Teaching ALVINN On Demand: Author Likens Himself to a Pre-trained Model
alfcnz · x · 2026-09-24
Kicking off a teaching thread, @alfcnz expands on content previewed in his top tweet, starting with ALVINN — camera image in, steering out, learned by watching a human drive. His meta-observation: he can generate such content on demand with minimal overhead, like a pre-trained model asked to add one more task on top of a solid representation with a minimal topic delta.
Related event: Lecturer Uses AI to Generate ALVINN Course Outline on the Spot(3 posts)→
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