What’s your favourite DeepSeek meme? Mine is here.

posting for myself to see later to reflect on.

I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.

I have an 8am combo class. It’s 4am and I need to get attendance. I’m cooked 🔥🔥

built a very simple mcp server for alpaca.

Here’s my summer recap at Amazon committed 53 changes, 36k+ lines added, 23k+ lines removed from 2 packages created an ai agent calling internal Amazon apis using bedrock and function calling added CoT, multi-turn reasoning, and langgraph integration played 14 hours of poker

short term goals for fall: - independent research for LLM evals on GO - involved more in school clubs - finish ai project that i began in May - stay connected with friends

2003 might be the worst year to be born. 2008 - parents lose the house 2013 - too young for bitcoin 2020 - senior year on Zoom 2021 - college in lockdown 2025 - graduate into a frozen job market actually cursed

there is no hugging face for robotics data. no standardized pipeline for collecting, labeling, versioning, training on real-world robot data at scale. no tooling that handles contact dynamics and material deformation well enough for industrial manipulation. no teleoperation

The race ended before it got even started for this robot :(

Can a VLM navigate a real robot through a lab using just a few photos? Yes, if it can orchestrate the right spatial tools. Introducing pySpatial [ICLR 2026]: a zero-shot framework that gives MLLMs spatial reasoning by coding their way through 3D. #ICLR2026 Zhanpeng Luo

excited to hear all the speakers and attend this event! thanks for the referral Harshita Arora