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    Jingren Xu

    Jingren Xu

    PhD student in Robotics

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    Inspiring blogs from well-known researchers

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    Published: January 01, 2021

    1. An Opinionated Guide to ML Research from John Schulman
    2. 初探计算机视觉的三个源头、兼谈人工智能(2016年11月)
    3. 文章千古事,得失寸心知(2017年1月)
    4. 浅谈人工智能:现状、任务、构架与统一(2017年11月)
    5. Inspiring blogs from Song-chun Zhu
    6. Interesting bio from top motion planning researcher Steven M. LaValle

    To be continued…

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