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Eric Jang
Personal blog · evjang.com · on HN as ericjangaiscience
Eric Jang's personal blog at evjang.com covers ai and science. Since 2015, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Just Ask for Generalization”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Personal website and blog of Eric Jang.
Most-linked posts?
- Just Ask for Generalization4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-24
- How can we make robotics more like generative modeling?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-24
- Can LLMs Critique and Iterate on Their Own Outputs?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-27
- Ranking YC W22 companies with a neural net2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-03
- Ultra Instinct2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-28
- To Understand Language Is to Understand Generalization2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-18
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-31
- Motor Physics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-01
- My Internship Experiences at Pixar, Google, and Two Sigma2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-18
What Hacker News says?
Two Sigma is notoriously tightlipped about everything. This guy's short post about interning there in 2015 is probably the most I've even seen about working there: https://evjang.com/2015/08/17/internship-experiences.html
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on “Spf13 is leaving Google”Submitted The Machine Learning Job Market as a story · 265 points
HN discussion> If you want a more technical, serious (better) post with a solution oriented point to make, I’ll refer you to Eric Jang’s post [1] [1] https://evjang.com/2022/07/23/robotics-generative.html
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on “Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs. AI (2024)”Submitted My Internship Experiences at Pixar, Google, and Two Sigma as a story · 138 points
HN discussionNot teleoperating can have certain disadvantages due to mismatches between how humans move vs. how robots move though. See here: https://evjang.com/2024/08/31/motors.html
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on “GEN-0 / Embodied Foundation Models That Scale with Physical Interaction”Submitted To Understand Language Is to Understand Generalization as a story · 91 points
HN discussionEnsoul | Member of Technical Staff | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | $180,000-$300,000 + Equity + Benefits https://ensoul.inc/t/099a40 Ensoul's mission is to accelerate robotics research. We're a team of frontier-lab scientists and roboticists working to accelerate robotics research and unlock The Great Robotics Buildout. Our customer is the robotics researcher. The company page is light on details, so here's a bit mor…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)”Submitted How can we make robotics more like generative modeling? as a story · 61 points
HN discussionThat part on providing the opportunity to check its answers is called reflexion and has been shown to significantly improve accuracy and reliability of LLM responses. Very cool. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11366 https://evjang.com/2023/03/26/self-reflection.html
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on “Defamed by ChatGPT: Law professor libeled from whole cloth”Submitted Just Ask for Generalization as a story · 46 points
HN discussionThere are some robotics researchers trying to frame robotics tasks as sequences of action and sensor tokens, giving the model all the data collected by the robot and the actions taken by the robot, so that the model can learn to predict the action tokens based on sensor info. Here's a blog post from a researcher in this field reviewing a relevant paper: https://evjang.com/2023/06/22/robocat.html
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on “Ask HN: If we train an LLM with “data” instead of “language” tokens”Submitted Just Ask for Generalization (2021) as a story · 38 points
HN discussionCan’t have a list like this and miss Eric Jang’s blog: https://evjang.com/
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on “Ask HN: Which are your favourite machine learning blogs?”Submitted Ranking YC W22 companies with a neural net as a story · 16 points
HN discussionhttps://evjang.com/ I write about Machine Learning and Robotics
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted How Can We Make Robotics More Like Generative Modeling? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted All Roads Lead to Robotics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding and Implementing Deepmind's DRAW Model as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smooth Exponentials for Robotics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted To Understand Language Is to Understand Generalization (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted As Rocks May Think as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Motor Physics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haikus about Effective Altruism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can LLMs Critique and Iterate on Their Own Outputs? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Internship Experiences at Pixar, Google, and Two Sigma as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ranking YC companies with a neural net as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leaving Google Brain as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Understand ML Papers Quickly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just Ask for Generalization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generative Adversarial Nets Tutorial in TensorFlow as a story · 2 points
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