Hussein Lezzaik blog

May 17, 2025 Embodied AI: The Next Intelligence Paradigm
May 1, 2025 Bipedal Walking Using RL: Deep Dive with Code
Apr 30, 2025 The Current State of Robot Foundation Models
Apr 27, 2025 Embodied AI: The Data Bottleneck
Apr 24, 2025 π-0.5: A Foundation Model for Robot Manipulation
Apr 17, 2025 Moravecs Paradox: Spelled Out with Code
Apr 13, 2025 The Sim2Real Gap for Robot Locomotion Explained
Apr 13, 2025 Robotic Foundation Models in 2050
Feb 28, 2025 Books
May 31, 2024 Serendipity
Mar 24, 2024 High Quality Tokens Only
Mar 23, 2024 Watch Out for ZIRP Advice
Mar 23, 2024 Where I Get My Best Ideas
Feb 12, 2024 The Trillion Human Civilization
Feb 12, 2024 Social Networks as a Collective Evolutionary Mechanism
Feb 12, 2024 Beyond The Mythical Man Month: Ride or Die Teams O(n^3)
Feb 12, 2024 Competitors are Overrated
Feb 8, 2024 Market Cap as Societal Infrastructure
Perhaps a healthy way of viewing market cap.
Feb 8, 2024 The Power of Compounding
The real meaning of over night success.
Nov 5, 2023 A Transformer City
Cities that transform the world.
Nov 3, 2023 Pursuits on the Order of Decades
Choosing the right loss function for grand life missions.
Aug 7, 2023 Seeing the World in Triangles
Three is a magic number.
Aug 6, 2023 The Bitter Lesson of Everything Else
Existing science is not fully exploited.
Aug 4, 2023 Professionalism
Navigating corporate ladder.
Aug 2, 2023 One Solution to the Innovators Dilemma
A proposal to support innovation at large companies.
Aug 1, 2023 The Talent Shortage Paradox
Colleges aren't efficient at maximizing labor's full potential.
Jul 15, 2023 MicroDSA: Data Structures and Algorithms
A minimal data structures and algorithms reference.
Jul 2, 2023 Questions
Some questions that I find interesting, and might potentially unlock new science.
Jul 1, 2023 Quotes
A compiled list of wisdom from my readings.
Jun 30, 2023 Why Engineers Should Write
Reflections on the upside of writing.
Jun 30, 2023 Primer on Machine Learning Interviews for Software Engineers
A small guide on how to prepate for machine learning interviews for hackers.
Jun 30, 2023 How Onboarding Should Look Like
Empower new joiners to become fully autonomous individual contributors.
Jun 30, 2023 Newtons Third Law++
Applying physic laws to the social sciences.
Jun 30, 2023 Getting Started with Machine Learning for Software Engineers
“…everything became much clearer when I started writing code.”
Jun 27, 2023 Give It Your Best
Theory can only take you so far.
May 6, 2023 Seminal Papers of Deep Learning
A Martian View.
May 2, 2023 Super Intelligence and Market Fluctuations
A Unique Paradigm Shift.
May 2, 2023 AutoGPTs for Every Vertical
Copilot 2.0
Feb 8, 2023 The Startup Manual
A set of notes about startups.
Feb 7, 2023 LLMs for Codebase Assistance
Self-aware GPTs living in codebases, and software that heals itself.
Jan 19, 2023 Speech Computer Interaction (SCI)
New computer interfaces powered by LLMs.
Dec 23, 2022 Getting Started with Jetbot: Navigation Stack
Jetbot for applied machine learning and ROS.
Dec 3, 2022 The Books that Shaped my Career: Part II
Some books I read during college part two.
Dec 2, 2022 Deep Learning for Multi-Robot Motion Planning
My master thesis at the Rainbow team at Inria, France.
Dec 1, 2022 The Future of Search Engines
Forecasting GPTs integration into browsers before ChatGPT existed.
Nov 20, 2022 The Books that Shaped my Career: Part I
Some books I read during college part one.
Nov 14, 2022 Reasons to Join a Startup
A somewhat new grad reflection on joining startups :)
Nov 12, 2022 Growing into a Senior Engineer
A industry perspective on engineering maturity.
Nov 11, 2022 Questions I'm Asking in Machine Learning Interviews
MLOps focused questions to understand ML Systems at prospective companies.
May 8, 2022 Choosing between a PhD in Computer Science and Industry
Sharing the lessons I learned during my masters degree.
Apr 21, 2022 Career in Robotics: Perspective and Reflections
After struggling with ROS, my whole philosophy on robotics engineering became software engineering driven.
Jan 1, 2021 Citizen of the World
The Raymond Reddington of Startups.