Research, Data & RL @ https://xitter.cf/t.co/hZnsTRt289 | previously 2× founder + genomics core lab head

San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2014
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This Wednesday, join @ArthitaG (GM of Robotics and World Modeling) and @gowthami_s for a COLM happy hour bringing together researchers in the multimodal space. Sponsored by Sieve. Spots are limited, RSVP to secure your place. partiful.com/e/qegirq7rH5iyz…
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The hottest debate of the year: do robots need 🌎 world models 🌎? Join us at CoRL 2026 for a scientific debate on the case for — and against — world models for robotics, featuring @chelseabfinn @vincesitzmann @YunzhuLiYZ @GeorgiaChal! 📄 Paper submissions are open now and close October 12. We welcome both research papers and position papers. 🏆 Submit your work for a chance to win an NVIDIA Jetson Thor or a Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra! Organized by @longhini_a @wenlong_huang Lasse Peters, @Jefferson_Aero , @PatkiSiddharth @jeff_ichnowski @drfeifei and myself. Thanks to sponsors @NVIDIARobotics and @Samsung!
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Our co-founders @LiamFedus and @ekindogus sat down with @mariogabriele to discuss @periodiclabs, the limits of pure digital AI, and creating autonomous labs where nature is the RL environment.
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Replying to @dylanmcguir3
@dylanmcguir3 and I just raised a $7.5M pre-seed led by @a16z to build a robotic surgeon @alephsurgery Much of the early investment in Physical AI has focused on industries where labor is relatively abundant and low-cost. We believe the biggest opportunities to change the world lie at the opposite end of the spectrum. Surgery is among the most valuable forms of labor on the planet, but it's far too scarce and expensive - due to an exceptionally long training pipeline and highly concentrated expertise. We’re building the first surgeon that scales: one system that can acquire, refine, and transfer surgical skills across millions of procedures. v1 is already learning to perform surgical tasks autonomously from demonstrations, and improve from its own experience. Lots of great folks behind us! @BoxGroup, Reveille VC, Constellation, @forward_deploy, @Valkyrie_vc, @DiscipulusVent, @maniacvc + more
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Jeve is now live on jeve.punitarani.com
Presenting Jeve (pronounced jeev - sanskrit word for life) A simulation engine mostly powered by Jev from @typesafeai Jeve is significantly more efficient (cost and time) compared to LLM-based GABMs and is a solid framework for long-running simulations Live demo coming soon
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I converted all 1760 Harvey Labs tasks to Harbor format for anyone to run and experiment easily Great dataset, tasks and release from @harvey harbor run -d punitarani/harvey-labs
We're open-sourcing 10 RL environments for M&A due diligence. In our LAB: Diligence environments, agents do research in a virtual data room (VDR) and draft a diligence memo for a merger or acquisition. The largest of these environments contains 80M tokens of context with 1,000 grading criteria. M&A diligence is one of the most difficult tasks for frontier agents due to: 1) Long context: A single thread of VDR research may involve hundreds of documents in a dataroom that contains hundreds of thousands. 2) Exhaustivity: every document must be searched for needle-in-a-haystack provisions that kill a deal. 3) Data: M&A diligence data is privately held by transactional law firms - models aren't trained to do it. It is also one of the world' most valuable knowledge work tasks: global M&A volume is ~$4T annually, of which ~1% is spent on diligence. Deep dive below by @ItsJulioPereyra and @nikogrupen:
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I wrote something on reward hacking 🐵 and we're also doing free compute 👀
Reward hacking is the hardest problem in RL. We design settings where hacking is predictable, and find patterns between task difficulty and hack frequency. These runs are highly efficient, using <$1 in compute. We’re launching Sprints to allow everyone to join this effort.
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gumloop raised a $50m series b led by benchmark here's a video we had fun making about the journey back to work.
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Don’t worry, there is an AI lab actually working on cancer.
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I'm excited to share my work on the Virtual Lab, a collaboration between LLM-powered AI agents and human researchers to identify nanobody binders to SARS-CoV-2, published in @Nature. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… Our code is publicly available at github.com/zou-group/virtual…
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Delicious prompt sando from @alxai_ at @every’s Claude Code Camp⛺️. So many insights...excited for the next one!
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🚀💫 We are so proud to have our @TwistBioscience PGx panel long-read @nanopore data to be used as part of the upcoming FREE Virtual Training Project offered by @MilrdOrg with @nvidia & @DeepOriginBio! We also have the great opportunity for some of our CariGenetics interns #MatthewWest, #MicaelaMcLean & #SandraWatt to be Assistant Mentors for this Webinar, helping those who participate. 👨🏾‍💻👩🏾‍💻👩🏼‍💻 By being apart of this VTP, we have ensured the inclusion of diverse data that represents Caribbean genomics 🏝️ Are you an aspiring bioinformatician or data scientist interest in applying your skills to genetic data? This Webinar is for just for you 🙌🏾 Sign-up here ✍️: deeporigin.com/register-for-… Please RT to spread the word 🗣️
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I did the same VTP training with @JustinAPater from @MilrdOrg and found it incredibly useful to learn how to QC scRNA-seq data (&more) in a more realistic aws environment. Lots of hands-on help and a fantastic learning experience. Special thx to @paulscheid!
1/4 Science Tweeps! Last week I completed the Single-cell Transcriptomics + Lung Cell Characterization Virtual Training Project(bit.ly/3dv7eZD) from @MilrdOrg and loved it!!! ❤️❤️❤️ I highly recommend this for anyone looking to get started with scRNAseq analysis.
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Thank you @JustinAPater! Science Twitter: we still have slots for this and other VTPs available. Unlimited support + your own @awscloud instance + help/advice with your own data Schedule + Enrollment Info here: milrd.org/schedule-enrollmen…
1/4 Science Tweeps! Last week I completed the Single-cell Transcriptomics + Lung Cell Characterization Virtual Training Project(bit.ly/3dv7eZD) from @MilrdOrg and loved it!!! ❤️❤️❤️ I highly recommend this for anyone looking to get started with scRNAseq analysis.
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Paul Scheid retweeted
We are very excited to be working with @Sc_Ninjas on this! Great option if you want to be guided step-by-step through scRNAseq analysis by expert mentors using open source code+tools+data and your own @awscloud HPC instance. Join us!!!👇👇👇
Are you a wet-lab biologist interested in learning scRNAseq Analysis?  We’re currently participating in the Single-cell Transcriptomics + Lung Cell Characterization Virtual Training Project(bit.ly/3dv7eZD) from @MilrdOrg and we're helping cohorts later this summer. 1/5
All of the code+data for the awesome @metasub project headed by the Mason Lab are open source, but if you want to be guided step-by-step through the metagenomic analysis of these samples using your own AWS HPC instance and led by knowledgeable mentors... (short thread)
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...check out our Virtual Training Project based on this work: bit.ly/3h07FvW Schedule and registration here: milrd.org/schedule-enrollmen…
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Applying to STEM PhD programs in the US can be intimidating and overwhelming, especially for students from underrepresented backgrounds. Below we illuminate some inequities in the grad school application and admission processes 1/
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Our Bioinformatics Training program is designed to take students with no prior experience through a Bioinformatics project within just ONE week. High school and college students can apply at themindsof.com/learnbioinfor… Thank you Cleon for sharing your experience! @MilrdOrg
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