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Computer Vision/Machine Learning research Imagine/LIGM, École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées @ecoledesponts.bsky.social Music & overall happiness 🌳🪻 Born well below 350ppm 📍Paris 🔗 https://davidpicard.github.io/
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Come work with us on tslearn in beautiful Rennes! (deadline for application is soon!) jobs.inria.fr/public/class...

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The current situation in the US is a unique opportunity for Europe to reverse decades of brain drain. It would be wise of European leaders to seize this moment and invest accordingly.

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It was a bit spooky in the forest this morning. Can you hear the crows?

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Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

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I have a pretty cool paper on text-to-image generation that is coming soon to arxiv. I'm not sure exactly when, but I'm super excited! This is such a game changer!

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Daily reminder of who Musk is:

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The blue tits (mésange bleue) are hungry! They ate all the sunflower seeds and are now attacking the peanuts.

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We wrote a paper about why such practices are not only pseudoscientific and unethical, but should also pay off financially on a par with consulting tarot cards: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

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We are hiring, also in my team!

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Petit rappel, pour les concours la liste des auditionnés est publiée en quasi temps-réel à la fin des JAD sur le site de la C3N. Ici, les auditionné(e)s ("admis à poursuivre") en CR et DR en section 07 : c3n-cn.fr/2025/01/31/c...

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One important thing to remember about the Nazis is that they lost

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Conference organizers should honestly consider relocating to more science-friendly places

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Réveiller l’Europe. Maintenant.

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At this point, I think it's safe to say Trump is a Russian asset working for Putin and against the American people.

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Just realized I've written "we": by "we", of course I mean @nicolasdufour.bsky.social He's the one who did all the training, code and runs, all by himself. He'll be on the job market not so long in the future. Probably one of the most knowledgeable person on image generative models.

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Weights for CAD are finally available. It's one of the smallest diffusion models on the market, achieving performance close to SD and Pixart, featuring a Perceiver-like architecture. We leverage our coherence aware training to improve the textual understanding

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A few pictures of a small expo about the KM3NeT collaboration. It's really nice even if I don't understand 10% of what's presented 😅

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The rendering equation is the fundamental recursive integral equation of light transport proposed by Kajiya in 1986, at the heart of (ray) path-tracing and particle tracing. Numerous sampling methods have been proposed to solve it numerically. buff.ly/4i5laYT

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