The time I Tweeted (in jest) that Bluesky is the new Usenet somehow got me clowned on by the ClassicUsenet subreddit.
www.reddit.com/r/ClassicUse...
At kids' parties a lot of dads go in for a "clap shake" type greeting. Was I supposed to learn how to do this at some point?
With Professor Shaw as the proto-Henry Jones Sr.
An en dash seems to be a more reliable AI tell than an em dash.
Does anyone have any tips for making OpenReview less agonizingly slow?
If you are applying for NSF CAREER, and don't mind watching an ancient 360p video -- I was invited to give a talk on my experience writing one at a CAREER workshop in 2012 and it made its way to YouTube. Someone just reminded me this existed, so I thought I'd share!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezKW...
Life: A User's Manual (Perec 1978) prefugured the "That's the cup of a carpenter" scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
This might be the biggest job in (open) science. Cornell is creating a new non-profit organization to house @arxiv.bsky.social -- and hiring a new person to lead it.
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...
VarSplat: Uncertainty-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting for Robust RGB-D SLAM
Anh Thuan Tran, Jana Kosecka
tl;dr: law of total variance+alpha compositing->per-splat appearance variance->differentiable per-pixel
uncertainty map
arxiv.org/abs/2603.09673
Very excited about @nthngdy.bsky.social's new work! It really gets to the bottom (or top, depends where the head in LMs is 😜) and fundamentals of contemporary LLMs. A real treat of a paper: solid theory, and very cool experiments.
