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Advances in OpenVLA: On how I can legitimize my crazy ambitious line of research as a complete outsider.
A breakdown on the OpenVLA paper first published in 2024. A 7B open-source vision-language-action model that outperforms Google's closed 55B RT-2-X - and what it means for someone just entering robotics research.
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My first project in the Newline AI Accelerator taught me that the real product isn't the dataset, it's the evaluation pipeline around it.
mini-projectsynthetic-dataevaluationmlopsllm-as-judgeNotebooks as a Learning Space
Jupyter notebooks are SO darn handy. Where have they been my whole life?
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A quick-start guide to RSS — pick a reader, find feeds, and take back control of what you read.
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A structured reference for every markdown feature supported on this site.
designmarkdownOn Friction
Why lowering the cost of starting something is more important than motivation.
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On the origin of easter eggs.
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The obligatory first post. What this site is, what it's built with, and what I plan to put here.
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