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Vahe Taamazyan

@vaheta

Senior Researcher @ http://intrinsic.ai (Google’s robotics spin-out). Here talking about 3D Computer Vision, Robotics, and life. Views are my own.

Packing my bags for Seoul. Off to CoRL tomorrow! Ready for a week of robots, research, and (hopefully) some good Korean BBQ.


Today I picked up my first vacuum cleaning robot that actually feels like a real robot from @maticrobots. One of the founders gave me a tour of their HQ & assembly space - amazing transparency, and beautiful aesthetics everywhere. Already impressed after the first run. Thanks…

vaheta's tweet image. Today I picked up my first vacuum cleaning robot that actually feels like a real robot from @maticrobots. One of the founders gave me a tour of their HQ & assembly space - amazing transparency, and beautiful aesthetics everywhere. Already impressed after the first run. Thanks…

Just finished reading The Biggest Bluff by @mkonnikova. If you are looking for an extraordinary, inspiring, and fun book to read, I can’t recommend it enough. I’ve loved poker for a long time, but was never good at it. This book motivated me to start taking it a bit more…

vaheta's tweet image. Just finished reading The Biggest Bluff by @mkonnikova. If you are looking for an extraordinary, inspiring, and fun book to read, I can’t recommend it enough.

I’ve loved poker for a long time, but was never good at it. This book motivated me to start taking it a bit more…

Wow, this is uniquely dumb take

Lidar and radar reduce safety due to sensor contention. If lidars/radars disagree with cameras, which one wins? This sensor ambiguity causes increased, not decreased, risk. That’s why Waymos can’t drive on highways. We turned off the radars in Teslas to increase safety.…



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Hard to imagine a bigger contrast (in capability, intellect, demeanor) than that between Yarvin and Tao. America’s foremost cringe blogger has opinions on its foremost mathematician.

littmath's tweet image. Hard to imagine a bigger contrast (in capability, intellect, demeanor) than that between Yarvin and Tao. America’s foremost cringe blogger has opinions on its foremost mathematician.

America’s foremost mathematician seems to prefer that his employer hold out for its right to penalize applicants for having the same ancestry as him



Humanoid robots, as presented today, aren’t the future of manufacturing - for same reason why we didn’t replace horses with steam powered metal horses.


Holy shit! I spent about 1k hours on online chess, and that felt like a lot - but now it feels so little.

lol, amateurs. And that's without my 5y of DotA Allstars (v1)

giffmana's tweet image. lol, amateurs.
And that's without my 5y of DotA Allstars (v1)
giffmana's tweet image. lol, amateurs.
And that's without my 5y of DotA Allstars (v1)


Pretty sure my first words were cv2.imread. or maybe cv::imread, now that I think about it.

vaheta's tweet image. Pretty sure my first words were cv2.imread. or maybe cv::imread, now that I think about it.
vaheta's tweet image. Pretty sure my first words were cv2.imread. or maybe cv::imread, now that I think about it.

The future will confusing not only for humans

vaheta's tweet image. The future will confusing not only for humans

Had a great PIRA workshop at CVPR, thanks to Vincent Vanhoucke, Kartik Iyer, @bowenwen_me, Kartik Venkataraman, and @tomhodan

vaheta's tweet image. Had a great PIRA workshop at CVPR, thanks to Vincent Vanhoucke, Kartik Iyer, @bowenwen_me, Kartik Venkataraman, and @tomhodan
vaheta's tweet image. Had a great PIRA workshop at CVPR, thanks to Vincent Vanhoucke, Kartik Iyer, @bowenwen_me, Kartik Venkataraman, and @tomhodan
vaheta's tweet image. Had a great PIRA workshop at CVPR, thanks to Vincent Vanhoucke, Kartik Iyer, @bowenwen_me, Kartik Venkataraman, and @tomhodan
vaheta's tweet image. Had a great PIRA workshop at CVPR, thanks to Vincent Vanhoucke, Kartik Iyer, @bowenwen_me, Kartik Venkataraman, and @tomhodan

I’m surprised so few people in my feed talk about Harvard today. Not a good sign.


This is top level genius. Having good enough communications skills to become a president with a brain like this is even more exceptional

I hadn't realized this but Romania's next president was 1st in the world in the International Maths Olympiad 2 years in a row with maximum score

RuxandraTeslo's tweet image. I hadn't realized this but Romania's next president was 1st in the world in the International Maths Olympiad 2 years in a row with maximum score


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