building AI that empowers the human reinforcement learning algorithm @percepta. prev: kempner/harvard, deepmind, umich
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Task diversity is supposedly key to generalization in RL. But what does it do to continual RL, where agents face one new task distribution after another?
We find that past a point, more diversity actually inhibits continual reinforcement learning 🧵
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Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
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We are hiring for many positions in EECS at Berkeley - join us!!
Importantly, this includes a search in AI, Inequality, and Society - more details here - aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…!
We 'll be hiring very actively at Berkeley!
Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor – Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (Deadline: Dec. 7, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time). Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Assistant Professor – AI for Biology – Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Center for Computational Biology (Deadline: Nov. 9, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time) Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Assistant Professor – Intersection of Statistics and CS – Departments of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Statistics (Deadline: Nov. 10, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time). Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor – Computational Biomedicine - Center for Computational Biology (Deadline: Nov. 18 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time). Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Assistant / Associate Professor – Electronic, Functional, and Quantum Materials – Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Materials Science & Engineering (Deadline: Dec. 7, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time). Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Coming Soon! Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor - AI and the Physical Sciences -Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP) and home department(s) to be determined. (Deadline: Dec. 7, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time) Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Coming Soon! Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor-in-Residence - Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology and home department(s) to be (Deadline: TBD at 11:59 pm Pacific Time) Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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We 'll be hiring very actively at Berkeley!
Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor – Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (Deadline: Dec. 7, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time). Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Assistant Professor – AI for Biology – Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Center for Computational Biology (Deadline: Nov. 9, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time) Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Assistant Professor – Intersection of Statistics and CS – Departments of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Statistics (Deadline: Nov. 10, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time). Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor – Computational Biomedicine - Center for Computational Biology (Deadline: Nov. 18 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time). Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Assistant / Associate Professor – Electronic, Functional, and Quantum Materials – Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Materials Science & Engineering (Deadline: Dec. 7, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time). Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Coming Soon! Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor - AI and the Physical Sciences -Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP) and home department(s) to be determined. (Deadline: Dec. 7, 2026 at 11:59 pm Pacific Time) Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
Coming Soon! Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor-in-Residence - Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology and home department(s) to be (Deadline: TBD at 11:59 pm Pacific Time) Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…
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When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.
When we see that traffic and injury-causing crashes spike on the streets around a warehouse — that's exploitation. And it makes our streets less safe.
We stand with working people, not corporations that profit by denying them their rights. We stand with @Teamsters and for safe streets in New York City.
We will pass the Delivery Protection Act.
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon.
Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
It leaves our workers unprotected and our streets less safe. It's time for a change.
I'm proud to support the Delivery Protection Act to crack down on exploitative subcontracting and build an economy that works for everyone.
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Billionaires can’t pay more in taxes but can spend $400,000,000.00 on midterm elections.
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We're hiring in our Research Operations team at @BasisOrg to work with the venerable @schroeder_ke, myself and the rest of the team. basis.ai/roles/research-oper…
This is a do-all-the-things role that touches upon all of Basis from science to engineering to infrastructure, Moreover, it's an exciting point in the trajectory of Basis, and likely the best time to join.
Please get in touch (dm me or @schroeder_ke) If you're interested in any of:
- scaling a new kind of research and engineering organisation
- understanding and building intelligence, and helping our research teams solve hard scientific problems from formal verification to robotics to urban ecology
- designing lab spaces working with architects, hardware engineers, and artists
- scaling research software engineering to the new agent era
- applied meta-science: solving research bottlenecks from in a principled way
- new funding mechanism for public benefit research
Even If not, please share this with anyone you think might be good for the role!
We're also interested in exceptional people who can't yet join full-time
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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We’re hiring Senior and Principal researchers in ML & Stats at Microsoft Research New England @MSRNE! Amazing colleagues, remarkable breadth and depth of expertise, and unbeatable views. Come join us! Questions about the roles or the group? DM me!
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-> sept: we launch persimmon
the world: you should RL against it
-> 1 month later: we launch ampersand RL'ed against persimmons
the world: you should test it with real users
-> 2 days later: we announce boba where users can chat with ampersand
any predictions for what's next? 😇
Introducing Boba - the social intelligence that understands your goals and your community. Text Boba today or message it online at boba.app
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My team @GoogleDeepMind is hiring! We are seeking a Research Scientist to rigorously study the internals and generalisation of frontier AI systems, w/ a particular view to AI security.
This is an in-person role at our Platform 37 office in London 🎡
Link to apply in thread 👇
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@EkaRobotics has raised a $150M Series A.
Generality v/s Performance is the fundamental tension at the frontier of robotics. Generality without performance is just a prototype. Performance without generality is just a single-purpose tool.
Customers shouldn’t have to choose. Eka breaks the tradeoff. Powered by our Vision-Force-Action (VFA) model, we deliver the performance and versatility customers need to put robots to work every day.
Eka is built on three convictions:
⚡️Force is the language of manipulation.
🚀 Reinforcement learning is how dexterous manipulation scales.
🎂 System 1—fast, reliable physical execution—is the bottleneck to solve.
With this funding, we will scale our model and accelerate customer deployments.
Grateful to be building alongside a dream team and investors who share our ambition.
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This is a joint search with the @KempnerInst . Great opportunities and computational resources
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Yale will pay you to live at Yale for 4 months.
No tuition. No fees.
What you get:
• A living stipend
• A furnished apartment
• Medical insurance
• Round-trip flights from your home country
• Access to 2,000+ Yale courses
• 1:1 and group leadership coaching
• A network of 450+ fellows in 100+ countries
No degree needed. No age limit.
Who it's for: non-US citizens who are 5 to 25 years into their careers and already making real impact.
Applications close December 2.
Apply here: jackson.yale.edu/internation…
Bookmark it and send it to someone who deserves this.
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Preparing for AI Research Scientist interviews? 🔥
We just open-sourced PaperLeet 🐈⬛ LeetCode for AI researchers: implement the core of ~100 key papers (llm, rl, diffusion, flow matching, JEPA, world models), graded by tests that check the math.
paperleet.com
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This week, we opened 385 new affordable homes in Brooklyn.
We’ll soon grow the Innovative Urban Village to 2,000 affordable homes, child care, jobs, a grocery store and a performing arts center.
That’s what it looks like to build a city without pricing out the working class.
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The Republican-controlled board of elections shut down the 1 early voting site at North Carolina A&T University—a historically Black college—so students marched an hour to vote.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE STUDENTS FOR FIGHTING BACK. WE MUST ALL DO THE SAME.
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Thinking of retooling into AI? Applications to the UBC Master of Data Science (CompLing focus) are open for next year. It's a 10-month professional program, where we teach you to build LMs and understand them inside-out! Pretraining, interpretability, building agents... and all meant to bring people from different backgrounds into the field
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1/ We discovered something totally unexpected about the neural structure of consciousness that overturns decades of thinking on its biological basis and brings us significantly closer to the recipe for generating conscious awareness.
New preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… (led by @HesseJanis, with @FrankLanfranchi, @_conor_mcgrory, @Yuelin_Shi, and @EngelTatiana)
