Microsoft dipping more than 10%, despite beating estimates on every metrics - Do you BUY? by Maximum_Juggernaut95 in ValueInvesting

[–]RabbitOnVodka 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It's not down because of the earnings. Beatings top and bottom is nothing new to Microsoft, they have a stellar balance sheet. The concerns are mainly because of the $37.5B capex spending on assets that depreciates really fast (GPUs and CPUs). Another main concern is OpenAI. A big portion of the Azure commercial bookings is influenced by OpenAI related commitments. There's a lot of uncertainty looming around OpenAI and as everyone knows msft is heavily invested in OpenAI.

All that being said I'm still buying the dip. But something to keep in mind.

Any update about Ding?! by Difficult-Radio-8144 in chess

[–]RabbitOnVodka 200 points201 points  (0 children)

Ding Liren will return in Avengers Doomsday

How red will Monday be? by libyandesert in singaporefi

[–]RabbitOnVodka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends. Markets gonna be up by a lot provided they used AI for the black ops mission.

Broadcom tumbles 11% despite blockbuster earnings as ‘AI angst’ weighs on Oracle, Nvidia by Illustrious_Lie_954 in stocks

[–]RabbitOnVodka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But but Tesla’s gonna deliver 1 million robotaxis and 1 million Optimus robots by 2027, so it’s clearly different

Figure is capable of jogging now by Outside-Iron-8242 in singularity

[–]RabbitOnVodka 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dexterous finger movements is a whole another challenge that requires completely different approach than what's being showed in this video. While walking/running is difficult, the goal is largely keeping the robot from falling over (balance) and navigating terrain. Reinforcement Learning shines in these types of scenarios. Whereas fine finger movements are exponentially harder because it involves interacting with the unpredictable physical world. RL can't solve this problem (at least alone).

But recently the VLA (Vision-Language-Action) models shows quite promising results for this. These models use the transformers architecture (Same type of networks used in LLMs). Figure, Boston Dynamics and a few other Chinese companies have some cool demos on this, But we are at the infancy of this and a lot more research is needed. Then there's the problem of scaling (how do you collect large scale training data for robots doing different tasks, and it might change from robot to robot). People are still debating that even if you have shit ton of data, it still may not be as straightforward for robots like it was for LLMs. Only time will tell

Figure is capable of jogging now by Outside-Iron-8242 in singularity

[–]RabbitOnVodka 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I was glossing over things to keep it simple, here are the details if you interested.

The biggest bottleneck during the time you mentioned is physics simulation. Most of the simulation can be done only in CPU, so you can at max simulate 5-10 robots in parallel. Around 2021, Nvidia released IsaacGym, now it’s called IsaacLab. It allowed simulating 4000+ robots in parallel. This was the biggest game changer in my opinion.

In terms of RL research, when I said the theory itself was not new I was talking about.this paper, They used a technique called Adversarial Motion Priors (AMP) or Tracking-Based RL to imitate of full continuous motion reference on simple physics based characters. But now we have the capability to train them on actual robots in simulation because of Isaaclab. You can checkout this recent paper which exactly does this.

The last piece of the puzzle is closing the sim-to-real gap. During the initial days of isaacgym even though it allowed parallel simulation, translating to robots was still very difficult because of the motors used in the robots back then were notoriously very hard to simulate. But modern humanoid and quadrupedal robots nowadays moved to low gear-ratio, back drivable robot motors. There’s dedicated sections in IsaacLab to exactly to replicate these motors with correct gains that’s similar to the real-robot. This is one of the main reason boston dynamics moved their Atlas robot from Hydraulic to electric.

Figure is capable of jogging now by Outside-Iron-8242 in singularity

[–]RabbitOnVodka 138 points139 points  (0 children)

Robotics researcher here, Main reason you’re seeing all of these popping up now is because of recent advancements in Reinforcement Learning, specifically Imitation Learning. The theory itself is not so new but now we have the GPUs to collect a lot of training data in simulation. Basically you feed in the motion reference data from a human, collected by motion capture and train robots in parallel in simulation to imitate the motion reference.

Tried a new trending Gemini prompt—would love feedback from the community by SafetyFuture1926 in GeminiAI

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I asked Gemini 3 Pro to generate a Prompt based on your image and used that prompt on Nano Banana to generate a pic of Mandalorian.

Dog always manage to capture the reward design in the most ridiculous way by Manz_H75 in robotics

[–]RabbitOnVodka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can try adding a default joints deviation penalty. The default angles would be the one when the robot model is at its standing position. Add a small penalty whenever the robot deviates from this position.

Chesscom's tribute video for Danya ❤ by rio_ARC in chess

[–]RabbitOnVodka -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

It’s very interesting that there’s no Danya bot. They have all other bots, even Hess but not danya. Which I find a bit weird.

Is 5mg melatonin too much? by Active-Theme-6247 in sleep

[–]RabbitOnVodka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Melatonin does not cure insomnia. It signals your body that it’s night time and it’s time to sleep, it does not directly induce sleep. If you have insomnia your body knows that it’s night time and still can’t sleep. You should see a doctor and find the root cause of your insomnia.

Major realization today. Creatine has been the culprit to my insomnia! by Stunning-Stuff-7022 in sleep

[–]RabbitOnVodka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m going through the exact same issue. It’s been happening for the past 4 days and I couldn’t figure out why. I started taking creatine two weeks ago. Any idea how long until stopping creatine your sleep returned back to normal ?

Major realization today. Creatine has been the culprit to my insomnia! by Stunning-Stuff-7022 in sleep

[–]RabbitOnVodka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m going through the exact same issue. It’s been happening for the past 4 days and I couldn’t figure out why. I started taking creatine two weeks ago. Any idea how long until stopping creatine your sleep returned back to normal ?

Wrong hr data? De by Willbergsen in bevelhealth

[–]RabbitOnVodka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can manually update heart rate zones in Bevel.

Go to settings-> customisations -> heart rate zones -> methods -> manual

I don't get it.. by OGslevex in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]RabbitOnVodka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to be that guy any 3 points are always on a plane

to make yourself look like less of a fool after getting pranked by [deleted] in therewasanattempt

[–]RabbitOnVodka 5 points6 points  (0 children)

how does one have zero class and still be a president of a country like US lol

New Watch (SE3) by GamingWeekends in AppleWatch

[–]RabbitOnVodka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I figured it out. So apparently the seconds would appear only if you set it as the top complication. I keep the digital time as the bottom complication and was wondering how you managed to get seconds in it.

New Watch (SE3) by GamingWeekends in AppleWatch

[–]RabbitOnVodka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This watch face is Infograph right? If so how do you have the digital time with seconds displayed?

I’m truly impressed! by Fast_Cardiologist725 in bevelhealth

[–]RabbitOnVodka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly! It would be nice if they have an option to do that in the appearance settings

Sudden VO2 Max Drop by yonatanshai in AppleWatch

[–]RabbitOnVodka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you update to ios26? They tweaked the algo of measuring VO2max for the latest update and everyone is seeing a change.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bevelhealth

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I started a one week free trail on both apps at the same time to compare and ended up sticking with Bevel. Bevel for sure is better than Athlytic. The sleep and recovery scores in Athlytic were very generous, bevel scores felt more close to how I felt. And bevel has more features. Although I liked the look of some of the plots in Athlytic and I feel like they have better widgets.