Mikhail Jacob (he/him)
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Machine learning, D&D, music Currently at The Coalition studio, Vancouver.
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Hello! š I'm excited that this place can replace the other one. I'm an applied ML researcher/engineer with The Coalition studio. Currently creating ML-powered tools for our games. Previously shipped RL/IL bots in Racket Club at Resolution Games. Before that, MSR postdoc + Georgia Tech PhD.
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I absolutely love this project! Such joy and whimsy. š
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We updated the plots we use to measure the open model ecosystem at interconnects, to guide The ATOM Project, and to understand what's happening. We have ~8 plots to summarize what's happening. First, the high level picture showing China's growing adoption lead.
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New generalist game playing agent from the MineDojo folks. Super interesting data pipeline.
nitrogen.minedojo.org
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NitroGen | A Foundation Model for Generalist Gaming Agents
https://nitrogen.minedojo.org/
about 1 month ago
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Constantine
about 2 months ago
LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD: It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS. I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
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Gautam Kamath
2 months ago
Thoughtful (as always) blog post from Nicholas Carlini. "Are large language models worth it?" A nice read giving his perspective on risks of ML models. Post:
nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025...
For people who prefer, this is the video of the talk from
@colmweb.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PngH...
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Tim Onion
2 months ago
āI want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.ā
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Victoria Bosch
3 months ago
Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan š§ š¬ 1/n
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Charlie Kirkās Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasnāt a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/#
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Pure evil stacked upon pure genocidal evil...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Palestinians flee Gaza City as Israel says first stages of assault have begun - BBC News
An Israeli military spokesman says troops will deepen the damage to the "terror infrastructure" held by Hamas.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyr7l0z9edo.amp
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Dave Jorgenson
5 months ago
An Israeli strike targeted at least one journalist in Gaza, killing five total
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Israeli defence ministerās Gaza proposal marks escalation from incitement of war crimes to official planning for mass forced displacement
Plans for an internment camp on ruins of Rafah are āunviable, impractical and morally depravedā but should be taken seriously
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/08/israeli-plans-for-forced-transfer-of-gazas-population-faces-challenge-by-army-reservists
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Sophia Babai
7 months ago
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdaniās dad (same like āmy stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmatesā) and apparently the New York Times doesnāt understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my momās people!
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āGaza must be eliminatedā: Israelās airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi
Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/27/israel-gaza-propaganda
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Jonathan Cook
8 months ago
Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:
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Charles Louis Richter
8 months ago
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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Don't threaten me with a good time, ad that keeps popping up. 𤣠Seriously though, having lived in two (2) countries where the government calculated and filed my taxes perfectly well, I don't understand the outrage. Stupid lobbyists astroturfing non-issues.
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Aside from being furious about everything, *gestures wildly around* I love the framing here. You're white, you're Canadian, surely you don't belong in immigration detention. Everyone else obviously does, but you definitely shouldn't be. Cue sympathy and outrage.
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Canadian actor detained at US border in āinhumane conditionsā for nearly two weeks
Entrepreneur and actor Jasmine Mooney, who had a role in an American Pie sequel, says she was arrested at southern border and held in detention over an incomplete work visa
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/canadian-actor-jasmine-mooney-detained-mexico-border
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Stone Cold Jane Austen
10 months ago
when you tried so hard and got sofa but in the end, it doesn't even matter
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Trump to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday to sanction the International Criminal Court for targeting the United States and its allies, such as Israel, a White House official said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-impose-sanctions-international-criminal-court-2025-02-06/
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When you hate smart people...
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Resolution Games
12 months ago
Your next great adventure awaits! Today weāre unveiling Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked (
@battlemarked.bsky.social
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www.battlemarked.com
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Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked | Official Announce Trailer
YouTube video by Resolution Games
https://youtu.be/cypwLhY8BP4
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Mishell Baker
about 1 year ago
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
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Chris Bratt
about 1 year ago
Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia. Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)
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This story is truly horrifying. Serious abuse of outsourced game creators from Indonesia.
youtu.be/RR9HQ2C6h_4?...
TW/CW: Descriptions and depictions of abuse of various kinds (physical, mental, financial)
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100 Slaps: The Breaking News The Games Industry Ignored in 2024
YouTube video by People Make Games
https://youtu.be/RR9HQ2C6h_4?si=AG1ubRn2diZfPyQC
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NPR
about 1 year ago
A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected ā and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.
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Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout
A program in Brazil that give a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected ā and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/01/03/nx-s1-5246014/tb-tuberculosis-brazil-poverty-cash-transfer
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Felipe Pepe
about 1 year ago
Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities:
felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi...
AKA, why LAN Houses, PokƩTibia & Bomba Patch rule.
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The Gentrification of Video Game History
Weāre not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas
https://felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrification-of-video-game-history-dfe11f1e08ae
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Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow š
about 1 year ago
ŁA Daring article on polygon Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the 1948 Nakba, is the latest from a daring dev.
www.polygon.com/gaming/50073...
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Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the 1948 Nakba, is the latest from a daring dev
The stealth adventure game is about people displaced by Zionist occupation
https://www.polygon.com/gaming/500737/dreams-on-a-pillow-crowdfund-palestine-game
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Infectious Disease Tracker
about 1 year ago
Scientists at RAND warn that H5N1 bird flu poses increasing risks in the U.S., with human cases of unknown origin and widespread animal transmission. They stress the urgent need for nationwide measures to prevent a potential mutation enabling human-to-human transmission.
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Hilarious!
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Well, this (worldview) is stupid...
www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...
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Here Come The Anti-Woke Venture Capitalists
A group called New Founding is among the investors building an 'anti-woke' blueprint for venture capital ā and billionaire Marc Andreessen is in.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/12/23/anti-woke-venture-capital-new-founding/
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With great power comes great responsibility... to ditch any values you hold and maximise shareholder value.
www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...
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OpenAIās new defense contract completes its military pivot
A new partnership with Anduril, announced today, will deploy AI on the battlefield. It represents an overhaul of the companyās position in just a year.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1107897/openais-new-defense-contract-completes-its-military-pivot/
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Here's my annual reminder to please share arxiv abstract links instead of pdf links in posts/threads. Easiest way to be platform friendly. Thanks again for sharing all your fantastic research. š
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Janet H Murray
about 1 year ago
The state of Georgia doesnāt want citizens to know about the lethal effects of its abortion ban.
www.ajc.com/partner/geor...
thanks to
@propublica.org
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They were tasked to investigate deaths of pregnant women. Georgia dismissed them all
Georgia's Maternal Mortality Review Committee members have been dismissed after reports on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller became public.
https://www.ajc.com/partner/georgia-dismissed-all-members-of-maternal-mortality-committee-after-details-of-2-deaths-became-public/3PO7J6YIUVCUPFOBJ5SAMEKMPE/
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US vetoes UN resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza because there's no link to a hostage release
The United States has vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the war in Gaza because it is not linked to an immediate release of hostages taken captive by Hamas in Israel in Oct...
https://apnews.com/article/un-gaza-resolution-veto-hamas-israel-hostages-b5281432fc2acdc1860adb3015392c0b
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Hello! š I'm excited that this place can replace the other one. I'm an applied ML researcher/engineer with The Coalition studio. Currently creating ML-powered tools for our games. Previously shipped RL/IL bots in Racket Club at Resolution Games. Before that, MSR postdoc + Georgia Tech PhD.
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