Rafael Pinto
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Rafael Pinto
@rcpinto.bsky.social
CS / AI / ML PhD / Professor. 🇧🇷 ♾️
Working on meta-learning, continual learning, control, evo, RL, game AI.
Hobbyist game dev (@megamanbeyond.com)

Local news and useless facts about my life in PT-BR. EN otherwise.
Funny news from 🇧🇷:

The Havaianas flip-flop brand released a commercial suggesting not starting the year on the right foot, but on both feet. The far-right is boycotting the brand.

They are also suing a band over a 40-year-old song that insults Santa Claus, for "religious offense".
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Quê?? Pediram pra todo mundo sair do governo, e depois pediram pra indicar um novo?? E vocês ainda nessa "troca" em que só o governo cede??
December 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
In an alternate universe
December 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
December 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
So you aren't going to take it down, even though I'm the only clown who recently wrote a highly visible critique
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🏆
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Oh, you're back...
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
GM, 2023
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Stochastic parrot my ass.

"Deep sequence models tend to memorize geometrically; it is unclear why"

www.reddit.com/r/accelerate...
November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
When people treat AI, ML, and GenAI as disjoint sets:
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
November 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Asking the real questions
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 AM
🤦‍♂️
October 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The best reason to root for Helix and their Figure robots so far:
October 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
October 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Wow, didn't know such a document existed.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
October 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
That made me chuckle @tedunderwood.me
October 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Michaël Trazzi ended hunger strike outside Deepmind after 7 days due to serious health complications
September 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM