Ryan Hickman @ryanmhickman Twitter profile

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

3 years

@JoshuaOgundu I worked for Capital One in the late 90's and they made ALL employees take some customer service calls.☎️ It was ALWAYS a positive in helping everyone at the company understand customers better.👍

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💰 My comp would be $1.3M/yr if I was still with NVDA 😞 Absolutely hated being on the Omniverse team but perhaps I should have quiet-quit like so many of my peers had 🤔

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@EricaJoy I'm a Google TPM (technical program manager) and I've completely backed off pushing anyone for milestones or deadlines right now. I'm into "enabler mode", helping people where they need it. Keeping busy is good and many people want to work. That's up to them though.

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@SciGuySpace Sadly, their attempts to make this mission "inspirational" are failing hard on the general public. Space fans on Twitter follow intently, but zero people I've talked to knew about this mission or have any clue what's going on. The exclusive to Netflix was a bad call IMO.

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@AkkiJ_ @ArlanWasHere

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1 year

Resharing with the video embedded to better show the incredible detail in this humanoid.

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1 year

@CKohstall let me NeRF his wild new affordable humanoid robot that uses LLMs and vision-in-the-loop to interact with you 👀👊

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@bilawalsidhu I remember the privacy team at Google pushing back on Project Tango/ AR Core making maps of your home: "how can we make this completely uninteresting to the FBI?" Government requests were a huge burden in 2014 and I'll bet it's even worse now. Kudos to Apple for this path.

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3 years

Wanna know how Boston Dynamics robots do those feats of fitness? This is a really excellent dive into the HW and SW behind the scenes, and some transparency around the question of how much is model based vs learned. h/t to @erwincoumans for the link

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8 months

@ylecun (5) bad actors will use them for VERY bad things We don't need an AI to go rogue to be worried

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2 years

@TDeryugina Ouch, point #2 is quite relevant to the US too 😬

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3 years

This is insane. I expect this situation all the time as I test unreleased versions of Android and Google apps. The consequences are that sometimes my TV or phone misbehaves. To test a safety system for a lethal vehicle like this is beyond acceptable. FSD should be halted.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

3 years

Seeing some issues with 10.3, so rolling back to 10.2 temporarily. Please note, this is to be expected with beta software. It is impossible to test all hardware configs in all conditions with internal QA, hence public beta.

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@RyanMaue Isn't this *exactly* what's predicted from a warming climate: "Global extremes" for weather?

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3 years

Neural Radiance Factorization (NeRFactor) is pushing NeRF into next level territory. This tech is still "researchy" but in 1-2 years, every game engine or product from Adobe & Autodesk, is going to need to figure out their "neural representation" story.

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Ryan Hickman

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1 year

🫡 All done for the day as I say farewell to NVIDIA 🟢 🤝 Met a lot of awesome people that I hope to cross paths with again. Now it's time for a Summer break 🌴 and then onto new adventures 🧭

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2 years

Next stop NVIDIA! 🎉 I've always been a fan, but this recent talk by Jensen seriously caught my attention as he spent 100 minutes talking in depth about tons of things I love 🤩

GTC 2022 Spring Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang kicks off #GTC22 with a keynote that presents the latest breakthroughs in #AI, data science, high performance computing, graphics, ed...

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2 years

Sports Page is gonna be wild today! 🍻🥤🍹

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5 years

These @diyrobocars are getting fast! This was at today's event at @circuitlaunch where teams raced their unique cars head to head using different machine learning approaches. Thanks for leading this amazing community @chr1sa !

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6 years

My startup TickTock is no longer a thing, but we sure had fun trying to break through in the consumer robotics space with some clever new ideas.

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@ylecun OMG, did @ylecun just "the only way to stop bad guys with guns is to arm good guys with guns" on me!?!? 🤯

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4 years

@alicia_brooke @ReignOfApril @disneyplus @Disney @Marvel @MarvelStudios @MayaRupert @theblackpanther Is it a "tribute" if it airs with commercials, or simply taking advantage of his death? 🤔

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3 years

@considercosmos @SpaceX @elonmusk Dumb question: how is all that gear hanging on the outside expected to survive supersonic flight?

