Eugene Vinitsky 🍒
@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social
Anti-cynic. Towards a weirder future. Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, transportation systems, the works. Asst. Prof at NYU
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
https://emerge-lab.github.io
https://www.admonymous.co/eugenevinitsky
On a second listen, it is even better than the first
The new Rosalía album is astonishing. Run to your nearest source of music
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
On a second listen, it is even better than the first
This is fantastic work.
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This is fantastic work.
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Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...
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Bench2Drive has become a popular autonomous driving benchmark with over 40 methods. Papers only report a few baselines due to space constraints, making it hard to keep an overview. To fix this, we made a leaderboard that contains every published result:
github.com/autonomousvi...
github.com/autonomousvi...
GitHub - autonomousvision/Bench2Drive-Leaderboard: Bench2Drive Leaderboard
Bench2Drive Leaderboard. Contribute to autonomousvision/Bench2Drive-Leaderboard development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Bench2Drive has become a popular autonomous driving benchmark with over 40 methods. Papers only report a few baselines due to space constraints, making it hard to keep an overview. To fix this, we made a leaderboard that contains every published result:
github.com/autonomousvi...
github.com/autonomousvi...
The LLM code review bots are fantastic. Sure, the make mistakes that are easily identified but they also catch a lot of sneaky bugs. Really do wish I could use them in academic settings but the cost…
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The LLM code review bots are fantastic. Sure, the make mistakes that are easily identified but they also catch a lot of sneaky bugs. Really do wish I could use them in academic settings but the cost…
The new Rosalía album is astonishing. Run to your nearest source of music
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The new Rosalía album is astonishing. Run to your nearest source of music
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have you turned in the assignment? it goes on brightspace. it's just a flipboard. it's like padlet for video. don't forget to do the kahoot. there's also a blooket. we're running a gimkit. chime in on vevox! submit it on bongo. log onto bongo. dive into bongo. you can bongo it. bongo has it for you.
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
have you turned in the assignment? it goes on brightspace. it's just a flipboard. it's like padlet for video. don't forget to do the kahoot. there's also a blooket. we're running a gimkit. chime in on vevox! submit it on bongo. log onto bongo. dive into bongo. you can bongo it. bongo has it for you.
Social media is a void that constantly whispers "talk about politics"
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Social media is a void that constantly whispers "talk about politics"
It's interesting that RLHF'd LLMs and influencers talk the same way. Perhaps through the evolution of clickbait, we'd already found the local maximum of attention grabbing
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It's interesting that RLHF'd LLMs and influencers talk the same way. Perhaps through the evolution of clickbait, we'd already found the local maximum of attention grabbing
Really think this Shtetl Optimized piece by Harvey Lederman is worth reading: scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
Not sure it's an optimistic future, but it is a future that is still joyful
Not sure it's an optimistic future, but it is a future that is still joyful
ChatGPT and the Meaning of Life: Guest Post by Harvey Lederman
Scott Aaronson’s Brief Foreword: Harvey Lederman is a distinguished analytic philosopher who moved from Princeton to UT Austin a few years ago. Since his arrival, he’s become one of my …
scottaaronson.blog
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Really think this Shtetl Optimized piece by Harvey Lederman is worth reading: scottaaronson.blog?p=9030
Not sure it's an optimistic future, but it is a future that is still joyful
Not sure it's an optimistic future, but it is a future that is still joyful
Part of the reason why I’m so insistent about folks understanding AI capabilities is that they’re here to stay and we need to start thinking about what to do in such a world. Putting the genie back in the bottle is a pleasant fantasy that delays serious reckoning
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Part of the reason why I’m so insistent about folks understanding AI capabilities is that they’re here to stay and we need to start thinking about what to do in such a world. Putting the genie back in the bottle is a pleasant fantasy that delays serious reckoning
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Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Just a week into Zohran's win and all of a sudden I'm seeing all these Halal carts around new york serving delicious lamb over rice
November 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Just a week into Zohran's win and all of a sudden I'm seeing all these Halal carts around new york serving delicious lamb over rice
Lab meeting presentations are beginning to compete for most unhinged
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Lab meeting presentations are beginning to compete for most unhinged
Personally I would not want to be in the camp of arguing that we simply *must* have 40k vehicular deaths a year. Status quo bias is an insane drug
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Personally I would not want to be in the camp of arguing that we simply *must* have 40k vehicular deaths a year. Status quo bias is an insane drug
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I'm on the academic job market!
