Wishing you all a happy Easter !

🔥🔥🔥 CV Folks, I have some news! We're organizing a 1-day meeting in center Paris on June 6th before CVPR called CVPR@Paris (similar as NeurIPS@Paris) 🥐🍾🥖🍷

Registration is open (it's free) with priority given to authors of accepted papers: cvprinparis.github.io/CVPR2025InPa...

Big 🧵👇 with details!

What about decentralized options like @element.io @matrix.org ?

I think I’ve seen this before 🤔

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Jokes apart, LFG

I had found the company on LinkedIn and it seemed quite interesting, but I might have overlooked it. Now since you recommend it so strongly, I just applied 🫡
Their inbox must be full of candidates by now 😂
Innovation in defense is gonna be so important in the next few years for Europe

PhD is weird, isn’t it? It’s both too short and too long at the same time.

Best feature

Macron rallies Europe to back Ukraine following ceasefire talks, Le Monde reports Speaking at a closed-door meeting in Paris on March 11, French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said his country "will reject any form of demilitarisation of Ukraine."

French President Emmanuel Macron urged European and NATO military leaders to develop a concrete plan for "credible security guarantees" for Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.

Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

Introducing DaD (arxiv.org/abs/2503.07347), a pretty cool keypoint detector.
As this will get pretty long, this will be two threads.
The first will go into the RL part, and the second on the emergence and distillation.

Over 30 nations to join Paris talks on Ukraine security Representatives will meet in person and virtually on March 11, coinciding with a meeting between Ukrainian and U.S. officials on the same day in Saudi Arabia.

⚡️Over 30 nations to join Paris talks on Ukraine security.

Representatives will meet in person and virtually on March 11, coinciding with a meeting between Ukrainian and U.S. officials on the same day in Saudi Arabia.

Bluesky isn’t bad but audience is small and quite politically oriented (more than X somehow)

Not CGI

Credit: www.engineai.com.cn

Democrats Are Busy Fighting Over What to Fight Over Progressives want confrontation while moderates fear that will turn off the centrist voters who can put them back in power.

Tragic to say that the Journal headline is not wrong:
Democrats Are Busy Fighting Over What to Fight Over www.wsj.com/politics/ele... via @WSJ

We recently released the code for "Efficient Perspective-Correct 3D Gaussian Splatting Using Hybrid Transparency"

Project Page: fhahlbohm.github.io/htgs/
Code: github.com/nerficg-proj...

They’ll probably need a few years before they can actually produce anything useful with this, and more to create a real production system. But still, that’s impressive

Humanoid robots will be able to run the Beijing half-marathon

What a front cover...

A Waymo vehicle was driving in a 25mph zone in LA when an oncoming car swerved into its lane while speeding up to over 70mph… 3x the speed means 9x the destructive energy.

Waymo vehicle reacted safely.

Source: Dmitri Dolgov (Co-CEO at waymo)

National Parks Had a Record Year. Trump Officials Appear to Want It Kept Quiet. As the administration fires rangers and other workers, an internal memo is directing the National Park Service not to publicize visitors numbers.

National parks had a record number of visits last year. Now, an internal memo is directing the National Park Service not to publicize visitors numbers amid the Trump administration’s mass firings of rangers and other employees.

Bon courage 🫡

Embrace LaTeX warnings—they’re your friend. Pay attention to them!

Bill banning mRNA vaccines in Iowa passes subcommittee A bill banning gene-based vaccines, like some forms of the COVID-19 vaccine, received approval from a Senate subcommittee Monday.

Among all the utterly insane stuff going on, this ranks pretty high on the insane scale. mRNA vaccines are one of the great scientific advances of this century.

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/bill...

Waymo rolling out in Austin. Self driving cars are coming to so many more people this year.

Agree on the issue. Although I’d say:
Point 1- 99% chances
Point 2- unlikely
Point 3- very unlikely

But we never know, somehow reality beats fiction. Scary sh*t.
Europe needs to move faster

Warren Buffett Rebukes Trump’s Tariffs Plan in CBS Interview: ‘Act of War’ The rebuke of President Trump’s tariff plans came just days before sweeping tariffs on Canada and Mexico were expected to go into effect.

Warren Buffett, the famed investor who runs the sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, described tariffs as “an act of war” in an interview with CBS.

Is Bluesky alive?

Guess I can put this away now