We are happy to announce the v2.0 release of the Google Research Football Environment. The most exciting feature of this release is the Game Server, which lets your agent compete online with other researchers' models. Visit research-football.dev and give it a try!

~2 hours debugging an issue I thought was due to something I misunderstood in the deep mathematics involved but I just forgot to call `model.zero_grad()`. This bug really builds character

Can suboptimal trials serve as optimal demos? Suboptimal trials are "optimal" for a policy that *aims* to be suboptimal. By conditioning policy on the reward (or advantage) we want it to get, we can use all trials as demos: arxiv.org/abs/1912.13465 w/ Aviral Kumar & xbpeng

BADGR is a robotic learning system that learns navigational affordances from experience: collision, bumpiness, traversability, etc. Trained from hours of self-supervised off-road and urban driving data. w/ Greg Kahn & Pieter Abbeel arxiv.org/abs/2002.05700 sites.google.com/view/badgr

Unsupervised learning of representations is beginning to work quite well without requiring reconstruction.

Hinton responds to Schmidhuber on r/ML: "Despite my own best judgement, I feel that I cannot leave his charges completely unanswered so I am going to respond once and only once." reddit.com/r/MachineLearn…

In 1720 Marseille allowed a ship from plague-ridden Cyprus into port, under pressure from merchants who wanted the goods and didn’t want to wait for the usual quarantine. More than half the population of Marseille died in the next two years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pla…

Very honored to share that I am the 2022 recipient of the prestigious IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. A big thank you to all my collaborators, mentors, and nominators/letter writers! (all 2022 IEEE Technical Field Award winners listed here: corporate-awards.ieee.org/recipients/cur…)

Love this country.Biggest sport is elections-bigger than any WorldCup or Super Bowl. Blow by blow commentary has us on the edge of our seats

#presstitutes x.com/Hemant_80/stat…

Will miss u Kevin Pietersen🦏

Two years ago today, Chelsea won the Europa League after beating Benfica 2-1 in Amsterdam... #CFC

Jose confirms Andre Schurrle and Mark Schwarzer have been invited to the final game of the season and the Player of the Year event. #CFC

Thank you, my friend Narendra Modi , for birthday wishes. I also cherish our interactions. I look forward to seeing you soon.