tomorrow is the day of my internal defence. Spotify is helping me stay motivated with some excellent Hans Zimmer. I’m ready, bring on your questions! #phdlife
April 18, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Tomorrow is the day of my internal defence. Spotify is helping me stay motivated with some excellent Hans Zimmer. I’m ready, bring on your questions! #phdlife