I was on the job market recently, open to suggestions on what I should do next. I’m deeply thankful to all those who reached out and pitched their companies, and also to people who shared their wisdom of how they wanted to navigate their own careers.| Eric Jang
There are 397 companies in the recent YC 2022 Winter batch. Which ones should you invest in?| Eric Jang
DeepMind Robotics published the paper “RoboCat: A Self-Improving Foundation Agent for Robotic Manipulation (PDF)” earlier this week. I read the 50-page report and summarize in this post what I found to be the most interesting results from the paper. Some of my claims and inferences in this blog post are speculative because they draw from my experience working on similar projects (BC-Z, SayCan, MGDT).| Eric Jang
In my essay “Just ask for Generalization”, I argued that some optimization capabilities, such as reinforcement learning from sub-optimal trajectories, might be better implemented by generalization than by construction. We have to generalize to unseen situations at deployment time anyway, so why not focus on generalization capability as the first class citizen, and then “just ask for optimality” as an unseen case? A corollary to this design philosophy is that we should discard inductiv...| Eric Jang