Keyvan Majd

Blackouts won’t silence a nation. The world is watching. Stand with the Iranian people.

🧵 Announcing @open_phil's Technical AI Safety RFP! We're seeking proposals across 21 research areas to help make AI systems more trustworthy, rule-following, and aligned, even as they become more capable.

@arctotherium42 @xiaolonw Could you provide reference for this data?

@xiaolonw The concept of generalization being booed and hissed at a premier ML conference is hilarious. China has a huge problem with scientific fraud and dishonesty.

Very sad to see this. Just reminds me some random dude in the bay drove by and shouted to me “go back to your own country”. Racism real. Very sad to see the language in NeurIPS announcement and the actions of different organizations after are more like trying to tune this whole thing down. Very sad to see there are people think this is overreacting.

@Shivooliii توی مارکت الان اچیومنت خوبی بوده. تبریک 👏

واقعا ۵ ماه عجیبی بود. نزدیک به ۱۰۰ تا اپلیکیشن پر کردم واسه اینترشیپ، ۱۰-۱۲ تا اینترویو گرفتم و در نهایت یک آفر! و کلی ریجکشن بابت ایرانی بودنم که خیلی اذیت کننده بود. اثر آخوند اینجا هم ولمون نمیکنه

For any CS PhD applicants this year: 'Grad app support programs' give informal feedback (on statements, etc) from current PhD students before formally applying. Valuable stuff. Made a 2024 tracker. Feel free to share! +Reach out if one's missing. 👇 andrewkuz.net/public/dashboa…

📢Check out Keyvan's @k1mjd abstract on Safety-aware Expansion for Neural Network Repair presented at the @ieeeiros workshop on formal methods techniques in robotics systems: tinyurl.com/iros-w-23 
From Prof. Heni Ben Amor's lab @asurobot #IROS2023

Very happy and enjoyable to attending #IROS2023 with my lab (interactive Robotics Lab @asurobot ) and talking to many colleagues! Here are my paper talks’ schedule if you’re interested! Let’s discuss and connect! MoAT19 and MoBT6 on Differentiable Filters research.

The average American gets 3000 to 4000 steps a day. This pales in comparison to our hunter gatherer ancestors who got 16,000 to 17,000 steps. This image shows 2 brain scans that represent a students neural activity during a test following sitting and walking for 20 minutes. The color blue represents lower neural activity, while the color red shows higher brain activity in a given region. This shows that exercise has a massive impact not only on your physical health but your mental health. Here are 5 reasons why: 1) It increases serotonin, norepinephrine & dopamine, which manage your thoughts & emotions. 2) It releases endorphins into your body that block out pain and make you feel good. 3) It promotes neuroplasticity, which enhances your brains ability to learn skills and change. 4) It increases oxygen supply to your brain that can help with memory, flexible thinking and self control. 5) It helps you manage stress & increase energy, which will help you become better at every aspect of life. If exercise came in pill form, it would be plastered across the front page, hailed as the blockbuster drug of the century. Do you need to hit a gym to get the benefits? It helps but no. You can find ways to get more movement throughout your day. It could be taking the stairs instead of using the elevator. Or parking a bit farther from your spot. You could even do walking meetings. You can do micro workouts like doing 10 pushups each time you use a door or squats before you sit. There are many ways to get more exercise throughout your day that the only thing you have to get over is yourself. Do not sleep on what a few more steps or a bout of intense exercise will do to your brain and body. It is the #1 metahabit in the world for a reason. Use it to your advantage. Ps. Credit to @SahilBloom for being the first one to bring this brain scan to my attention.

As an academic writing coach, here are the 9 mistakes I see PhD and grad students make when writing scientific papers. A thread. 🧵

I have 2 new #AutoML PhD openings in our new Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) „Small Data“, a major collaboration between the Freiburg university clinic and AI folks, with ~30 PhD students. 1st application deadline: June 18 smalldata-initiative.de 1/4

And now a little robot dance.

@darbareElii سلطان لپ همسر بنده خیلی هم زیباست ☹️

خوش به حالتون که قیافتون جوونه و اندازه‌ی سنتون نمیزنین. من بدبخت فقط چون خیلی لپ دارم عین بچه‌هام همیشه:( از لپ‌هام بدم میاد😭. حاضر بودم همون ۳۰ ساله به نظر بیام اما بی لپ🫠

1/ Today, Zipline unveiled our next generation delivery drone system, designed to provide the best home delivery service the planet has ever seen. It's so out-there that you probably won't believe your eyes... 🧵

Caterpillars extract nutrients which are then converted into butterflies. People have extracted billions of nuggets of understanding and GPT-4 is humanity's butterfly.

@ValaAfshar It’s Voldemort! Lol

A passenger spotted this object during her flight

In our recent paper, we show that a minor variation of DQN actually solves many continuous control problems from state or pixels on par with state-of-the-art actor critic methods such as (D4PG, DMPO, SAC, DrQv2, DreamerV2, ...). arxiv.org/abs/2210.12566

It’s time for Atlas to pick up a new set of skills and get hands on.

“I never make predictions. I never have and I never will.” Tony Blair(?). Me neither, except: Transformers, ROS2, and Indoor Farming. therobotreport.com/2023-robotics-…

Our recent work on imposing safety constraints to a learned policy! We brought repair into robot learning. We’ll present this work in #CoRL2022 and the 5th robot learning workshop at #NeurIPS2022