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broke my 100% acceptance rate today 🙃, but happy with the papers that did make it in to #ICML2025 looking forward to sharing more details on them soon, and discussing them with many of you in vancouver this july!

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Today's wordle was talented. Wordle 1,403 2/6 ⬛🟨🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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A lake pretending to be an ocean

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"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them"

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TIL the title of the song "killing me softly with his song" (originally written by Lori Lieberman) came from a line in Julio Cortazar's book "Rayuela" ("Hopscotch" in English): "killing me softly with his blues".

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All these workshops look _so_ good, can't wait to (try to) attend all of them this August!

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Today's wordle left me up top. Wordle 1,395 2/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Applications for the global Google PhD Fellowship Program are open! Fellowships directly support graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in computer science and related fields as they pursue their PhD. Learn more and apply by May 15 at goo.gle/phdfellowship.

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Playing #bach prelude #1 in C major with octave echoes on my #disklavier

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i've loved the artistic style of studio ghibli for many years, but thanks to open a.i. am now starting to get bored and annoyed by it. but hey, new users per hour is up, so lfg amirite??

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if you're at #COSYNE2025 today, come by poster 3-090 to talk to @neurokim.bsky.social @kevinjmiller.bsky.social and me about this work. see you then!

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Following the success of last year's initiative, RL Conference 2025 (@rl-conference.bsky.social) is again having a Journal to Conference track! Accepted TMLR within scope are invited to submit for consideration by May 1! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Having to deal with #ICML2025 rebuttals, #RLC2025 SAC duties, and #ICLR2025 financial aid applications all at the same time... See you all at #Cosyne2025 in a few days!

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This year #NeurIPS2025 @neuripsconf.bsky.social is set to be held in the US. Given how hostile the current government is towards people from other countries, not sure I will be attending.

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

got no real response from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social nor @signal.org on this question, so trying a different approach!

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i get first author equal contribution. i get senior author equal contribution. but second author equal contribution?? 🤣

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Today's wordle stopped me from getting dry. Wordle 1,370 2/6 🟩🟨🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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I'm looking to hire a student researcher to work on an exciting project for 6 months in DeepMind Montreal. Requirements: - Full-time masters/PhD student 🧑🏾‍🎓 - Substantial expertise in multi-agent RL, ideally including publication(s) 🤖🤖 - Strong Python coding skills 🐍 Is this you? Get in touch!

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Thrilled to announce all the #ICML2025 submissions in my batch have 4 submitted reviews, most of good enough quality!

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

Spent the last week in Santiago, Chile, for @khipu-ai.bsky.social . What a fantastic event! Congratulations to the organizers, and was so great to meet old and new friends there!

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Check out this cool work, led by @reggiemclean.bsky.social , where we find that multi-task training can help scale parameters and mitigate plasticity loss in deep RL! More details on Reggie's thread, and even more in paper 😃

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thrilled to finally put out the second release from my musical project "the 45s" with my buddy JS Diallo! open.spotify.com/album/0Eb3vq...

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

👋🏾 @meredithmeredith.bsky.social , been trying to get friends & family to move from WhatsApp to @signal.org . One issue we ran into is that a friend that lives in the UAE can't upload any videos nor can he download any video we send over, but no issues with WhatsApp. Just thought I'd let you know!

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

RL is so back! (well, for some of us, it never really left) awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

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for every year of work at google you're given credit for a 60-minute massage. i used my credits for a 30-minute massage once and hated it, so the minutes have just been piling up. anyway, today, i have 12.5 hours worth of unused massages.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Some extra motivation for those of you in RLC deadline mode: our line-up of keynote speakers -- as all accepted papers get a talk, they may attend yours! @rl-conference.bsky.social

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People who write musical scores, which do you prefer and why: Sibelius, Finale, or Dorico? I like MuseScore , but it isn't great for some more advanced notational things.

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Thrilled to announce that yesterday I hit a major career milestone: During a mixing/mastering session I (unironically) asked the sound engineer if I could have more cowbell!

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I was on the right path for today's wordle Wordle 1,339 2/6 ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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this is insane, this dude wrote an atari 2600 emulator in minecraft! 🤯 youtu.be/mq7T5_xH24M?...

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124 (ducking)

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