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6 years

@mattcutts Yes to this! Gmail also needs a recommendation feature: "Based on your unsubscribes, you might also like unsubscribing from..." 😝

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2 years

@jcj Sorry to hear that, Jeremy. For those in MTV, this may be how many folks get to say goodbye

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2 years

Sports Page is gonna be wild today! 🍻🥤🍹

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3 years

Interview candidate asked me: "how does Google make decisions about what to work on?" 🤔 Answer: "I've only worked here since 2007 so I'm too new to have figure that out yet." 🤣

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2 months

👼 Every time the head of NVIDIA's advanced robotics research throws Omniverse under the bus, an angel gets its wings 😝

Jim Fan

@DrJimFan

2 months

We've found a cozy home for our robots in the world of bits! RoboCasa: a place where robot arms, dogs, and humanoids can train safely for daily tasks in procedurally generated simulations. It's all open-source, check it out in Yuke's thread!

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2 years

👀 Panoptic Neural Fields (PNF) was really impressive to watch in development. Very talented team across different parts of the Google Research org that came together to pull this off 👍🧠

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2 years

Panoptic Neural Fields projects site is up, with lots of videos, gifs.

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Ryan Hickman

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6 years

@semil Founder: "If you don't want to fund it now, then you don't really like it."

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2 months

@pronounced_kyle @Brodie_Friesen Is that because playing baseball with balls of uranium shortens your lifespan? 🤔😜

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Ryan Hickman

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3 years

"My spouse says they do machine learning for self-driving cars, but all I hear them talk about is Transformers"

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@PhDinProgress17

3 years

My husband just came up with a podcast idea: academic spouses talk about what they think their partners’ work is about. 🤣

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@michae1becker The quiet-quit was real! 50+ people on weekly product calls where only 2-3 folks turn on their cameras and talk 🤐 Why? Because bringing up issues or suggesting new ideas would result in your head being chopped off by the top of the food chain 🪓 Survival required silence 🤫

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Ryan Hickman

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4 years

I'm growing tired of fighting for projects to exist in a big company. Turns out the VC community is much easier to work with and there are more options for funding. Too many times a single VP is all it takes to poor cold water on an idea.

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3 years

@NASASpaceflight @BocaChicaGal SpaceX really embracing Texas culture

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4 years

@ken_goldberg If there ever was a time when we needed more robots, it's now. They could provide safety for our critical supply chains and production. If there was ever a time for humans to be uniquely, human, it's also now. With the care, comforting, and social connections that robots lack.

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3 years

@CDCgov CDC says bearded dragons can return to petting zoo's after 5 days if their symptoms are clearing up

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Ryan Hickman

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4 years

@samdolnick @gmail To help newsletter readers, Google should call the tab "Reader". Content should be sent out (syndicated if you will) via something really simple. To be catchy we'd give it an acronym like RSS.

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4 years

@sama Home robots. More specifically, appliances will become smarter and more actuated, essentially turning the home into a swarm of connected robots. Free roaming mobile manipulators are still 10yrs off but will compliment intelligent infra. Home building will also be automated.

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7 months

But I thought USD assets and RTX Ray Tracing were the future 🤣🤣🤣

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7 months

SMERF has the best of both worlds: we produce renders nearly indistinguishable from Zip-NeRF while rendering at 60 fps or more on desktops, laptops, and even recent smartphones, all while scaling to scenes as big as a house! (3/n)

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3 years

Let's see a robot do this...🤪

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4 years

We had a surprisingly strong turnout tonight for Halloween in Sunnyvale, CA. Delight and entertainment won over frights and scares. 🎃 @atmosfx vids were a hit, especially the new singing pumpkins my wife added this year.

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2 years

@ak92501 Have you tried following @ak92501 ? Not sure how much time it takes, but I find them super helpful in surfacing cool new papers 😉

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3 years

@SCCgov The key word here is "precaution". If masking keeps businesses open while saving lives, you gotta be a bit selfish to fight against such a minor inconvenience so I'm all for it 👍😷

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@bradneuberg Artist driven USD content is the wrong approach for AI & robotics but OV was built on that at the core. Now they're bolting on AI tools instead of starting something else from scratch. DriveSim may end up doing that like Wayve and Waabi 🤷

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@OlegMuratov Awful leadership is why I left, but the product was hella buggy and built on the wrong architecture for the AI era I heard Jensen did reorgs and the neural reconstruction focus of DriveSim may lead to new things at GTC Isaac Sim has a different org chart and may save the biz 🤷

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@karanganesan @threejs @glTF3D Fun fact: the Google Scanned Objects project started with the Galaxy Nexus launch, testing a photorealistic 3D model using WebGL in late 2011 😁 Also using @threejs with help from @mrdoob 😉

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📸 3 meter selfie stick + @insta360 RS1 at #MontereyCarWeek Exotics on Broadway 😁🏎️

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3 years

@NoahShachtman @deray @RollingStone I worked security on opening day of Raymond James Stadium in 1998. Showed up a few days before to prove I could fog a mirror and sign paperwork. Zero training. Got a great view of the Buccaneers game that was Impossible to get into otherwise.

