Charles Sutton
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind / Ex-academic / Deep learning to help people write code / ❤️s:🐱🐶☕️🍕
- Reposted by Charles SuttonHello all! 👋 🚨 New Preprint Alert! 🚨 Code World Models for General Game-Playing. ♟️🎲 ♣️♥️♠️♦️ I am pleased to announce our new paper, which provides an extremely sample-efficient way to create an agent that can perform well in multi-agent, partially-observed, symbolic environments! 🧵 1/N
- New blog! Advice about career and creativity for researchers and engineers. This time: What my PhD in computer science taught me about gardening. www.theexclusive.org/2025/07/phd-...
- Reposted by Charles Sutton🥁Introducing Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent model with impressive capabilities in advanced reasoning and coding. Now integrating thinking capabilities, 2.5 Pro Experimental is our most performant Gemini model yet. It’s #1 on the LM Arena leaderboard. 🥇
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- Happy fifth birthday to my sourdough starter! Their name is Yeasty. I learned to bake as a teenager but mostly lapsed after I grew up. When the pandemic hit, I decided to try again, and when there was no yeast, I decided to try sourdough again.
- Reposted by Charles SuttonAs a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded. DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
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- This is a magnum opus! Highly recommended.
- Looking back, I think the presents under the tree, “To: Dad, From: Santa”, in Dad’s distinctively illegible handwriting, may have been his way of telling me.
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- Benchmarks drive the decision making for large modeling efforts. Here are some great thoughts about how to design good benchmarks!
- I wrote some thoughts on how to build good LM benchmarks: ofir.io/How-to-Build...
- That’s right. You might think that all successful CS academics are good at running. But that’s only because the ones who weren’t, have been eaten by bears.
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- Reposted by Charles SuttonWanted to share that Varun Godbole recently released a prompting playbook. The title says prompt tuning, but this is text prompts, not soft prompts. github.com/varungodbole...
- These are great starter packs! If you like these, you should check out this starter pack of DeepMind researchers: go.bsky.app/GZ4hZzu
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- Our team has been working hard to harness the power of AI to make software more secure.✨🔐 Today we are excited to share a major milestone: our AI agent has discovered its first real-world security vulnerability! Read here for more: googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/10/from...
- A black cat crossed my path on Halloween! I think this means I get twice as much good luck!
- I used to have a joke about Heraclitus, but I can’t tell it twice
- Please vote in the Tues Nov 5 US election, if you are eligible!
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