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2022

2022.07.11 Job Hunt as a PhD in AI / ML / RL: How it Actually Happens
2022.07.07 The last reliable (available) path into AI

2021

2021.09.04 ML/RL & Microrobotics
2021.06.30 Lifelong Learning 2021
2021.06.30 Exploitation Exploration (in MBRL)
2021.06.30 Robot learning, model-based RL, and related optimization at NeurIPs 2020
2021.06.29 Debugging Deep Model-based Reinforcement Learning Systems
2021.06.28 All grad students (should) study graphic design
2021.04.05 Reflecting on being a graduate student (in AI) in 2020
2021.02.16 Medium tries to save its writers
2021.02.16 A Different Intro to RL in 30 Minutes

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2025

2025.06.21 What I've been reading (#1)
2025.06.18 Crafting a good (reasoning) model
2025.06.12 The rise of reasoning machines
2025.06.09 What comes next with reinforcement learning
2025.06.06 How I Write
2025.06.04 A taxonomy for next-generation reasoning models
2025.05.29 Latest open artifacts (#10): New DeepSeek R1 0528!, more permissive licenses, everything as a reasoner, and from artifacts to agents
2025.05.27 Reinforcement learning with random rewards actually works with Qwen 2.5
2025.05.27 Claude 4 and Anthropic's bet on code
2025.05.21 People use AI more than you think
2025.05.14 My path into AI
2025.05.06 What people get wrong about the leading Chinese open models: Adoption and censorship
2025.05.04 Sycophancy and the art of the model
2025.04.30 State of play of AI progress (and related brakes on an intelligence explosion)
2025.04.28 Qwen 3: The new open standard
2025.04.28 Transparency and (shifting) priority stacks
2025.04.21 The latest open artifacts (#9): RLHF book draft, where the open reasoning race is going, and unsung heroes of open LM work
2025.04.19 OpenAI's o3: Over-optimization is back and weirder than ever
2025.04.14 OpenAI's GPT-4.1 and separating the API from ChatGPT
2025.04.07 Llama 4: Did Meta just push the panic button?

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