Eric Jang   

@ericjang11

Research scientist at Robotics @ Google. Formerly at Pixar Animation Studios and Two Sigma Investments. Brown '16. I love science. All opinions are my own.

Joined January 2014

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  1. Feb 1

    50 cognitive biases, quite a few because of energy-intense human brains being so efficient at being more (energy-)efficient, e.g. Google effect, lazy causal inference, self-exceptionalism.

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  2. John Schulman is one of the researchers I admire most in the field. Awesome guide for how to do a PhD / break into research! I need to implement more papers from scratch...

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  4. Check out Energy Gang's recent podcast episodes on investment and clean tech! Jigar and Catherine bring a lot of insight on the bizdev and policy aspects of cleantech investment, in addition to the tech plays that most VCs fund.

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  5. U may wonder why defining a single net requires so many abstractions (GraspingModel, LegacyGraspingModelWrapper, CriticModel, blah blah). This is because the QT-Opt system has been continuously refactored & adapted to a large team's needs for 5 years 🤕. Welcome to SW eng!!

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  6. Robot "arm farm" not included

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  7. Every 1-2 months, "QT-Opt grasping" paper authors receive an email asking about implementation details of the convnet. Took awhile, but we finally got around to open-sourcing the QT-Opt model as a Tensor2Robot model.

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  9. Jan 13

    There's great potential in the use of machine learning for a wide variety of weather and climate problems. Here's one example, predicting precipitation at much finer spatial granularity than traditional physics-based models.

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  10. P.s. on the subject of reviewing office equipment, I've always wanted to review a Titan RTX GPU 😂

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  11. Cons: the chair seat is large and might be too big for short people (5ft and under). armrests are side-to-side adjustable, but need to be tightened or they slip and slide around.

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  12. having a good ergo setup is a good long-term investment. The office furniture folks at kindly sent me one of their ErgoChairs () to review. Pros: nice breathable back, all the adjustable options of a pro office chair.

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  13. Jan 7

    Peloton sent me my "2019 year in review." They didn't design for the edge case where the user only used the Peloton one time during the whole year.

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  14. Jan 7

    Lulu Wang explains why she turned down double $$$ from a streamer for The Farewell to go with A24 & I feel it pretty much sums up the situation in film right now

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  16. 8/ Simulations of reality often lack the functional properties of modeled objects (never mind chemical properties). Cooking eggs would be a good forcing function to encourage us to not overfit to or rely to heavily on simulation.

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  17. 7/ For those interested in RL research, maybe instead of trying to estimate empowerment of a policy in an entire world, you can more easily estimate the empowerment w.r.t. a single versatile object (the egg).

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  18. 6/ Many objects in human spaces have functional properties (doors open, hand tools convert energy, buttons are pressed). An egg is not typically thought of as a tool, but it has as many functional forms as there are ways to cook it. Great object to master manipulation skill over.

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  19. 5/ it's still hard to imagine general purpose robots with our current software and hardware, i.e. defining useful tasks for robots without solving AGI. I think an "eggs any style" robot would be a concretely useful, well-defined problem scope with real utility to real people.

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  20. 4/ current computer vision algorithms have a very pose-centric, object way of understanding scenes. Having to manipulate an amorphous scramble in a pan or watch a poached egg disappear under a swirling mass of egg white would likely break those abstractions.

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