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3 years

@youyanggu @ashleevance @BW Covid models are the focus but what I'm most impressed with about @youyanggu is his communication skills. The site design, data visualization, pro level Twitter comms, and public FAQs to explain his assumptions and sources.

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5 years

@BossierS Had a genuine crackhead break into my house multiple times in the 80's. He was eventually caught. I don't know where he is now but I imagine there's something more valuable he could be doing for society than sitting in jail. People deserve second chances.

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4 years

@Gillis57 @therealfitz think of all the USB drives that were left behind today or inserted into unattended desktops....🤔🤯

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5 years

Can we stop using "it's a marathon, not a sprint" when talking about businesses pacing themselves? This dude ran a 4:34/mile pace for two hours. Sprinting is how you win marathons and break history!

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6 years

Can't wait for everyone to shoot live shots like this via AR. It requires having a ntext beyond the current camera FOV, which isn't there yet.

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3 years

Cool project from NVIDIA and UMN that does novel view synthesis using some decade-old 3D assets from my team in Google Research 😊

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@ryanmhickman

5 years

We let the NY Times into the Robotics at Google lab, and they wrote a thing. Nice to show off some of the work being done with bots from @FetchRobotics and @Universal_Robot among others.

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1 year

Welp, the folks at @LumaLabsAI got me to try writing code again for the first time in a decade. 💻🤪 Honestly, I didn't write it -- ChatGPT and Copilot did 🤯

Luma AI

@LumaLabsAI

1 year

✨Today we are releasing the Luma Video-to-3D API giving developers access to world's best NeRF 3D modeling and reconstruction capabilities. At a dollar a scene (or object). Our first step to internet-scale 3D 🚀 Get started with free credits:

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I'm thrilled to be joining the Omniverse group and can’t wait to meet the team and help partners with synthetic data and 3D simulations! I'm also relieved to have found another company that builds tent-like campuses🎪, just down the road in Santa Clara so I can still 🚴‍♂️ to 🏢😁

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5 months

People say Jensen is visionary, but what he's actually phenomenal at is pivoting fast AF!! 🏃🔀 I witnessed him respond to criticism from a big cloud provider that giant monolithic GPUs weren't well suited for their distributed systems with "we'll build whatever they need"

Andrew Curran

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NVIDIA is forming a new division to create bespoke chips for customized AI applications, and has met with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google and OpenAI to discuss making custom chips specifically for their agents.

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@tmprowell Sure, they human saved lives, but what about the economy? 💰🤔 Oh, that's going strong too?! 📈🤑

NZ economy surges as housing, retail drive post-COVID recovery

New Zealand's economic growth swept past forecasts in the first quarter on the back of a housing boom and strong retail spending, avoiding a second recession and bringing forward expectations for...

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Wow, this is like a time machine 👀 Hollywood types: what would this shot cost if filmed IRL today?

Greg Brockman

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Announcing Sora — our model which creates minute-long videos from a text prompt:

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@RyanMaue 🌧️ Really makes desalinization seem ridiculous when you can just trap all this water with ancient tech like dams 🤔

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1 year

Another render using @LumaLabsAI of Mona the humanoid robot by @CKohstall He has more classical videos of it in action here:

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@ryanmhickman

3 years

@WHarper10 @SpacePadreIsle @SpaceX Thinking about a career change? How about mixing drinks at Starbase? 🤔🍹🍸🍺🍾🧉

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5 years

Sadly, we aren't going to live in a world of general purpose robots. I've done some digging and wrote a thing on why. I'd be happy to be proven wrong if you've got ideas.

We Aren’t Going to See General Purpose Robotics, and Here’s Why

I’ve always had a fascination with Disney’s Fantasia. I wasn’t alive when it came out in 1940, but watched it countless times and dreamed…

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5 months

@Scobleizer Have you seen this new sensor array with a more tapered look on top? I've been seeing more like this in Sunnyvale.

