Edouard Leurent
@eleurent.bsky.social
Research scientist at Google Deepmind
generative modeling, rl, birds, poetry, games, robots
📍London 🔗 edouardleurent.com
generative modeling, rl, birds, poetry, games, robots
📍London 🔗 edouardleurent.com
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Edouard Leurent
@eleurent.bsky.social
· May 20
Excited to share what I've been up to: bringing text diffusion to Gemini!
Diffusion models are _fast_, and hold immense promise to challenge autoregressive models as the de facto standard for language modeling.
Diffusion models are _fast_, and hold immense promise to challenge autoregressive models as the de facto standard for language modeling.
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who called it arson and not crime brûlée
October 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
who called it arson and not crime brûlée
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My story “Death and the Gorgon” was voted best novella of 2024 by the readers of Asimov’s SF. You can read it online at the link below.
I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.
I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.
October 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
My story “Death and the Gorgon” was voted best novella of 2024 by the readers of Asimov’s SF. You can read it online at the link below.
I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.
I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.
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To the King’s Theatre, where we saw “Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure.
September 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
To the King’s Theatre, where we saw “Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure.
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trying to read
September 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
trying to read
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On the subject of love / I have only a single observation— / if you love a grapefruit, you cut it open // and eat its flesh.
Ben Mirov
Ben Mirov
September 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
On the subject of love / I have only a single observation— / if you love a grapefruit, you cut it open // and eat its flesh.
Ben Mirov
Ben Mirov
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How to name your method: a comprehensive flow chart
September 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
How to name your method: a comprehensive flow chart
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1/5 A poem by Adrienne Rich, 1961, titled "Artificial Intelligence" dedicated to GPS (of Newell and Simon). Eerily prophetic and a great description of LLMs "when they make you write your poetry, later on". On page 136 of this book: www.amazon.com/dp/039328511...
Collected Poems: 1950–2012
Collected Poems: 1950–2012 [Rich, Adrienne, Rankine, Claudia] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Collected Poems: 1950–2012
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September 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
1/5 A poem by Adrienne Rich, 1961, titled "Artificial Intelligence" dedicated to GPS (of Newell and Simon). Eerily prophetic and a great description of LLMs "when they make you write your poetry, later on". On page 136 of this book: www.amazon.com/dp/039328511...
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Control problems are everywhere, but some applications of Reinforcement Learning are truly out of this world! 🌌
Our team's latest research @ Google DeepMind in #Science shows RL can improve sensitivity by 30-100x.
See how RL can accelerate cosmic discovery!👇 (Image #nanobanana)
lnkd.in/e8r7t3NJ
Our team's latest research @ Google DeepMind in #Science shows RL can improve sensitivity by 30-100x.
See how RL can accelerate cosmic discovery!👇 (Image #nanobanana)
lnkd.in/e8r7t3NJ
September 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Control problems are everywhere, but some applications of Reinforcement Learning are truly out of this world! 🌌
Our team's latest research @ Google DeepMind in #Science shows RL can improve sensitivity by 30-100x.
See how RL can accelerate cosmic discovery!👇 (Image #nanobanana)
lnkd.in/e8r7t3NJ
Our team's latest research @ Google DeepMind in #Science shows RL can improve sensitivity by 30-100x.
See how RL can accelerate cosmic discovery!👇 (Image #nanobanana)
lnkd.in/e8r7t3NJ
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Bluesky’s gonna make me take the “we don’t know if its conscious” side of this debate isn’t it
No it can't suffer, you shitwits. Stop anthropomorphising a probability engine. There is some truly fucking dreadful coverage of AI, and the idiot Guardian is one of the worst offenders.
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
August 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Bluesky’s gonna make me take the “we don’t know if its conscious” side of this debate isn’t it
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The "AI is consuming all the water" thing is probably the first time many of us have had to watch a misconception form in real-time while being able to do little about it
August 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The "AI is consuming all the water" thing is probably the first time many of us have had to watch a misconception form in real-time while being able to do little about it
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Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.
