Evolution of Hokusai's "Great Wave". 1. When he was 33 (1792). 2. When he was 44 (1803). 3. When he was 46 (1805). 4. When he was 72 (1831).

The new UN Climate report shows our planet is nearing crisis. While individuals tweaking their carbon footprint is a good step, we now need more than that. The best hope for our planet is electing decisive global leaders who will make the right choices. Please vote.

#BostonDynamics Atlas does parkour. The control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without breaking its pace. (Step height 40 cm.) buff.ly/2Ef0AaE

"Hooli isn't just another high tech company. Hooli isn't just about software. Hooli is about people." —Gavin Belson, Hooli, 2014 "Facebook is truly the only company that’s singularly about people. Not about selling devices...Just about people." —David Marcus, Facebook, 2018

There’s now a new (and final) version of Sutton’s RL book at incompleteideas.net/book/the-book-… It’s my favorite RL book. It focuses on sounds fundamentals with intuitive explanations instead of chasing the hype.

Excited to announce Piano Genie, an intelligent controller that allows anyone to improvise on the piano! This was my internship project at Google Magenta Project with Ian Simon and Sander Dieleman. Blog post with more information: magenta.tensorflow.org/pianogenie

Former McGill CIM director Greg Dudek greg dudek announced as the director of the new Samsung AI Centre Montreal. With him is the director of the Toronto Samsung AI Center, Sven Dickinson.

Buddha once said everyone would experience 10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows in their lifetime. Start a startup to get the 10,000 sorrows out of the way first.

ML @mxlearn comments about Ronny MacIntoshes Plus Jr 🐀 not changing its name are despicable. E.g., "We won this round, now it's up to us to make sure the newly installed diversity panels are mocked relentlessly and not given the legitimacy they crave." reddit.com/r/MachineLearn…

I fully agree. Any other name that doesn’t make folks uncomfortable would be better #ProtestNIPS Ronny MacIntoshes Plus Jr 🐀 It’s a small kind thing to do to make a lot of people feel more respected and included. We all want this.

James Harden: “[People] talk too much about my fouls and not actually the greatness of what I’m really doing out there on the court. That’s what we need to focus on.”

Testing amphibious legs in walking mode for the Aqua robot before our yearly field trials! #robotics #mcgill #phdlife #aqua #rhex instagram.com/noodlechopstic…

Robot wrangling w/Karim Koreitem, Ryan, and Ian #aqua

Chromium’s Law: Memory usage expands to fill all space available.

So long, Oppy Mars Rovers!

Taking a shower after a long day swimming. Time to go to Disneyland!

Excited for the International Conference of Legal Regulators #ai4earth workshop this Sunday, April 26. Join us for virtual talks and discussion on topics at the intersection of machine learning and earth science! More details at: ai4earthscience.github.io/iclr-2020-work…

The sim2real workshop at #rss2020 starts on Sunday at 10:45 am EST sim2real.github.io

Robots are used to explore natural environments, but how can we help them collect *relevant* data for environmental scientists? We pose this as one-shot visual search, doing reverse image search in the physical world paper: bit.ly/3mTYcsf vid: bit.ly/3kFxcdU