@shimon8282.bsky.social
Professor of Computer Science at Oxford. Senior Staff Research Scientist at Waymo.
The robotics revolution is here.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The robotics revolution is here.
Waymo is coming to London next year.
October 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Waymo is coming to London next year.
Reposted
Got questions about self-driving cars? 🤖 🚘
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Prof. Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) from @ox.ac.uk and @waymo.bsky.social about machine learning for autonomous vehicles.
Send me your questions for Shimon in the comments below! #Robots #Robotics #AI
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Prof. Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) from @ox.ac.uk and @waymo.bsky.social about machine learning for autonomous vehicles.
Send me your questions for Shimon in the comments below! #Robots #Robotics #AI
September 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Got questions about self-driving cars? 🤖 🚘
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Prof. Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) from @ox.ac.uk and @waymo.bsky.social about machine learning for autonomous vehicles.
Send me your questions for Shimon in the comments below! #Robots #Robotics #AI
Later this season, I'll be chatting to Prof. Shimon Whiteson (@shimon8282.bsky.social) from @ox.ac.uk and @waymo.bsky.social about machine learning for autonomous vehicles.
Send me your questions for Shimon in the comments below! #Robots #Robotics #AI
I'm hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for my team at Waymo Research. Come help us tackle the biggest challenges in autonomous vehicles! careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/machine...
Machine Learning Engineer, AI Foundations - Oxford, England, United Kingdom - London, England, United Kingdom
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building ...
careers.withwaymo.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I'm hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for my team at Waymo Research. Come help us tackle the biggest challenges in autonomous vehicles! careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/machine...
"In the fight against injustice, winning is a moral duty." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/m...
Rutger Bregman Wants to Save Elites From Their Wasted Lives
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May 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"In the fight against injustice, winning is a moral duty." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/m...
Our survey on meta reinforcement learning has now been published by Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning: nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...
now publishers - A Tutorial on Meta-Reinforcement Learning
Publishers of Foundations and Trends, making research accessible
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April 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our survey on meta reinforcement learning has now been published by Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning: nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...
Just another day at the office.
April 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Just another day at the office.
In order to set a good example for my students, I feel morally obliged to do as little work as possible.
Let's stop valorising long hours at work:
- overwork is usually unnecessary, the result of poor planning;
- overwork results in poorer work, particularly in creative endeavours;
- overwork harms the worker's mental health e.g. burnout; &
- overwork harms the worker's family.
- overwork is usually unnecessary, the result of poor planning;
- overwork results in poorer work, particularly in creative endeavours;
- overwork harms the worker's mental health e.g. burnout; &
- overwork harms the worker's family.
January 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In order to set a good example for my students, I feel morally obliged to do as little work as possible.
A new version of the paper Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients, that I first published in 2017 with @jfoerst.bsky.social, Greg Farquhar, and others, is now available on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/1705.08926).
Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients
Cooperative multi-agent systems can be naturally used to model many real world problems, such as network packet routing and the coordination of autonomous vehicles. There is a great need for new reinf...
arxiv.org
December 18, 2024 at 11:50 AM
A new version of the paper Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients, that I first published in 2017 with @jfoerst.bsky.social, Greg Farquhar, and others, is now available on arXiv (arxiv.org/abs/1705.08926).
My team at Waymo is hiring two London-based interns for Summer 2025. Please consider applying!
careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su...
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2025 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Research - Simulation Agents - London, England, United Kingdom
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waym...
careers.withwaymo.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:37 AM
My team at Waymo is hiring two London-based interns for Summer 2025. Please consider applying!
careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su...
careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su...
careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su...
careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/2025-su...
What if instead of viewing AI as a separate entity, we treat the human and computer as one cognitive unit that together outperforms either on its own? My prefrontal cortex doesn't fret about delegating visual processing to my visual cortex. I don't fret about delegating navigation to Google Maps.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 13, 2024 at 7:25 AM
What if instead of viewing AI as a separate entity, we treat the human and computer as one cognitive unit that together outperforms either on its own? My prefrontal cortex doesn't fret about delegating visual processing to my visual cortex. I don't fret about delegating navigation to Google Maps.
Who says Mountain Car is not a real world problem?
December 8, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Who says Mountain Car is not a real world problem?