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Big update from The Workshop on Computer Vision For Mixed Reality @ CVPR 2025: 📝 Papers and schedule are now up! Our Speakers: Richard Newcombe (Meta) Anjul Patney (NVIDIA) Rana Hanocka (UChicago) Laura Leal-Taixe ‪(NVIDIA) Margarita Grinvald (Meta) 📅 June 11, 8AM 📍Room 109. cv4mr.github.io

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ChatGPT voice mode shipped an update which makes its conversational agent sound a little less chipper. They added some mumbling, artificial stops and overall reduced the vocal fry. Noble effort for sure, but now it just sounds like even my computer is bored with my bullshit. 6/10

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RIP Bill Atkinson. A lot of things in computing "Would've Happened Anyway", not Atkinson's work. Hypercard propelled interactive computing and games like nothing in its' generation. Thank you for everything. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_At...

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Building my CVPR schedule. Wanna grab a coffee? DMs open.

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in Nashville next week. whomst

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First time I’m old enough to understand a new Pulp album (yes, it’s out today)

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PSA: If you're a student working on Computer Vision with Mixed Reality applications, are in the Nashville area, but can't afford @cvprconference.bsky.social , my DMs are open. We will sponsor one student for a conference and one for the CV4MR workshop.

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As my partner observed, it’s a small miracle that !!! (the band) never got too big to shun small clubs, so we got to see them a lot in NYC. Still. I just learned that FEELGOOD HIT OF THE FALL, the 2000 banger that made me fall for them, was never released with any label. youtu.be/b8VFfOXji48?...

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While doing research, I found a paper titled: "The Complex Refractive Index of Water". Okay, that's a title that picked my interest. Turns out the index of refraction of water has a non-null imaginary component, altough it can be neglected in the visible range (pfew). www.philiplaven.com/p20.html

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Big update from The Workshop on Computer Vision For Mixed Reality @ CVPR 2025: 📝 Papers and schedule are now up! Our Speakers: Richard Newcombe (Meta) Anjul Patney (NVIDIA) Rana Hanocka (UChicago) Laura Leal-Taixe ‪(NVIDIA) Margarita Grinvald (Meta) 📅 June 11, 8AM 📍Room 109. cv4mr.github.io

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Risky post! (This is great, fun to read and the frustrated tone throughout really does capture how it feels sometimes to be an experienced programmer trying to argue that "LLMs are actually really useful" in many corners of the internet)

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If you’ve followed me on other platforms ( 🤢 ) you might know I’ve spent the last few years doing computational cinema / edit understanding. I’m happy to say we’ve got the first public live narrative search engine for film and tv! It’s early days. But check it out! ozu.ai

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Memorial day post: Thank you, and sorry this is how it has to be

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I probably should have done this many years ago, but I finally got around to adding some useful debug features to my old Shadows sample. You can now "freeze" the cascades and zoom out, and draw them to see what they look like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D4A... github.com/TheRealMJP/S...

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Planning my CVPR schedule. DMs open if you want to meet for coffee ✌️

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I don't quite know how to talk about what's happened yesterday in DC, and broadly speaking, quite regularly now - and how it pertains to me being who I am and where I'm from. I'd prefer if I didn't have to, tbqh, but that is appearing to be less of an option.

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A note on the discourse. The murder of 2 Israeli embassy workers is now widely addressed as ‘Antisemitic’. Anyone following the discourse will see this is a new development, as many previous violent near-misses were regarded as ‘totally not Antisemitic; something else entirely’. Makes ya think.

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I stand (sit) behind this: alecjacobson.com/weblog/siggr... I will also warn Israeli potential attendants (meaning any civilian connection to Israel, like familial relations, loose as it may be) risk getting kidnapped or worse. Yes, even if you travel with a foreign passport, you may be targeted,

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The branch prediction + mixing of privileged/non-privileged programs keeps turning up exploitability. x86 isn't uniquely vulnerable in principle, but the low core count sure helps. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

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Found my mom’s only online copy of her dissertation, “Computer Reconstruction of Bodies Bounded by Quadric Surfaces from a Set of Imperfect Projections”, on a .mil website, and realized the industry is still improving on solutions she pioneered. Happy Mothers’ day. apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA...

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...gotta say, didn't expect the selection of the new Pope to align entirely with eigenvector centrality among the Cardinals...

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Make C++ memory safe by adding spring-loaded RAM that pops out as soon as an exception is raised

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Worth a read: "How do I become a graphics programmer? - A small guide from the AMD Game Engineering team": gpuopen.com/learn/how_do...

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Bicep tattoo with my mom’s most cited paper

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Microsoft is bringing back the "Office Startup Assistant": loading the Office .dlls at Windows launch. Reminder: Microsoft Office — and Windows, really — are only successful because Charles Simonyi made it a real-time system - in 1981, on 128KB of RAM and no GPU. www.pcworld.com/article/2651...

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3 Reports of note regarding Antisemitism were released in the past week. I learned a lot reading them. TAU 2024 Worldwide Antisemitism english.tau.ac.il/sites/defaul... ADL 2024 Antisemitic Incident Report www.adl.org/resources/re... Harvard Antisemitism report www.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...