Ben Moran

Multi-agent robot learning: if that's your thing, you might be interested in our workshop at IROS 2023. djhanove.github.io/IROS23_MRS/ We have some great speakers, and if you have work to share, we are looking for submissions by August 20th!

These robots were told one thing: score. They taught themselves to play soccer – creating their own strategies and their own ways to walk, dribble and block. cbsn.ws/43GDktB

Football players can tackle, get up, kick and chase a ball in one seamless motion. How could robots master these motor skills? ⚽ We trained AI agents to demonstrate these agile behaviours using end-to-end reinforcement learning. Find out more: dpmd.ai/41N3CsM

I have an unusual story to tell about how score-based generative models construct the data manifold. Will present this at @NeurIPS 2022 Score-Based Model workshop. A really enjoyable collaboration with @benm and many at @DeepMind paper: openreview.net/forum?id=eSZqa…

@JamesWard73 @AlanFresco4 @VictimOfMaths @BristOliver Is there regional data on the prevalence of the new variant over time? If it was still increasing in some areas you might expect it to counteract the effects of lockdown.

@AlanFresco4 @VictimOfMaths the question is: why? my immediate thought, given @BristOliver's thread early today, was immunity based on previous infections. so I did a scatter plot, using the cumulative incidence from the MRC model by region. but there's not the pattern you'd hope for:

This I do not like. Across all 4 UK nations and all regions of England there look to be the initial signs of a levelling off in the fall in COVID-19 cases. We'd expect this eventually, but not with case rates as high as they remain at the moment. 😬

@emiel_hoogeboom @vdbergrianne @wellingmax Looks intriguing! I have broken links where some of the inline images should be, I think they're PDFs rather than images?

Emerging Convs, a blog on invertible dxd convolutional layers: ehoogeboom.github.io/post/invertibl… Come see us at ICML19 on Wednesday, presentation at 12:05 Hall A, and poster #8. In collaboration with @vdbergrianne and @wellingmax.

You might think it’s just a video, but you’d be mistaken. We just released a series of “explorable videos” wherein @3blue1brown teaches you about quaternions and 3d rotation! Is this a new educational medium? eater.net/quaternions

@maosbot I don't know, "Trust Region Policy Optimization" sounds a bit like pension planning to me...

A bit close to the bone this time, @wyr_bot

We would ask you to guess what this is, but it's just not going to happen. It's the paths of 800 unmanned bikes being pushed until falling over, from Matthew Cook. instagram.com/p/BkZh2ZQH1eB/… ^JH

@dennybritz @dkaushik96 I patched the ArXiv mobile android app to do this, so opening PDF links from Twitter, etc. searches the abstract in the app instead: github.com/jdeslip/arxiv-…

Air string of beauty is a joy forever. twitter.com/davidsd/status…

#NuitBlanche Posters: SysML 2018 Conference goo.gl/fb/5WPJnf #ml

This looks handy: "great little utility from our team for making it easier to work with jupyter notebooks in code repositories github.com/ttung/nbencdec (via @thefreemanlab)"

@ChrisMaslanka It is of course a real problem. Still, I think those you quoted have an agenda beyond public health: ushmm.org/propaganda/arc…

@ChrisMaslanka RT'ing Breitbart links, really? UK TB infection rates have been falling every year since 2011. tbalert.org/wp-content/upl…

"Human empowerment" (Salge/Polani) buff.ly/2uJ4Klx (/cc @nikete @dbalduzzi just as we spoke about!)

@seanmcarroll twitpic.com/6m93wk

@gravity_levity The Book of Strange New Things - theguardian.com/books/2014/oct…