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🎓 Excited to defend my PhD thesis “Learning Universal Humanoid Control” at CMU this Friday! From scalable motion imitators to visual dexterous whole-body policies — it’s been a wild ride 🤖✨ 📅 April 25, 2025 📍 CMU RI & online 🔗

Zhengyi “Zen” Luo

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Jim Fan1 year ago

So proud of you!!

Zhengyi “Zen” Luo1 year ago

Thank you boss 🫡

Estadio Deportes1 year ago

#ExtraCancha LO MEJOR DE ENERO 🥹 Enero duró una eternidad, pero estos animes nos lo hicieron duradero. 😩Es por ello que reconocemos a lo mejor del primer mes del 2025. 😉 ¡Son los mejores títulos! #Anime #enero #ranking

Baixin Guo(Max)1 year ago

恭喜啊哥🎉

ζ Pedram ζ1 year ago

Good stuff, Kung Fu time?

Andrew Carr (e/🤸)1 year ago

Congrats Zen

Zhengyi “Zen” Luo1 year ago

Thanks Andrew!!!

mansin1 year ago

Baller

Markie Kendahl1 year ago

you don’t see this often. @MichaelDavisW the consistency is insane. Really can’t ignore I started using his exact entries,

101 year ago

good job

SHILONG SUN1 year ago

Congrats, Dr.

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Owen Gregorian

67,975 views • 1 year ago

Everybody is talking about recursive self-improvement (RSI) and meta learning. Here is my old 2020 talk about this [1]. It has aged well. Example: humans still define the starts & ends of trials of many modern meta learners. My RSI systems since 1994 LEARN to (re)define them [2]! [1] Meta Learning Machines in a Single Lifelong Trial (talk for workshops at ICML 2020 and NeurIPS 2021, based on earlier talks since 1994). Abstract: the most widely used machine learning algorithms were designed by humans and thus are hindered by our cognitive biases and limitations. Can we also construct meta learning algorithms that can learn better learning algorithms so that our self-improving AIs have no limits other than those inherited from computability and physics? This question has been a main driver of my research since I wrote a thesis on it in 1987 [2]. Here I summarize our work on meta reinforcement learning with self-modifying policies in a single lifelong trial (since 1994), and mathematically optimal meta-learning through the self-referential Gödel Machine (since 2003). Many additional publications on meta-learning since 1987 can be found in the RSI overview [2]. [2] J. Schmidhuber (AI Blog, 2020-2025). 1/3 century anniversary of first publication on recursive self-improvement (RSI) and meta learning machines that learn to learn (1987). For its cover I drew a robot that bootstraps itself. 1992-: gradient descent-based neural meta learning. 1994-: meta reinforcement learning with self-modifying policies. 1997: meta RL plus artificial curiosity and intrinsic motivation. 2002-: asymptotically optimal meta learning for curriculum learning. 2003-: mathematically optimal Gödel Machine. 2020-: new stuff!

Everybody is talking about recursive self-improvement (RSI) and meta learning. Here is my old 2020 talk about this [1]. It has aged well. Example: humans still define the starts & ends of trials of many modern meta learners. My RSI systems since 1994 LEARN to (re)define them [2]! [1] Meta Learning Machines in a Single Lifelong Trial (talk for workshops at ICML 2020 and NeurIPS 2021, based on earlier talks since 1994). Abstract: the most widely used machine learning algorithms were designed by humans and thus are hindered by our cognitive biases and limitations. Can we also construct meta learning algorithms that can learn better learning algorithms so that our self-improving AIs have no limits other than those inherited from computability and physics? This question has been a main driver of my research since I wrote a thesis on it in 1987 [2]. Here I summarize our work on meta reinforcement learning with self-modifying policies in a single lifelong trial (since 1994), and mathematically optimal meta-learning through the self-referential Gödel Machine (since 2003). Many additional publications on meta-learning since 1987 can be found in the RSI overview [2]. [2] J. Schmidhuber (AI Blog, 2020-2025). 1/3 century anniversary of first publication on recursive self-improvement (RSI) and meta learning machines that learn to learn (1987). For its cover I drew a robot that bootstraps itself. 1992-: gradient descent-based neural meta learning. 1994-: meta reinforcement learning with self-modifying policies. 1997: meta RL plus artificial curiosity and intrinsic motivation. 2002-: asymptotically optimal meta learning for curriculum learning. 2003-: mathematically optimal Gödel Machine. 2020-: new stuff!

Jürgen Schmidhuber

231,872 views • 5 months ago

Found the suppressed video of Charlie Kirk at the Andy Biggs launch rally May 31, 2025. It’s been scrubbed from TPUSA outlets. In it, Charlie spoke of a long 10-year journey and the wild ride ahead pushing toward 2026. He urged: keep the narrative and the story straight. Frank Turek claimed they were “mentoring Charlie to be better.” Bullshit. Charlie was the best-flawed like any man, but a powerhouse. What they meant was narrative control. Charlie started breaking free, telling his own story. He never got to finish it. The truth got him killed on Sept. 10, 2025. He wasn’t perfect. He was controlled. This was his last major TPAction rally. They couldn’t control him forever. Rest in power and peace, Charlie. The fight continues.

Found the suppressed video of Charlie Kirk at the Andy Biggs launch rally May 31, 2025. It’s been scrubbed from TPUSA outlets. In it, Charlie spoke of a long 10-year journey and the wild ride ahead pushing toward 2026. He urged: keep the narrative and the story straight. Frank Turek claimed they were “mentoring Charlie to be better.” Bullshit. Charlie was the best-flawed like any man, but a powerhouse. What they meant was narrative control. Charlie started breaking free, telling his own story. He never got to finish it. The truth got him killed on Sept. 10, 2025. He wasn’t perfect. He was controlled. This was his last major TPAction rally. They couldn’t control him forever. Rest in power and peace, Charlie. The fight continues.

Matt Tucciarone

59,476 views • 1 month ago