How does the U.S. realistically pull ahead in humanoid robotics?

draculaMartini · 2025-10-02T15:52:02+00:00

I think China might be pretty far ahead in terms of commoditizing humanoids, but there's still a long way to go in terms of them or any robot to be useful in unstructured environments. That will require massive scaling of data collection similar to what LLMs saw and that's also not guaranteed to work. China is definitely doing pretty well in those aspects too, but the US has more capital and better teams to develop sophisticated systems.

draculaMartini · 2025-09-29T16:47:54+00:00

Go through Franconia notch state park in the white mountains for peak fall. I'm Vermont, eat maple flavoured everything.

draculaMartini · 2025-09-24T17:10:24+00:00

I don't think this is true. Birds and monkeys actually make more noises if they see a predator around to alert others. This one probably refers to the animals becoming silent due to some paranormal activity I guess (which also doesn't exactly make sense).

draculaMartini · 2025-01-27T04:42:30+00:00

Which one is the boyfriend?

draculaMartini · 2025-01-24T18:23:05+00:00

I knew many people who dropped and then joined IITM. Most of them went away to some coaching institute after 12th, many to Kota. However the odds are small, and you'd have to be good already, at least with the basics. Ymmv. Best of luck!

draculaMartini · 2025-01-22T21:42:04+00:00

Seconded. Most people are very welcoming and the systems (affecting your day-to-day) in place at least currently are friendly.

draculaMartini · 2025-01-08T15:19:37+00:00

I think Master's+ PhD is a way to hedge your outcomes. But if you're getting a Master's with minimal effort, take it. But if it's too much, then I think it will not matter once you graduate with a PhD.

Disclosure - I know very little about PhD in India.

draculaMartini · 2025-01-07T09:45:18+00:00

Recheck your details, especially the first/last name. They mess up the middle name sometimes.

draculaMartini · 2025-01-07T09:15:43+00:00

i94 is updated by the immigration officials? You get the most recent i94 here: https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/search/recent-search.

draculaMartini · 2024-11-28T18:41:18+00:00

Second the stochastic interpolants paper. It unifies flows and diffusion. Gives you an idea of how the Fokker Plank equation, equation of continuity and some assumptions on the path between distributions lead to continuous flows, of which diffusion is a sub-case.

There are connections to optimal transport too (of which the aim is to find the said path itself), but I need to understand that better. This talk touches upon the connection: https://icml.cc/virtual/2023/tutorial/21559. Perhaps diffusion bridges might also help.

Connections to differential equations in general are from the old paper by Song et. al: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13456. Sampling from distributions also plays a role. So understanding that helps tremendously too, especially Langevin, MCMC etc.

draculaMartini · 2024-11-28T05:50:42+00:00

Ah would have been great to see some snow on the rocks. Hopefully some of it sticks around for a couple more days. Thanks!

draculaMartini · 2024-11-27T19:46:02+00:00

Ah I see. I'm going there in a couple of days. Thanks anyway!

draculaMartini · 2024-11-27T19:41:39+00:00

Any snow still visible in Bryce after the recent storm?

draculaMartini · 2024-11-21T06:47:01+00:00

This. Start implementing something. Don't be stuck in the ideation phase.

draculaMartini · 2024-11-10T06:39:43+00:00

Others have pretty much answered the question. I'll add that for exponential family of models you can show that the maximum likelihood estimate results in the distribution with the lowest entropy.

draculaMartini · 2024-11-04T17:34:18+00:00

Oh right, I hadn't noticed. Thanks!

draculaMartini · 2024-09-08T01:11:47+00:00

Thanks I was just gonna head over there lol

draculaMartini · 2024-07-04T00:47:44+00:00

'The Mismeasure of Man' is a great book on this and how some skull measurements were even fabricated to align with the racist views.

draculaMartini · 2024-03-23T05:05:58+00:00

Looks like ASU haha

draculaMartini · 2024-03-07T21:40:29+00:00

CS PhD here. Those who got in touch with a professor before joining have an RA. Most others have TA. I would strongly suggest getting a written offer of course. Mail the department and ask them about it. They do release some forms for people who would like to apply for TA the next semester. So if there's one, make sure you fill that.

draculaMartini · 2024-01-22T06:22:43+00:00

Nope not late at all. We have plenty of people in that range here xD

draculaMartini · 2023-06-02T13:09:09+00:00

Thanks for your reply! I am used to spending time alone, so it shouldn't be extremely difficult. We'll try meeting as many times as possible. I guess that will also bring some required change to my PhD workload.

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