Jon Barron

@jon_barron

Principal research scientist at Google DeepMind. Synthesized views are my own.

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Jon Barron
@jon_barron
Aug 31
Here's my talk from the CVPR 2026 "Bitter Lessons" workshop earlier this summer. I've split it up into parts for the sake of discussion. Part 1: in which I wax poetic about my youth and force the audience to look at my dissertation results.
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Jon Barron
@jon_barron
Sep 1
Very cool result
World Labs
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Sep 1
Replying to @theworldlabs
Atlas understands both the spatial structure of the world and how it evolves over time. This lets us turn a handful of ordinary cameras into a "bullet time" multiview capture studio, capturing dynamic moments frozen in time.
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Jon Barron
@jon_barron
Jul 28
Someone please make this journal: - submission has a large fee - a LLM reads the paper and accepts/rejects instantly - the LLM tunes on all accepts ~daily, and measures the info gain from each - fees are paid back to authors proportionally to info gain, minus training costs
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Jon Barron
@jon_barron
Jul 9
Very fun demo cells2pixels.github.io
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Jon Barron
@jon_barron
Jul 7
One issue with the autoregressive video model approach to games: gamedevs tell you to make the first level *last*, because only after the game is done do you know how to best onboard new players. The world model is forced to make the game in exactly the opposite order it should.
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