An Oneironaut! PhD Research Student @UofGlasgow , MSc-Aerospace Engineering. (2022) @SwanseaUni , B.Tech-Aerospace Engineering (2020) @iiest_s
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Alan Mannoosseril retweeted
I incorporated the classical "Socratic method" of epistemological/argumenatitve narrative here. The core idea is to demonstrate complexity, difficulty, and uncertainty rather than to elicit facts about any topic. Our next generations have to be educated on the "what and how" of thinking rather than factual bombardment.
Alan Mannoosseril retweeted
We congratulate Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster on their remarkable mathematical work.
We (the researchers and the agents) did not see any of their work through any means until they released it publicly — in particular, no specific user data was accessed in order to solve this problem.
While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.
However, our proofs differ significantly and even the precise results proved are different in the Euler case (forced vs. unforced).
We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.
The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.
The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.
Alan Mannoosseril retweeted
We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.
The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.
The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.
Alan Mannoosseril retweeted
I would like to clarify a few things:
1) The screenshot is my reaching out to Levent to coordinate our releases. I hope it’s clear from the message that we came in with the best possible intentions.
2) I never ever asked for Levent to be removed from authorship of his own work (as indicated by my text). I was surprised to learn during the call with Tristan that they had only solved Euler and not Navier-Stokes; after learning this we brainstormed possible paths forward. One option we discussed was that Tristan could be the lead author on a rewrite of OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes proof. It is in that context that I said “it would be simpler if Levent was not an Anthropic employee” because I felt it would be inappropriate for an Anthropic employee to author OpenAI’s work. Importantly it was admitted that internal Anthropic models had been used in their proof of Euler blowup; I therefore felt I could not consider Levent to be an independent academic. Another option I wanted to propose (but got cut short) is to offer access to our internal model so that they could try to finish their proof and bridge the gap between Euler and NS. Again I did not know how to navigate giving access to internal OpenAI IP to an Anthropic employee.
3) To reiterate it plainly: as my text clearly indicates, and as I said during our call, OpenAI's intention was to do everything possible to celebrate their mathematical achievements and the heroic efforts that they made on Euler. In the call I was immediately met with a litany of slander, including direct threats that if we were to announce Navier-Stokes he would immediately go to the press with a barrage of unfounded accusations. I refuted all these accusations but he replied “there is nothing you can do, I simply do not trust you”. I was confused why one would turn an incredible source for celebration (of their achievements!) into such bickering, which is when I said that I did not understand why one would risk their career [over unfounded accusations]. Genuinely, at that moment, I was trying to care for him and do a last ditch attempt to get a chance to give them all the credits that they deserve. I deeply apologize for this extremely poor choice of words, it is the opposite of what I was trying to convey. (I should say that I retracted them on the spot by the way.)
4) Overall, on a personal level, it was incredibly difficult to have these conversations. Levent refused to attend any of the meetings despite my repeated asking. As Sholto Douglas said, there will need to be coordination between Anthropic and OpenAI in the future; I felt I was doing a proxy negotiation with Anthropic while the Anthropic employee refused to directly participate.
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Alan Mannoosseril retweeted
The low pressure named #StormÉowyn currently has a central air pressure of 1001hPa, but this is expected to drop by 62hPa in the next 30 hours 👀
This is known as explosive cyclogenesis or a weather bomb and will bring damaging winds to some areas on Friday ⚠️
Deep admiration for @DrAllyLouks and her transformative thesis, shedding light on how something as overlooked as smell holds the power to challenge norms and spark change. Truth feels stranger than fiction, but only those who've never felt its weight dismiss it as fantasy. 🙇
Y'all excited for @Spotify wrapped? I'm trembling at the thought of @monzo wrapped and all other wrapped that follows.
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Capturing my luck with Countdown to #ScienceSlam2024 @UofGSciEngGrads 🤞
Good luck to all my fellow participants too @ingliscs Marina from @BellGroup_ @AliciaJGardiner & Alban, Maria Psarra, Senthilkumar !!
