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Robotics software engineer impostor supporting research in manipulation, planning, and learning -- open-source contributor and educator on the side -- mediocre runner, music nerd, anti-influencer/hype/grift -- 🇨🇱🇯🇲🤘 -- roboticseabass.com/about
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The next ROS Deliberation Community Group meeting is Monday, March 3, 2025. * Spotlight: BehaviorTree.CPP / PyTrees / TurtleBot behavior demos * Behavior Tree interpretability survey from Örebro University * Group discussion: Experiences using behavior trees docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Made it through a packed day at the University of Washington. Not only did my robotics colloquium talk go well (I think), but I got to meet a handful of faculty and students, see the robotic manipulation lab space, and not be freezing in Boston. Thanks to Sidd Srinivasa and @adlarkin.bsky.social !

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Fresh article about the RAI Institute! spectrum-ieee-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/spectrum...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Just by switching to using type hints, I've already found a ton of places where better design choices get rid of circular imports. I can't go back to untyped Python... This reminds me of the time I became a believer of unit tests after the first test suite I ever wrote uncovered 3 separate bugs.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I was bored enough tonight to see what it would take to enforce Python type hinting in one of my personal repos. This is gonna take a while...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Okay then.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Got around to watching the latest Karpathy video. Well worth watching for people who aren't super conversant about the LLM ongoings, like me. The RL section was a bit more hand-wavy than the others, but minor criticism of an otherwise amazing piece of educational content. youtu.be/7xTGNNLPyMI?...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I had never read this before, but it's (expectedly) so good. rodneybrooks.com/rodney-brook...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

In preparation for the ROS 2 Deliberation Community Group meeting next Monday, I've put together a simple repository showing the basics of task planning using the AIPlan4EU Unified Planning library. Check it out! github.com/sea-bass/lea...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Great blog post that echoes a lot of my views on OSS, and what sometimes keeps me awake about participating in this ecosystem. Do give it a read.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Whoever thought it was a good idea on Linux to use Ctrl+Shift+C to copy from a console and Ctrl+C to kill the potentially long-running program in said console... is not my friend today.

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

Are you a ROS user and interested in automated planning, behavior abstractions, and high-level robot autonomy in general? I've recently started helping run the ROS Deliberation Community Group, which covers these topics, and our first meeting of 2025 is coming up. discourse.ros.org/t/ros-delibe...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

For the new batch of people flooding in, if you're seeing this post there is some likelihood you may be interested in these starter packs. Open source roboticists and educators: bsky.app/starter-pack... TAMP Camp -- people working on task and motion planning: bsky.app/starter-pack...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Really cool repo based on PyTrees for scenario-based testing! github.com/intellabs/sc...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I know it's not healthy, but sometimes the urge arises to knock out some seriously impressive work just to silence the haters.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

PyRoboSim 3.3.0 is now available! This is the first release where other contributors did most of the work, which is a wonderful thing to see happen. Plus, all these enhancements were also suggested via Git issue by another user. Full release notes: github.com/sea-bass/pyr...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

If an alien civiization capable of communicating with us ever arrives, I would pay money to sit them down with someone trying to explain Kubernetes to them.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Super excited to have been invited to give a talk at the University of Washington Robotics Colloquium. It's on the 21st, not the 14th... but regardless, I'm gonna really have to step my game up given the others speaking at this. 😰

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

I don't know who cares (I do), but Pinocchio 3.x was finally released on PyPi on Jan 4! pypi.org/project/pin/...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

One of the most Massachusetts things I've seen in a while.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I gave my first university talk last October and have another lined up this February. Based on the last talk, it's clear I need to make changes. It was about 80% background and 20% research, but almost all the questions were on the research. As I think about rebalancing the talk... any pointers?

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

As someone who uses their spare time writing educational content this a) is totally unsurprising b) still hurts. Unironically, one would have a better experience just typing the questions into ChatGPT. Good positive feedback loop. youtu.be/-opBifFfsMY?...

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

I've learned that my superpower is literally being too stupid to write complex software. Hey, if it works it works.

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments