Fluorescent Filament Makes Object Identification Easier - QR codes are a handy way to embed information, but they aren’t exactly pretty. New... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/17/fluorescent-filament-makes-object-identification-easier/ #3dprinterfilament #machinereadable #3dprinterhacks #machinevision #infraredtags #infrared #mitcsail #qrcode #csail #label #fdm #mit #ir

Last was an intriguing talk by Marco Pavone on building trust in autonomous vehicles at #CSAIL. Integrating #LLMs into driving simulation is something I haven't heard before, although it strikes me as a more incremental improvement over existing methods than something likely to push #AVs to wide deployment https://www.youtube.com/live/HjOt-4k6haI?feature=share&t=760 (6/6) #AI

@blacklight @DrHyde @tyil The #JargonFile started being passed around and accumulating entries through the 1970s at #Stanford, #MIT, #CarnegieMellon, Bolt Beranek and Newman, and other pre-Internet computing centers. Some terms date back to the late 1950s MIT Tech Model Railroad Club, a very early progenitor of #hacker culture.

Far more than you ever wanted to know here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File

#SAIL #CSAIL #CMU #BBN #ARPANET #AI #Lisp #TMRC

Next was a nice talk by Monroe Kennedy III on collaborative #robotics at #CSAIL. There's interesting work here on robot dexterity and human prediction using a variety of #sensors https://www.youtube.com/live/ii8ZNXaZ0hg?feature=share&t=912 (5/7)

First was an interesting talk by Jeannette Bohg on scaling #robot learning for long-horizon tasks at #CSAIL. Robot manipulation over long time scales is challenging, and the novel approach to tackle this that was presented here combines YouTube videos, #LLMs, and skill libraries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca-CxLZ2mq8&t=1s (2/7) #robotics

Eulerian Video Magnification still seems like magic after all these years.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/evm/

#computervision #computerscience #machinevision #csail #compsci

Last was a great talk by Graham Neubig on evaluating and learning model #explainability at #CSAIL. The field of #MachineLearning explainability doesn't have good quantitative evaluation tools, and the work presented here, which aims to use ML to evaluate explainability, is quite compelling. I would like to see some evaluations of this technique with human raters to validate it more thoroughly, hopefully that's coming soon. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcP5bvODzY (5/5)

Next was an interesting talk by James Glass on recent progress in audio-visual language learning at #CSAIL. After a quick summary of the latest in the space, Glass presents some fascinating work using crowdsourced spoken image captions across multiple languages. The results aren't perfect, but demonstrate how multimodality might unlock training effective models with far less data than current #LLMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CfBMQ3cvJs (3/5) #MachineLearning

#3FT💅 French Touch French Theory French Tech => Hacker Academy => Touch Symposium

by #CM 😘

#MIT #CSAIL

Last was an enthralling talk by @animesh_garg on building generally autonomous #robots at #CSAIL. The argument that making truly autonomous systems requires embodiment, pre-defined causal and world models, and data is explored from a variety of perspectives here, demonstrating some impressive results. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHf8ysoqyCw (10/10)

Next was an engrossing talk on scene representation by Vincent Sitzmann at #CSAIL. There might be a slight technical barrier to entry, but the new ways to think about scene understanding and #visualization are brilliant and elegant. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX6nsIvMYaU (5/8)

Next was a more technical talk at #CSAIL by Rob Fergus on #data augmentation for image-based #ReinforcementLearning. This is an extremely hard problem, and the authors show some impressive progress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny2CpgPrtB8 (8/10)

RT #MIT #CSAIL

32 years ago today Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau emailed colleagues outlining a proposal for a hypertext project that they dubbed "World Wide Web".

https://w3.org/Proposal.html

(v/ @w3c )

#TDIH #TodayInTech #WWW

#TimBernersLee #RobertCailliau #hypertext #WorldWideWe

"WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project" 👇

SNA to SNA JOSE; #cme, #cnir #csail @nsagov@twitter.com #cnuklir https://instagr.am/p/CEXcZLFs2ul/

If you frame the entire #Stallman resignation story as an isolated event, you're missing:
1) years of documented RMS behaviour by him along the same lines of the #Epstein #Minsky episode
2) the fact that Joi Ito resigned from the #MIT Media Lab a few days before, for hiding years of donations by #Epstein

Remember that the email that sparked this episode was on one of the MIT #CSAIL lists. Framing the events of the last few days as a "free software" thing is a very partial view.