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Multimodal Agents Research @ Orby AI. Ex-AWS AI, JD AI. PhD from @stanfordnlp.bsky.social, UG Tsinghua U. He/him. Opinions my own.

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When people ask me about good intro audiobooks, I've always recommended The Martian, which is one of my personal sci-fi favorites accompanied with a voice performance that truly brought the story to life. Now I'll be adding James (by Percival Everett, performed by Dominic Hoffman) to my personal rec

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Top 6 jobs LinkedIn recommended for me: * VP of AI at a unicorn public company * Applied AI Engineer II at a F50 company * Applied Scientist II at a F10 co. * Research Intern at a F50 co. * Senior Principal Applied Scientist at a F500 co. * Senior Director of Applied Science at a F500 co. Who am I?!

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Thanks to Google, my name is now Robin (@robinjia.bsky.social) and I work at USC as a CS professor. (Or that Robin took my name and worked at Amazon 🤣 )

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We are looking for strong candidates for Research Scientist and Research Engineering roles at Orby AI. Join us to define the next generation of foundation models and AI agents for GUI automation! As an RS, you'll work towards defining groundbreaking research problems and leading the team in ...

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Happy New Year everyone! Jim and I just put up our January 2025 release of Speech and Language Processing! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

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Chinese #languagelearners of Korean should srsly consider detouring to Japanese first: some basic pronunciation and Kanji vocabulary can go a long way in helping you associate Korean words with its underlying Hanja. I'd never have remembered 일 월 화 수 목 금 토 without learning about 日月火水木金土 first.

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#NLProc is hard. I read this trending topic on Twitter, and it took me a full minute before I think I got the correct parse. Is this what #LLMs feel when they read technical stuff they outside of their training data?

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@kyunghyuncho.bsky.social's blog post on anxiety and frustration at #NeurIPS (https://buff.ly/4fN4Hah) has provided deep insight into the recent history of the AI boom and the angst many PhD students are facing. I'd like to echo 2 points I find myself agreeing a lot with Kyunghyun and expand a bit.

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A few months ago, I started a series of blog posts to explain what it is like to work as a researcher in the industry in the hope of documenting some useful information for those facing this potential transition (especially junior folks). Today, I've published the last part 🧵

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Reflection: Building intelligent #AIAgents has a lot in common with developing an exciting professional career (or maybe even personal life), where the tasks you are exposed to today matter a lot to your growth and your ability to take on more challenging tasks in the future. 1/n

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As 2024 comes to a wrap, I thought I'd share one of my favorite non-fiction books this year for whomever looking for a good read for the Holiday Season. 🧵

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Mathematicians since the dawn of numbers: "a + b = b + a" regardless of what "a" and "b" are, simple as that. We build entire fields (pun intended) from simple facts like this. Computer scientists in the era of #AI boom: I'm not so sure about that...

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We are looking for highly motivated junior researchers to work with @OrbyAI on GUI #Agent related research problems in Summer 2025! We are excited to tackle cutting-edge problems concerning agents, multimodal models, interactive assistants, and beyond, eyeing top-tier research publications 1/n

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We are looking for highly motivated junior researchers to work with @OrbyAI on GUI #Agent related research problems in Summer 2025! We are excited to tackle cutting-edge problems concerning agents, multimodal models, interactive assistants, and beyond, eyeing top-tier research publications 1/n

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As the Greater #Seattle Area enters its fourth day of massive electrical/utilities #outages from the #BombCyclone that's still affecting 100ks of people, taking a moment to reflect on the engineering marvels that are the modern infrastructure we have come to rely on day-to-day without thinking. 1/n

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𝘿𝙤 𝙒𝙚𝙗 𝘼𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙩𝙮𝙡𝙚 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙚𝙥? A core challenge in developing a reliable #AIAgent is the ability to simulate potential outcomes of agent actions, especially at inference time, to guide robust planning and search. 1/n

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