(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
July 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.
(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
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Here's a poem by one of the old Chinese scholar bureaucrats that I think captures a certain Vibe very well
July 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Here's a poem by one of the old Chinese scholar bureaucrats that I think captures a certain Vibe very well
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It is has not ceased to be weird that I can put Rilke’s First Elegy into Suno and get out a coherent 8 minute performance with music (can only do 3 here)
You might not like the interpretation, but it is genuinely amazing that this audio, with apparent emotion, is all 100% AI from the verses alone.
You might not like the interpretation, but it is genuinely amazing that this audio, with apparent emotion, is all 100% AI from the verses alone.
July 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It is has not ceased to be weird that I can put Rilke’s First Elegy into Suno and get out a coherent 8 minute performance with music (can only do 3 here)
You might not like the interpretation, but it is genuinely amazing that this audio, with apparent emotion, is all 100% AI from the verses alone.
You might not like the interpretation, but it is genuinely amazing that this audio, with apparent emotion, is all 100% AI from the verses alone.
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It's #WorldGiraffeDay! 🦒 When we celebrate the tallest animal on the longest day (or night) and raise awareness about the threats faced by this incredible animal. For more beautiful giraffe images, check out our giraffe collection on #Flickr: www.flickr.com/search/?user... #StandTallForGiraffe
June 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It's #WorldGiraffeDay! 🦒 When we celebrate the tallest animal on the longest day (or night) and raise awareness about the threats faced by this incredible animal. For more beautiful giraffe images, check out our giraffe collection on #Flickr: www.flickr.com/search/?user... #StandTallForGiraffe
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
June 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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Figure sorting packages with Helix, their end to end action model. The robot flips packages to scan them and flattens them out. The future is approaching fast
June 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Figure sorting packages with Helix, their end to end action model. The robot flips packages to scan them and flattens them out. The future is approaching fast
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Good news, falcons have never been more free.
Bad news, anarchy is loosed upon the world, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned
Bad news, anarchy is loosed upon the world, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned
May 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Good news, falcons have never been more free.
Bad news, anarchy is loosed upon the world, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned
Bad news, anarchy is loosed upon the world, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned
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Stochastic vs deterministic Lotka-Volterra: smooth theory vs randomness! Individual realizations (Gillespie algorithm) show populations can crash or go extinct despite stable deterministic cycles or equilibrium. Randomness changes everything! 🦌🐺🧪
Made with #python #numpy #scipy #matplotlib
Made with #python #numpy #scipy #matplotlib
May 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Stochastic vs deterministic Lotka-Volterra: smooth theory vs randomness! Individual realizations (Gillespie algorithm) show populations can crash or go extinct despite stable deterministic cycles or equilibrium. Randomness changes everything! 🦌🐺🧪
Made with #python #numpy #scipy #matplotlib
Made with #python #numpy #scipy #matplotlib
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May 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The 5 Worst Jobs in Omelas (You Won’t Believe #1)
May 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The 5 Worst Jobs in Omelas (You Won’t Believe #1)
Writing a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER with Gemini Diffusion and its Instant Edit tab
May 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Writing a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER with Gemini Diffusion and its Instant Edit tab
Excited to share what I've been up to: bringing text diffusion to Gemini!
Diffusion models are _fast_, and hold immense promise to challenge autoregressive models as the de facto standard for language modeling.
Diffusion models are _fast_, and hold immense promise to challenge autoregressive models as the de facto standard for language modeling.
May 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Excited to share what I've been up to: bringing text diffusion to Gemini!
Diffusion models are _fast_, and hold immense promise to challenge autoregressive models as the de facto standard for language modeling.
Diffusion models are _fast_, and hold immense promise to challenge autoregressive models as the de facto standard for language modeling.
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
David Lynch: no
David Lynch: no
May 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
David Lynch: no
David Lynch: no
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