Amy Tabb

@atabb.bsky.social

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Research scientist, computer vision and robotics for agriculture. she/her. Largely not checking this account or posting about work at the moment. https://amytabb.com/ Close-ish to Washington, D.C., USA.

Cover of Dungeon Crawler Carl, has a man running with a lit stick of dynamite, followed by a cat with a crown on her head.
book cover features the title and a repeating pattern of a man in Renaissance-era clothes sitting at a virginal.
A Rottweiler female dog lies on a floor mattress, and looks off camera. She has a crinkly ball at her feet. She has a gray muzzle and looks friendly.
An edition of Scarlatti, sixty sonatas in 2 volumes, volume 1.
A post-card like image, author Anastasia Gaydaenko, of a woman sitting in a chair. The woman has on a wedding dress and veil, as well as a military jacket and boots, and a flak jacket and firearm next to the chair. She is stitching up a wound on her leg.
A feeder shaped like a sunflower has suet and peanuts in the center. A small woodpecker hangs off the bottom, and a small wren looks down from the top.
A medium-sized bird perched on a piece of dead wood, tan and brown background.
A dairy calf drinking from a bottle. She is enthusiastic and her eyes are big and wide.
A young Ayrshire calf attempts to nurse on a man's shirt. She has big, buggy eyes.
A Rottweiler dog lies on the floor with a quizzical expression on her face, what is going on here? A small rodent is in a similar pose, on a towel on the couch. Both the dog and rodent have mostly black fur.
A medium-sized bird perched on a piece of wood has its beak open, triangular tongue visible.
A Rottweiler dog lies with her jaw on one front leg, she's in a sunbeam and sleeping on a floor mattress.
A large solid-colored guinea pig with protruding eyes rests on a towel.
A small bird in profile among dead stems and a pot. Almost spherical.
Run the simplest experiment first. This is the mistake I make the most often. ML experiments are so easy to mess up you absolutely need to verify at each step that the minimal experiment is working. The minimal experiment is the absolute bare minimum needed to check that either your code works or your idea makes sense. Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s a coherent definition of minimal, it seems to mostly be an aesthetic thing. I’d call it the thing that has the least moving pieces. Since nothing is better than concrete details, let me just list all the ways I’ve done this wrong: I had an RL problem where we had to solve some task where the dynamics were defined by N trajectories. Instead of checking whether I could solve one interesting trajectory perfectly, I kept running the algorithm over all N trajectories. I had a problem that could be run in single or multi-agent mode. Instead of trying to verify correctness of the codebase by running the single-agent version, I jumped right to the multi-agent version. I had a multi-agent problem where I could run it with 100s of agents or just a few. I jumped right to 100s. I’ve done this one three times.
A small bird against a bright sky. clinging onto a feeder shaped like a flower. The bird has a chunk of peanut in its beak.
A large woodpecker in a deciduous tree with no foliage in the winter.
A tri-color guinea pig with cowlicks all over snuggles down in a fleecy bed. There are pieces of grass everywhere.
A large hawk in profile, trying to get comfortable to do some preening. Wings are out, eyes down, it seems unstable.
A rottweiler dog has nose in the air and a person's hand is petting her on the side of the head. Inside.
Looking for a sugar baby to spoil with both money and gift
Skeleton sitting, text is "all computers must do as I say", left flame from skeleton's hand says "stop guessing what I want", right flame says, "do not remind me later."
A tricolor guinea pig on a blanket with a pile of grass in front of him. A hand is petting him from the rear. He is pausing a moment before digging into the grass pile again.
An adjustable-height desk, up higher, with a treadmill on the floor. Three monitors, desktop clutter.
screenshot of SkyFeed, input List set to 24 hours, sort by Creation Date is in ascending order.
So, you’ve made it! The remnants of science twitter have at last begun to coalesce around a new microblogging platformed owned by questionable individuals with inadequate content moderation that groans under the weight of a massive surge in new users. Welcome to Bluesky.
A grayscale image of a guinea pig on a towel, he has cowlicks all over and a quizzical expression.
A small bird perched on some branches, face in three-quarters profile.
A Rottweiler dog lies on a floor mattress, she looks at the camera out of one eye and has the other closed, like she is winking.