Tristan Slominski
@tristanls.bsky.social
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
It's Halloween. So here's a story about the horror of replacing your developers with AI:
accu.org/journals/ove...
accu.org/journals/ove...
Judgment Day
What if AI takes your job? Teedy Deigh finds out.
accu.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:27 AM
It's Halloween. So here's a story about the horror of replacing your developers with AI:
accu.org/journals/ove...
accu.org/journals/ove...
There's this idea that thanks to LLMs reviewing code will become more important than writing code.
It misses the idea that writing code includes reviewing code as a side effect.
For those who only speak "LLM": writing code is like generating your own data on which you train to review code.
It misses the idea that writing code includes reviewing code as a side effect.
For those who only speak "LLM": writing code is like generating your own data on which you train to review code.
October 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
There's this idea that thanks to LLMs reviewing code will become more important than writing code.
It misses the idea that writing code includes reviewing code as a side effect.
For those who only speak "LLM": writing code is like generating your own data on which you train to review code.
It misses the idea that writing code includes reviewing code as a side effect.
For those who only speak "LLM": writing code is like generating your own data on which you train to review code.
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
🚀 New Video Series: Community Videos!
First up: Collin & @tristanls.bsky.social dive into adding CUDA GPU support to Monty’s HypothesesUpdaters, with a proposed high-level API + open issues to tackle.
Watch here 👉 youtu.be/eFmIK16B5kQ
First up: Collin & @tristanls.bsky.social dive into adding CUDA GPU support to Monty’s HypothesesUpdaters, with a proposed high-level API + open issues to tackle.
Watch here 👉 youtu.be/eFmIK16B5kQ
2025/08/28 GPU Support Meeting
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
youtu.be
September 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🚀 New Video Series: Community Videos!
First up: Collin & @tristanls.bsky.social dive into adding CUDA GPU support to Monty’s HypothesesUpdaters, with a proposed high-level API + open issues to tackle.
Watch here 👉 youtu.be/eFmIK16B5kQ
First up: Collin & @tristanls.bsky.social dive into adding CUDA GPU support to Monty’s HypothesesUpdaters, with a proposed high-level API + open issues to tackle.
Watch here 👉 youtu.be/eFmIK16B5kQ
September 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
🚀 Help us build an open source platform.
Remote, impactful, collaborative.
Find out more:
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
#SoftwareEngineering #RemoteJobs
Remote, impactful, collaborative.
Find out more:
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
#SoftwareEngineering #RemoteJobs
Staff Software Engineer
As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...
thousandbrains.org
September 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🚀 Help us build an open source platform.
Remote, impactful, collaborative.
Find out more:
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
#SoftwareEngineering #RemoteJobs
Remote, impactful, collaborative.
Find out more:
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
#SoftwareEngineering #RemoteJobs
Incidentally, this short 4 minute video triggered in me a fundamental insight into why quaternions work: an embedding in a higher-dimensional space with one constraint avoids singularities or discontinuities when representing the embedded space.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgJ...
Modern Robotics, Chapter 2.3.2: Configuration Space Representation
YouTube video by Northwestern Robotics
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September 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Incidentally, this short 4 minute video triggered in me a fundamental insight into why quaternions work: an embedding in a higher-dimensional space with one constraint avoids singularities or discontinuities when representing the embedded space.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgJ...
I'm looking for a full-time remote Staff Software Engineer to join our team in building an open-source platform.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Staff Software Engineer
As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...
thousandbrains.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I'm looking for a full-time remote Staff Software Engineer to join our team in building an open-source platform.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
You've heard of conventional commits, you've heard of conventional comments... behold: conventional responses.
conventionalresponses.org
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Conventional Responses
Responses that are easy to emote and convey how you actually feel
conventionalresponses.org
August 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
You've heard of conventional commits, you've heard of conventional comments... behold: conventional responses.
conventionalresponses.org
conventionalresponses.org
Are you a software developer who wants to work on AI but doesn't have the classic Machine Learning / LLM / deep neural network experience? Then, I'm looking for you...
I'm looking for traditional software engineers to build our sensorimotor intelligence platform.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
I'm looking for traditional software engineers to build our sensorimotor intelligence platform.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Open-Source Software Engineer
As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...
thousandbrains.org
August 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Are you a software developer who wants to work on AI but doesn't have the classic Machine Learning / LLM / deep neural network experience? Then, I'm looking for you...
I'm looking for traditional software engineers to build our sensorimotor intelligence platform.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
I'm looking for traditional software engineers to build our sensorimotor intelligence platform.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
🚨 Question: How did you build something radically different than deep learning?
youtube.com/shorts/4cfxP...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI
youtube.com/shorts/4cfxP...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI
youtube.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🚨 Question: How did you build something radically different than deep learning?
youtube.com/shorts/4cfxP...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI
youtube.com/shorts/4cfxP...
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Read the plain language explainer: thousandbrains.org/thousand-bra...
#AI #Neuroscience #ThousandBrains #SensorimotorAI
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
🚀 From LEGO bricks to neocortical-robotic AI.
We built a robot with tower-mounted RGB+depth sensors & a rotating platform, powered by Monty + Raspberry Pis, to scan real-world objects in 3D.
🎥 Watch the build, debug, train & demo: youtu.be/_u7STtACQ50
#Robotics #AI
We built a robot with tower-mounted RGB+depth sensors & a rotating platform, powered by Monty + Raspberry Pis, to scan real-world objects in 3D.
🎥 Watch the build, debug, train & demo: youtu.be/_u7STtACQ50
#Robotics #AI
2025-05 LEGO Robot Presentation and Demo
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
youtu.be
August 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
🚀 From LEGO bricks to neocortical-robotic AI.
We built a robot with tower-mounted RGB+depth sensors & a rotating platform, powered by Monty + Raspberry Pis, to scan real-world objects in 3D.
🎥 Watch the build, debug, train & demo: youtu.be/_u7STtACQ50
#Robotics #AI
We built a robot with tower-mounted RGB+depth sensors & a rotating platform, powered by Monty + Raspberry Pis, to scan real-world objects in 3D.
🎥 Watch the build, debug, train & demo: youtu.be/_u7STtACQ50
#Robotics #AI
I'm hiring again at @thousandbrains.org
I'm looking for an experienced software engineer to join us in transforming our groundbreaking research into a platform that will enable people worldwide to run Monty and apply sensorimotor intelligence to their problems.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
I'm looking for an experienced software engineer to join us in transforming our groundbreaking research into a platform that will enable people worldwide to run Monty and apply sensorimotor intelligence to their problems.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Open-Source Software Engineer
As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...
thousandbrains.org
August 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'm hiring again at @thousandbrains.org
I'm looking for an experienced software engineer to join us in transforming our groundbreaking research into a platform that will enable people worldwide to run Monty and apply sensorimotor intelligence to their problems.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
I'm looking for an experienced software engineer to join us in transforming our groundbreaking research into a platform that will enable people worldwide to run Monty and apply sensorimotor intelligence to their problems.
thousandbrains.org/company/care...
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
A must-watch talk from @scott.hanselman.com. Scott and I are of the same vintage, and I am embarrassed (mortified!) by how revolting some of our generational peers have become. Technology still has a unique power to improve our lives, but wow, do we ever have work to do. youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
youtu.be
July 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A must-watch talk from @scott.hanselman.com. Scott and I are of the same vintage, and I am embarrassed (mortified!) by how revolting some of our generational peers have become. Technology still has a unique power to improve our lives, but wow, do we ever have work to do. youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...
It occurred to me that it used to be difficult to convince "the business" that 100% SLO was not achievable. No defects was so difficult to counter. I'm amazed how much LLMs flipped the whole thing on its head and nobody cares anymore 😄.
July 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It occurred to me that it used to be difficult to convince "the business" that 100% SLO was not achievable. No defects was so difficult to counter. I'm amazed how much LLMs flipped the whole thing on its head and nobody cares anymore 😄.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
July 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
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🚨Another New Paper Drop! 🚨 “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain”
👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
🚨Another New Paper Drop! 🚨 “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain”
👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
July 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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🚨Another New Paper Drop! 🚨 “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain”
👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
🚨Another New Paper Drop! 🚨 “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain”
👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
🔥 Want to understand how the neocortex builds intelligence?
Artem Kirsanov made a great video on the Thousand Brains Theory, the foundation of everything we’re building at here Thousand Brains Project!
🎥 youtu.be/Dykkubb-Qus
#Neuroscience #AI #ThousandBrains #Neocortex
Artem Kirsanov made a great video on the Thousand Brains Theory, the foundation of everything we’re building at here Thousand Brains Project!
🎥 youtu.be/Dykkubb-Qus
#Neuroscience #AI #ThousandBrains #Neocortex
A Fundamental Unit Of Intelligence
YouTube video by Artem Kirsanov
youtu.be
July 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🔥 Want to understand how the neocortex builds intelligence?
Artem Kirsanov made a great video on the Thousand Brains Theory, the foundation of everything we’re building at here Thousand Brains Project!
🎥 youtu.be/Dykkubb-Qus
#Neuroscience #AI #ThousandBrains #Neocortex
Artem Kirsanov made a great video on the Thousand Brains Theory, the foundation of everything we’re building at here Thousand Brains Project!
🎥 youtu.be/Dykkubb-Qus
#Neuroscience #AI #ThousandBrains #Neocortex
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
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🚨 New Paper Drop 🚨
We’ve released “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference” — the first working implementation of a thousand-brains system, code-named Monty.
👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
🚨 New Paper Drop 🚨
We’ve released “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference” — the first working implementation of a thousand-brains system, code-named Monty.
👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
July 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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🚨 New Paper Drop 🚨
We’ve released “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference” — the first working implementation of a thousand-brains system, code-named Monty.
👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
🚨 New Paper Drop 🚨
We’ve released “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference” — the first working implementation of a thousand-brains system, code-named Monty.
👇 Dive into the full thread 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
Many people think of the brain as a hierarchical system, and in many ways it is. But there is also a lot of non-hierarchical processing going on. Check out this pre-print where we review and propose functional roles for the different long-range connections in the neocortex 🧠
New paper dropped! “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain” The Thousand Brains Theory explains the cortex’s non-hierarchical connections, and why they matter for building machine intelligence.
Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
July 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Many people think of the brain as a hierarchical system, and in many ways it is. But there is also a lot of non-hierarchical processing going on. Check out this pre-print where we review and propose functional roles for the different long-range connections in the neocortex 🧠
Latest updates to the Thousand Brains Theory!
New paper dropped! “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain” The Thousand Brains Theory explains the cortex’s non-hierarchical connections, and why they matter for building machine intelligence.
Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888
July 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Latest updates to the Thousand Brains Theory!
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
Super excited to share our new paper! We spent the past years building an alternative AI approach, and now we demonstrate a whole range of advantages. Robust object & pose detection, generalization, data and compute efficient training, continual learning, shape bias, intelligent policies, and more!🦾
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The first paper: “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference”, is out now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494. It showcases our first working system, codename Monty.
The first paper: “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference”, is out now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494. It showcases our first working system, codename Monty.
July 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Super excited to share our new paper! We spent the past years building an alternative AI approach, and now we demonstrate a whole range of advantages. Robust object & pose detection, generalization, data and compute efficient training, continual learning, shape bias, intelligent policies, and more!🦾
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
Ok this is one I've been really excited to share - our pre-print demonstrating the capabilities of thousand-brain systems is now out 🧠🚀 It gives a great overview of why we believe the approach we're taking is so promising. Rapid and continual learning leading to rapid and...
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This week, we’re releasing two milestone papers: one shows the amazing capabilities of thousand-brains systems and their benefits over deep learning, the other proposes a new theory of long-range connections in the neocortex. Years of work led to this.
This week, we’re releasing two milestone papers: one shows the amazing capabilities of thousand-brains systems and their benefits over deep learning, the other proposes a new theory of long-range connections in the neocortex. Years of work led to this.
July 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Ok this is one I've been really excited to share - our pre-print demonstrating the capabilities of thousand-brain systems is now out 🧠🚀 It gives a great overview of why we believe the approach we're taking is so promising. Rapid and continual learning leading to rapid and...
The papers demonstrating neocortex-inspired sensorimotor AI are finally here!
If you are interested in what comes after LLMs, then these are the ones to read.
If you are interested in what comes after LLMs, then these are the ones to read.
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This week, we’re releasing two milestone papers: one shows the amazing capabilities of thousand-brains systems and their benefits over deep learning, the other proposes a new theory of long-range connections in the neocortex. Years of work led to this.
This week, we’re releasing two milestone papers: one shows the amazing capabilities of thousand-brains systems and their benefits over deep learning, the other proposes a new theory of long-range connections in the neocortex. Years of work led to this.
July 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The papers demonstrating neocortex-inspired sensorimotor AI are finally here!
If you are interested in what comes after LLMs, then these are the ones to read.
If you are interested in what comes after LLMs, then these are the ones to read.
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
🚨 New video drop, the first in a series on object behavior, initiated at our Feb retreat.
We dive into how the neocortex models behavior and tracks features through movement in cortical structures.
Follow our journey as we uncover how behavior works.
🔗 youtu.be/TzP53N2LsRs
We dive into how the neocortex models behavior and tracks features through movement in cortical structures.
Follow our journey as we uncover how behavior works.
🔗 youtu.be/TzP53N2LsRs
2025/02 - Brainstorming on Modeling Object Behaviors and Representations in Minicolumns
YouTube video by Thousand Brains Project
youtu.be
May 19, 2025 at 4:46 AM
🚨 New video drop, the first in a series on object behavior, initiated at our Feb retreat.
We dive into how the neocortex models behavior and tracks features through movement in cortical structures.
Follow our journey as we uncover how behavior works.
🔗 youtu.be/TzP53N2LsRs
We dive into how the neocortex models behavior and tracks features through movement in cortical structures.
Follow our journey as we uncover how behavior works.
🔗 youtu.be/TzP53N2LsRs
Reposted by Tristan Slominski
It's fascinating watching developers discover they get better results using "A.I." if they prompt with tests, work in small steps, test continuously, review and refactor throughout, integrate often, and work in smaller teams, and attributing those results to autocomplete.
May 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
It's fascinating watching developers discover they get better results using "A.I." if they prompt with tests, work in small steps, test continuously, review and refactor throughout, integrate often, and work in smaller teams, and attributing those results to autocomplete.