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@justinhedge @ylecun Yeah, Yann is being ridiculous, but probably sticking to Meta's approved "talking points". Mutually assured destruction only works for nation states. Terrorists, and even aggressive hackers/spammers, have asymmetric risk calculations.

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6 years

@satyanadella I love how Microsoft understands the power of strong partner engineering. You can't just throw "AI" APIs online and hope people use them.

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2 years

It's Return to Office (RTO) week! 🎉 So far it's mostly a ghost town. Had to bike around more shuttle busses than cars on the way in. Tomorrow is the big test as folks want Tue-Wed-Thu as their 3 office days. Best of luck to those who brave the 101 🤞

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4 years

@ylecun @tdietterich @RichardDawkins @ylecun new studies would be great. Hope you are offering datasets externally for this type of work. But, you just need to have friends or family with low critical thinking skills to see the negative effects directly. The radicalization process is right there to witness on FB.

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@ryanmhickman

3 years

@trvrb Is it possible to be infected with both simultaneously? If the air is full of Delta and Mu from infected persons and you breath it in, could both variants start replicating internally as part of one infection?

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@ashleymcnamara I've been called Honey Badger, but in a positive way. Honey Badger don't care, he'll hold people accountable and ask hard questions. When women do the same thing they are called "trouble" 🤔🤨 Labels matter and Honey Badger says the bias in them needs to go!

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@johnkrausphotos @SuperclusterHQ @ulalaunch @torybruno @LucyMission I would watch a Netflix special on how @johnkrausphotos produces these amazing shots! Launch windows, orbital insertion trajectories, weather forecasting, location scouting, equipment used, settings, post processing...it's all... magic! 🪄📸

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3 years

Had four in-person work meetings in the past week and energy levels were 100x better than being on a Meet/Zoom!!! The best part about it is not having to move to Miami. Turns out the Bay Area is still awesome for getting together 😉

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I had over a dozen interventions per hour when I borrowed a Tesla Model 3 w/ FSD (similar to vid below) I highly suspect that the current sensors and compute will never get there, while remaining optimistic in Tesla long-term with future vehicles

Elai🥥🌴

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These guys are trying to prove that Tesla FSD is better than Waymo and their car attempts to murder them no less than 3 separate times lmfao You gotta see the ending too

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@lapetiteemily @alicia_brooke @ReignOfApril @disneyplus @Disney @Marvel @MarvelStudios @MayaRupert @theblackpanther To me, a tribute would be deferring those ad buys to another timeslot or better yet, replacing them with non-profit promotions for causes Chadwick cared about.

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3 years

Won't be long before all machine perception moves to 3D. In 2030, will ML solution that focus on 2D arrays of pixels be like "flat Earthers" are today? 🤣🤔

Google AI

@GoogleAI

3 years

Announcing the release of TensorFlow 3D, a set of training and evaluation pipelines for state-of-the-art 3D semantic segmentation, object detection and instance segmentation, with support for distributed training. Check it out and download the code at

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ML engineer at NVIDIA heard synthetic data isn't good for ground vehicles. What does this say about Omniverse? 🤔😉

Bojan Tunguz

@tunguz

8 months

@StephanSturges I don’t know about UAVs, but for ground vehicles I’ve heard it’s not good.

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Wanna see what robotics actually look like today? I shot this video at the ATX West conference in 2019, and sped it up into a 5min highlight reel of what automation really looks like. Let's see a humanoid do what that last robot does! #robots #TeslaBot

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@OlegMuratov Awful leadership is why I left, but the product was hella buggy and built on the wrong architecture for the AI era I heard Jensen did reorgs and the neural reconstruction focus of DriveSim may lead to new things at GTC Isaac Sim has a different org chart and may save the biz 🤷

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@apsmunro Learned about RSV the hard way, with a stay at Stanford Hospital for our 6wk old, who thankfully recovered. First kid was a Spring baby, but this one arrived at the peak of cold and flu season. Wish we had been more cautious for a few months. Excited for RSV + flu + Covid vax!

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This is because Jensen doesn't understand what 1:1's are for. They aren't about project updates and general business, they are for personal development. I can personally attest to at least one of his SVPs sorely needing coaching akin to what Bill Campbell provided Larry & Sergey

Startup Archive

@StartupArchive_

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: “I really discourage 1-on-1s” Jensen famously has 60 direct reports. When Stripe founder Patrick Collison points out that this isn’t conventionally considered best practice, Jensen shares his reasoning: “I don’t do 1-on-1s, and almost everything I say,

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Wonder where this use case came from?🤔

Humane

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9 months

This is the Humane Ai Pin

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2 years

Robots, robots, lots of robots, then BAM! a friggin wiring harness - bring in the humans!

