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I suspect many are rightfully pessimistic about the state of academia, not basic research. Starting a PhD now is betting on there being change to the very old and slow academic system. Risky bet if you ask me.
One of the worst forms of brainrot AI has cultivated is pessimism about basic research, ie the idea that important work can only happen inside a frontier/neo lab and only with 10k+ GPUs, so the rest should not even bother. What a bleak way to think about science. And it's false.View quoted post on X
Catering to the wrong market? Backprop is painful for recurrent methods and requires workarounds for non-differential ops. Comparing on standard architectures is good but will likely not convince anyone
We've figured out how to *pretrain transformers* with zeroth-order optimization and no backprop.
Many of the core assumptions in optimization research are completely wrong.
(paper out soon)View quoted post on X
This should be standard imo
At our new startup, there are ZERO non-competes and we give each employee the choice of either 1 or 3 months notice periods, upon their request.View quoted post on X
Competition is for winners.
BTW, today is the last day to join the founding team.
Asymmetric fixed wing performing robotic take-off and landing live in front of hundreds of people.
Kudos to the team behind that. Truly badass.
Kudos to the team behind that. Truly badass.
𝐀𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐫𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝
It is an honor and a joy to work with the critical industries our civilization runs on to build a new era of Flying Robot Infrastructure that helps keep us all safer and makes our world more efficient. Together with our customers we have made immense progress towards this future over the last year. You can see it in the metrics - 2M flights/year and exponentially growing - and you can see it in the thousands of individual stories where a drone helped save a life, protect an asset, or just save someone from tedious manual work.
But we’re still just getting started. On stage at Skydio Ascend, we announced two new categories of products that will shape the next decade:
• The software Commands: DFR Command, Asset Command, and Security Command. We’re now tapping the true potential of software-defined, autonomous, dock-based drones with industry-specific applications for Public Safety, Energy Infrastructure, and Physical Site Security. Each Command brings together specialized autonomy, customized interfaces and workflows, and deep integrations with complementary software and systems to orchestrate fleets of flying robots and deliver end-to-end solutions for each industry. This makes drones easier to adopt and integrate than ever before, and orders of magnitude more effective once you’re operating them.
• F10 Lightrunner: This is the most advanced fixed-wing drone that has ever existed. It’s launched and caught with a robotic arm (RTOL); its gimbal is on the wingtip which means it never gets obstructed by the wing (SideEye); and it has the evolution of @SkydioHQ Autonomy for fixed-wing aircraft (Foresight). All of these together represent one of the great feats of engineering in the history of aircraft, but we didn’t do it just for fun. F10 will bring the benefits of Drone as First Responder and fully automated drone inspection of critical infrastructure to all the landmass in the free world with 100mph speed and up to 30-mile coverage radius.
We build the coolest technology in the world, with the best team in the world, to serve the most important customers in the world. LFG.View quoted post on X
