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Marc Lanctot

@sharky6000.bsky.social

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, interested in multiagent reinforcement learning, game theory, games, and search/planning. Lover of Linux 🐧, coffee ☕, and retro gaming. Big fan of open-source. #gohabsgo 🇨🇦 For more info: https://linktr.ee/sharky6000

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 2d ago

Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma Technical Report They feel text diffusion models open up a radically different part of the latency–quality Pareto frontier and hope the report makes it easier for researchers and engineers to understand the model, build on it, and create things we haven’t thought of

Greg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wikipedia remains one of the most useful things online. No subscription fees, no ads, no stupid pursuit of AI, all curated by relentless nerds. Maybe remember to throw them a few bucks every now and again.

mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 2d ago

The Temptation of St LeCun

A classical oil painting–style illustration depicting an anxious monk holding a scroll labeled "NEXT TOKEN," surrounded by small demon-like imps presenting modern software engineering tools.
In front of the monk, an open book reads "PURE AUTOREGRESSIVE PREDICTION" on the left page and "THOU SHALT NOT CALL UNTOOLS" on the right page, next to a chest labeled "IMPURE: TOOLS, SEARCH, RETRIEVAL, MEMORY, TESTS, AGENTS." The surrounding imps hold framed screens labeled with various AI system extensions: "TERMINAL," "CALCULATOR," "COMPILER," "UNIT TESTS," "WEB SEARCH," "RETRIEVAL," "MEMORY," and "SUBAGENT."
Above the monk, a thought bubble contains an X post from Yann LeCun (@ylecun) reading:
"You obviously did not understand my statement. I was talking about auto-regressive token prediction, which is what pure LLMs do. But good code generation systems aren't pure LLMs and aren't doing mere auto-regressive token prediction."

Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 2d ago

Had a great time @coop-ai.bsky.social summer school yesterday! Learned many new things, was made aware of some great work, and met some people! I got all nostalgic being on UofT campus.. somehow haven't returned to the campus since we left Toronto 14 years ago. Saw some old faves downtown, too 😁🍁🦫🇨🇦

Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tfw your 9yo helps with inspiration for slides

Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 5d ago

Friday vibes... summer of 2026 edition! 🎶🎵 I've always loved instrumental songs. I'll post my top 10 favs (no more than three per artist), one on each Friday until mid-September. 😀 #8. Pixies - Cecilia Ann. youtu.be/V27ISDEbZ_Y?...

Cecilia Ann

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Marc Lanctot@sharky6000.bsky.social · 2w ago

Friday vibes... summer 2026 edition! 🎶🎵 I've always loved intrumental songs. So I'll post my top 10 favs (no more than three per artist), one on each Friday until mid-September. 😀 #9: The Tea Party - Winter Solstice. youtu.be/KgKtNq8r8mc?...

Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 6d ago

Congratulations to Eason Yu, student at #USyd, whose first paper "NashPG: A Policy Gradient Method with Iteratively Refined Regularization for Finding Nash Equilibria" (the product of his MSc research project) was accepted to TMLR (@tmlrorg.bsky.social)! Eason will go on to start a PhD at NTU!

Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · last wk.

@grumpygamer.com announces Thimbleweed Park 2 in the works! 🤩 www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/

Thimbleweed Park 2

Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry

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Lbabinz 🇨🇦@lbabinz.bsky.social · last wk.

Thimbleweed Park 2 announced, 2028 planned release date https://store.steampowered.com/app/4932120/Thimbleweed_Park_2/

GOG.COM @gog.com · last wk.

Retro games deserve the spotlight they earned. 💜 That's why we're proud to support Pixel Arcadia, celebrating retro gaming, preservation, and the people keeping gaming history alive. Join us on August 24!

U of T Department of Computer Science @uoftcompsci.bsky.social · last wk.

A new method from @utoronto.ca computer scientists trains AI faster and more reliably using less data and computing power. This could help bring smarter robots and autonomous systems into everyday life. Learn more: uoft.me/cyu @cvoelcker.bsky.social @igilitschenski.bsky.social

Collage showing robotics simulations and a video game environment used to evaluate an AI training method developed by University of Toronto researchers.

Brokoslaw Laschowski @drlaschowski.bsky.social · last wk.

Come join us in Toronto. UofT is hiring an Associate Professor/Professor and endowed Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence. @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Associate Professor/Professor - Artificial Intelligence

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 2w ago

Season 2 of Dark Matter coming August 28th! youtu.be/zhB6_1UbR7s?...

Dark Matter — Season 2 Official Trailer | Apple TV

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 2w ago

More Friday vibes! My companion for Silo S03E04 🤩 (Not a generated image. I have this thing in my hand as we speak... 😁) 🍺

Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 2w ago

Winter Solstice - The Tea Party

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Marc Lanctot@sharky6000.bsky.social · 3w ago

Friday vibes... summer 2026 edition! 🎶🎵 I've always loved intrumental songs. So I'll post my top 10 favs (no more than three per artist), one on each Friday until mid-September. 😀 #10: Radiohead - Hunting Bears. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AM0...

Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 2w ago

True!! I only discovered the power of coding agents in late April.. because it took a lot of mental effort just to entertain changing the approach anf workflow I have used for 15-20 years... 🥹 Better late than never! 😅

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Jay 🦋@jay.bsky.team · 2w ago

This week, we’re introducing Quests, an interactive research and exploration tool for the Atmosphere. You can ask Attie to pull information about trending topics, identify influential accounts in a particular field, or create a personalized daily briefing.

Introducing Quests

We're introducing Quests in Attie, an interactive research and exploration tool for the Atmosphere, as well as a redesign.

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Vilém Zouhar @zouharvi.bsky.social · 2w ago

Several reviewers with no technical background told me they reviewed for NeurIPS using agents, stating they didn't understand what the work is about. Asked how they could trust the review. They said when the paper hits the socials, the people will catch the errors.

Naomi Saphra@nsaphra.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Peter Henderson
@PeterHndrsn
Several people with no technical background told me they submitted to NeurIPS using agents for all coding—stating they didn't understand what the agent did, nor underlying code.

Asked how they could trust the code/results, they said they assume reviewers will catch any errors.

Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 2w ago

My book, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback is done! This is the book I wish I had when learning to fine-tune, align, & now post-train models since ChatGPT. The resource has been built by me finding time to study and document the fundamentals on nights and weekends since 2024.

AAMAS.2027 @aamasconf.bsky.social · 2w ago

✈️ Save the date! AAMAS 2027 heads to Hanoi, Vietnam 🇻🇳 | May 3–7 The 26th edition of the field's largest conference on autonomous agents & multiagent systems, in one of Asia's most vibrant cities. Follow for CfP, deadlines & program updates. #AAMAS2027 #MultiAgentSystems

Amber 🌸@shimmermathlabs.com · 2w ago

soyjack "they don't know" meme:

They don't know the Jacobian Conjecture is false

Steve Klabnik@steveklabnik.com · 2w ago

Nobody in this river float trip knows that the Jacobian Conjecture is false

norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 2w ago

Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 2w ago

Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Everything C64 @everythingc64.itch.io · 3w ago

I’ve deleted most of my X accounts and am now focusing entirely on Bluesky. If you’re a Commodore 64 fan, I’d love your follow! Thank you for your support! @everythingc64.itch.io #Commodore #C64 #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Bluesky

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 3w ago

Friday vibes... summer 2026 edition! 🎶🎵 I've always loved intrumental songs. So I'll post my top 10 favs (no more than three per artist), one on each Friday until mid-September. 😀 #10: Radiohead - Hunting Bears. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AM0...