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@ryanmhickman

4 years

Two cars just drove by my house and got captured on the Nest cam. One is from Apple's self-driving car program and the other has a mattress on the roof. Can you tell them apart? 🤔😉

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Halloween success! 🎃🎉 🍫🍬 1,500 pieces of candy 🍺🥤100 waters, juices, and beers 🧊 35lbs dry ice + 2 gallons fog juice Hundreds of happy smiles and a few good screams ☺️😱👍

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@ryanmhickman

5 years

Do you love or hate the idea of robot humanoids walking among us? I think it's a terrible idea but am happy to be proven wrong.

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@ryanmhickman

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@Bob_Wachter @UCSFHospitals Just lots and lots of folks like me, suffering brain fog and fatigue for weeks to months 🫤 No PCR "case", no "hospitalization", not "dead" yet, just *mild* "can't fully functional at home or work" that we don't track 😞

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@ryanmhickman

4 years

@EricTopol @COVID19Tracking There, I fixed it! 👻

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

3 years

@XRandrew @TrungTPhan @elonmusk Google passes on so many great people due to timing. I wish we emphasized this more so folks could try again a few months later, or to "pre-approve" folks who pass the interview, but land #2 for a single headcount slot. That #2 ranking could be the #1 for a diff team later.

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@ryanmhickman

2 years

He's just SO FRIGGIN GOOD at this 👏

Drew Comments

@sjs856

2 years

If you’re worried about longterm effects from the covid vaccines on children, don’t be. There aren’t any. There’s no pathway for that to be a thing. 8 weeks is the window for any adverse reactions. SARS2 DOES have longterm risks, however.

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@ryanmhickman

3 years

A series of cool posts on using @MediaPipe for controlling robotics! This one captures gestures from a phone and sends them to a prosthesis 🤯

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@ryanmhickman

1 year

🫣 Missed it by *this* much! My favorite shot of the weekend came inches from wrecking my @insta360 X3 in the middle of the @RoboGames arena.

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

4 years

@andrewchen Robotics needs mechanical innovation more than it needs ML breakthroughs

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

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The power of open source hardware! I met @chichengcc and his new UMI grippers at Stanford last week. Turns out they've already been adopted on a humanoid by @benjamin_bolte and @_mattfreed 🙌

Matt Freed

@_mattfreed

5 months

OFF THE GANTRY HERE WE GO NO CHAINS BREAK FREE

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

5 months

@Carnage4Life 💯 and while I'm proud of making Google money for my work on Ads and robotics patent licenses, the great majority of my time there was on money losing endeavors. Yet I lived comfortably in one of the most expensive places on Earth 🤷

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

3 years

@jacobhelberg Did you know it's OK to cheer for Miami's success without dunking on SF? 🤔

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

3 years

@alexhanna That's awesome. I picked up my daughter's friend for a playdate last week, and before they got into the car I was asked "hey wait, does your house support LGBTQ?" by the 9yr old. Their courage to ask an adult that and make the playdate contingent on my answer made me smile🤗

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

3 years

Love the inclusion of wheels on this quadruped! Why mimic nature when we can ++ it :)

Marco Mascorro @ ICML 2024

@Mascobot

3 years

Tencent (Tencent Robotic X) just revealed its "Spot" version of dog #Robot called "Max":

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

2 years

@exceedhergrasp1 @AngelaMSWinCA Thank you, Jamie. The more folks I tell about my brain fog, the more common I'm hearing it is. People aren't as openly talking about it though unless prompted. Had I known how many "mild" cases also included weeks of this, I would have remained more diligent about avoiding it.

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

1 month

@chris_j_paxton It's right in the name: large LANGUAGE model Why do we expect them to do all of these other functions? I think the folks using LLMs plus other architectures for robotics are really cracking open the next phase of multi-function systems

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

2 years

Synthetic Data FTW!! Finally installed the Nest Doorbell, which uses on-device machine learning models, trained with the aid of synthetic data. This was my first alert, where it spotted a person and package under poor lighting, which synth data specifically helped with 👍

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

6 months

@1x_tech TODO: learn to water plants

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Ryan Hickman

@ryanmhickman

2 years

This tech will mature to one-click meals long before there's a humanoid robot cooking for you at home

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