firuza rahimova

everything seems to boil down to signal detection theory.........

rodney brooks papers hit different after you've found out he is behind the first vacuum cleaner robots...

chatgpt being the main conversational companion on day-to-day basis melted into own phrasings, mirroring AI speech automated non-cheating plagiarism

how am i supposed to get attention if puns are not allowed in article titles? unacceptable

flatmate told me about how Norway's oil money is used to fund the whole population in a fixed amount for everyone and i started sobbing

me_ i wonder why learning statistics makes me feel like i'm sinning..
also moi__

i broke my favourite tooth dropping my iphone on my face..

been using python 2.7 to command NAO and the absence of f-strings is getting me nostalgic

The Beetle Roboticists: A Parable - Matthew T. Mason How do we assess ideas about humanoids, without our anthropocentric bias? Maybe if the ideas were being pushed by another species. Beetles?

New perspective can help question 1st order arguments & get to more nuanced technologies. Blog by past head of CMU's Robotics Institute @mattmasonrobo.bsky.social on rush to humanoid hands. He's spent 50yrs in academia & industry working on robot grasping&manipulation. mtmason.com/the-beetle-r...

so inspired by dougie jones i wanna hook Pepper up such that it repeats single important bit of the sentence and is liked better than the Pepper who can keep up a conversation

want to raise a baby and generalize instead of sitting through a thousand pages of developmental psychology literature

i wonder how interested infants are in learning rules