gemma4 is really great. results comparable to sonnet 4.6 but costs pennies.

my side project budgets are basically $0, so the new gemini flex pricing in AI.dev is actually saving my life 😅 50% discount if you don't need instant responses! perfect for background agents, batch jobs, or evals while you sleep or go watch robot cage fights 💸👇 ai.google.dev/gemini-api/d...

New paper: “𝐀 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲” Agent-based models of social order work better when agents act by predictive pattern completion from prefix (culture/context) to suffix (action) than when they act through expected value maximization

To anyone encountering Moltbook this week and wondering about AI personhood, consciousness, sentience, etc---we published a very relevant paper in October: A Pragmatic View of AI Personhood. arxiv.org/abs/2510.26396

🚨 🔬 PhD positions at Google DeepMind in France 🇫🇷 We are advertising Master Level Intern positions at Google DeepMind within our Frontier AI Unit. These could lead to co-advised PhD positions with Google DeepMind and French academic institutions. job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

cool class alert @ UW: Prototyping with AI for Performing Arts docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Heads up! 🚨 Mark your calendar for next week! 🚨 More games to be released on the @kaggle.com Game Arena!!! 🎉🙌 See how foundations models perform at poker ♣️♥️♠️♦️ and werewolf 👫🐺!! And more Chess results too! 🧠♟️ 🤩 🤩 🤩

Kaggle@kaggle.com · 6mo ago

📌 Mark Your Calendar: Live Game Arena Event This Monday! We are releasing two new games, Poker and Werewolf, along with an updated Chess leaderboard next Monday, February 2, running daily from 9:30 AM PT to 11:30 AM PT through February 4

@waymo.bsky.social Waymo’s biggest missed opportunity is not being the official chauffeur for everyone under 16. Safe, tracked, and never gets tired of "Golden" on repeat. Let’s make it happen. Waymo Junior.

opendoor, opentable, openai, what else are we going to open?

🙌 Join the Gemini 3 global hackathon for early API access to build next-gen apps! We’ve got $100k in prizes + funding opportunities for the best builds. If you've yearned to start a passion project or to kick the tires on an idea for a company, there's never been a better time. gemini3.devpost.com

If you're are an HCI student navigating the industry job market, here’s my unsolicited take on why you should stop defending 'human-centeredness'. I’m rarely right. Read at your own risk: minsukchang.com/blog/2026-01...

People wanted our Open Source Organizations starter pack to include many projects, so we decided to give them their own starter pack. go.bsky.app/HvKFRKa

Open Source projects

Join the conversation

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Recently went to Goodwill for a ceramic planter. Left with Michelle Obama's autobiography for $2 instead (there were three of them???) Still looking for the planter...

All this just to remind the timeline that Eintracht Frankfurt is the greatest football club on earth. I will die on this hill. 🦅✌️ #SGE

Minsuk Chang@minsuk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In the month of December, Seattle (where I live now) gets 52.9 hrs of sunlight on average, London (where my employer is) gets 52 hrs, Frankfurt (where I grew up) gets 41. Seoul gets 152.6 hrs, more than all three put together.

In the month of December, Seattle (where I live now) gets 52.9 hrs of sunlight on average, London (where my employer is) gets 52 hrs, Frankfurt (where I grew up) gets 41. Seoul gets 152.6 hrs, more than all three put together.

Please welcome Google's Open Source efforts to Blue Sky at @opensource.google!

Okay people. I've achieved Nobel Trajectory on this Tenure-track game (tenuretrack.vercel.app/game2d.html) Kangwook (kangwooklee.com) made. This is going into my faculty application if I ever apply.

Gentle reminder for the RL folks out there: RLC 2026 → Montreal 🇨🇦 (Aug 16–19) Abstract: Mar 1 | Submission: Mar 5 (AOE) | rl-conference.cc/callforpaper... Looking forward to receiving your submission!

I started a crowdsourced meta-project to list all the other crowdsourced mathematical research projects that are currently active and seeking participants: mathoverflow.net/questions/50...

List of crowdsourced math projects actively seeking participants

I believe that with the advent of modern online collaboration platforms (such as Github), proof assistant languages (such as Lean), and (potentially) AI tools, there are many emerging opportunities...

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Trying this place again.

My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally. Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h...

www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2/ric... From almost 25 yrs ago!

Utterance Is Place Enough | Frances Richard

Mapping conversation

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Come be our colleague in the robotics and embodied intelligence center at NYU! 🔷 Professor in Robotics / Embodied AI (Open Rank) apply.interfolio.com/176977 🔷 Faculty Fellow in Robotics / Embodied AI apply.interfolio.com/177077

Physical Intelligence has a recipe for real world RL on top of VLAs and it looks impressive: www.pi.website/blog/pistar06

A VLA that Learns from Experience

A method for training our generalist policies with RL to improve success rate and throughput on real-world tasks.

pi.website

I'm hiring a student researcher for next summer at the intersection of MARL x LLM. If you're a phd student with experience in MARL algorithm research, please apply and drop me an email so that I know you've applied! www.google.com/about/career...

Hundreds of hours of European driving data from NVIDIA! 1700 hours total

Bernhard Jaeger@bernhard-jaeger.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Big day for autonomous driving research. Nvidia just dropped 1700 hours of public driving data on HuggingFace from over 2500 cities: huggingface.co/datasets/nvi...

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS! 1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622 2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

Our NeurIPS submission arxiv.org/abs/2502.08938 did not get in, but it's one of my favorite papers and I think one of the better papers we've ever put out so I want to highlight it

Reevaluating Policy Gradient Methods for Imperfect-Information Games

In the past decade, motivated by the putative failure of naive self-play deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in adversarial imperfect-information games, researchers have developed numerous DRL algorithm...

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Do you have a PhD (or equivalent) or will have one in the coming months (i.e. 2-3 months away from graduating)? Do you want to help build open-ended agents that help humans do humans things better, rather than replace them? We're hiring 1-2 Research Scientists! Check the 🧵👇

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