Alan Mannoosseril retweeted
Meet Science Slam presenter #5 @ialandm ! His research is on data-driven uncertainty quantification methods, and using probabilistic and computational mechanics and random matrices to conquer the unknown! Join us to find out what this means!
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ALT PhD student Alan Das Mannoosseril standing in front of a University building
Bro forgot he was talking to an overthinking aerospace engineer...
#aerospaceengineer #phdlife #scientifictemper #halfknowledge #dunningkrueger
ALT If I offered you $100,000 to jump out of a plane without a parachute, would you do it?.. I bet you said NO! But, what if I told you, the plane was on the ground?.. Moral of the story: know all the facts before you open your mouth. Reply: That's not all the facts. Which plane is it? Is it a Boeing 737, Airbus A320 or Embraer Phenom 300E? If it's the first two, the injury would be pretty serious, do you even know how high the air-stairs are? Yeah, it's on the ground but is it stationary or taxiing? Hmm.. Even though the horizontal velocity has no significant contribution to impact force, it'll cause me to tumble, slide or skid post impact. What’s the landing surface? Concrete, grass, or padded? Is the plane on a ramp or uneven surface? Coz the ground slope might increase the fall height. What’s the weather like? Rain, ice, or wind could make the landing area slippery or change the dynamics of the fall. Moral of the story: to know all the facts you need to open your mouth
Congrats Bruhat, well done on winning the #SpellingBee Championship!! 🎉 Shocked to realize '#nachschläge, #ashwagandha, #giclée, #puszta, #voussoir, #caixinha' are officially in the English lexicon now! 😲
Alan Mannoosseril retweeted
Autonomous driving through extremely-tight-dynamic environments with complex, stochastic, and adversarial traffic-dynamics, or simply through an absolute chaos, on sub-urban unstructured roads in India.
This kind of traffic and environment has never been attempted in the history of #autonomousdriving.
There were no traffic-rules to abide by on this road, other than to perform a left-sided avoidance, if the other obstacles follow the same, else the vehicle will have to change its plan in a stochastic manner, in several of the adversarial multi-agent negotiation settings encountered throughout the autonomous navigation.
This demos tested our motion planning and decision making framework to its limits, showcasing its robustness in negotiating such traffic-dynamics with ease.
This demo was done on mostly a very narrow road, suited mostly for one-way navigation, but as is customary in India, bidirectional traffic is active on such narrow roads.
It can be seen throughout navigation that the incoming vehicles didn't allow any gaps for our #AutonomousVehicles, forcing it to negotiate passively-aggressively its own path through the chaos. Furthermore, obstacles overtaking us didn't follow any rules either, and zig-zagged and moved in crisscross fashion, challenging our motion and behaviour planning software, which negotiated all such scenarios with ease.
There were only two points where our vehicle came to halt, when two girls on a two-wheeler didn't stop and just kept on navigating, despite our vehicle being closer to the narrow passage and it having the right of way, and despite a bike being parked over there by someone, making it a very challenging scenario both for the humans and for the decision making autonomous agent(s).
This demo was done in the Awadhpuri area, on the Durga Mata road. This framework was last shown in relatively much sparser traffic in our Kankali Kali Mata demo last month. It is being scaled further with deep unsupervised and #reinforcementlearning , and in the coming weeks, it will play a critical role in our endeavour to solving the Level-4 autonomy problem by the end of the year.
This kind of traffic negotiation has never been attempted by any autonomous driving company ever. While a 90-degree turn is usually discussed as a corner case in the West, our autonomous vehicle negotiated a blind 90-degree corner, with traffic, with ease.
#deeplearning #MachineLearning @swaayatt
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Alan Mannoosseril retweeted
Did I just hear “അത്രേം പോകണ്ട"? 😂
What a day to showcase the knowledge, dedication, and perseverance of our brilliant brains! ❤️🇮🇳💪
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