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I'm on the academic job market!
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
I design and analyze probabilistic machine-learning methods---motivated by real-world scientific constraints, and developed in collaboration with scientists in biology, chemistry, and physics.
A few highlights of my research areas are:
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In case you missed it, ICML is now active on Bluesky. Be sure to follow to not miss any updates!!
(Oh, and there's a little conference happening in Seoul in July, be sure to submit your papers by the end of January)
(Oh, and there's a little conference happening in Seoul in July, be sure to submit your papers by the end of January)
🎉 ICML 2026 Call for Papers (& Position Papers) is here! 🎉
📅 Key Dates
Abstract deadline: Jan 23, 2026 AOE
Paper deadline: Jan 28, 2026 AOE
A few key changes this year:
- Attendance for authors of accepted papers is optional
- Originally submitted version of accepted papers will be made public
...
📅 Key Dates
Abstract deadline: Jan 23, 2026 AOE
Paper deadline: Jan 28, 2026 AOE
A few key changes this year:
- Attendance for authors of accepted papers is optional
- Originally submitted version of accepted papers will be made public
...
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In case you missed it, ICML is now active on Bluesky. Be sure to follow to not miss any updates!!
(Oh, and there's a little conference happening in Seoul in July, be sure to submit your papers by the end of January)
(Oh, and there's a little conference happening in Seoul in July, be sure to submit your papers by the end of January)
Effective collaboration and mentoring hinges on knowing what your partner does well or poorly. LLMs undermine this a bit by making this hard to assess
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Effective collaboration and mentoring hinges on knowing what your partner does well or poorly. LLMs undermine this a bit by making this hard to assess
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I'm hiring a student researcher for next summer at the intersection of MARL x LLM. If you're a phd student with experience in MARL algorithm research, please apply and drop me an email so that I know you've applied! www.google.com/about/career...
Student Researcher, PhD, Winter/Summer 2026 — Google Careers
www.google.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I'm hiring a student researcher for next summer at the intersection of MARL x LLM. If you're a phd student with experience in MARL algorithm research, please apply and drop me an email so that I know you've applied! www.google.com/about/career...
Lots of interesting ways the analogy breaks down but Tesla's "run the LLM playbook on self-driving cars" is not an obviously stupid strategy
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Lots of interesting ways the analogy breaks down but Tesla's "run the LLM playbook on self-driving cars" is not an obviously stupid strategy
I was about to post about this and then I wondered, has Andy already covered this innumeracy? And yep, he has
I did some quick digging on the Waymo cat situation andymasley.substack.com/p/please-ple...
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I was about to post about this and then I wondered, has Andy already covered this innumeracy? And yep, he has
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No better time to start learning about that #AI thing everyone's talking about...
📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social!
If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!
📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social!
If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No better time to start learning about that #AI thing everyone's talking about...
📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social!
If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!
📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social!
If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!
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I’m recruiting students this upcoming cycle at UIUC! I’m excited about Qs on societal impact of AI, especially human-AI collaboration, multi-agent interactions, incentives in data sharing, and AI policy/regulation (all from both a theoretical and applied lens). Apply through CS & select my name!
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’m recruiting students this upcoming cycle at UIUC! I’m excited about Qs on societal impact of AI, especially human-AI collaboration, multi-agent interactions, incentives in data sharing, and AI policy/regulation (all from both a theoretical and applied lens). Apply through CS & select my name!
Welcome to Kimi K2 day please enjoy your Kimi and use responsibly
moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/thin...
moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/thin...
Kimi K2 Thinking
Kimi K2 Thinking, Moonshot's best open-source thinking model.
moonshotai.github.io
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Welcome to Kimi K2 day please enjoy your Kimi and use responsibly
moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/thin...
moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/thin...
Some helpful tips for all 10 of the graduate students on this website. Please someone do them up as an interpretive dance on tiktok so the word gets out
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Some helpful tips for all 10 of the graduate students on this website. Please someone do them up as an interpretive dance on tiktok so the word gets out