Sign says "Big John's Moving" in all caps in a font that looks like the Chicago font common on Macs in the early 1990s.

I love this sign! I'm guessing it was designed in MacWrite in 1993?

Or, one could stop to consider that this is a really bad idea?

Wow, nice! Getting closer to an EGOT!

NSF CISE Career Workshop - Noah Snavely (May 18, 2012) YouTube video by Connection One

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...

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.

Interesting idea! The upside is that this would force some folks to come up with a set of creative pseudonyms and fake personae. Like "Virgil T. Vision-pants", etc.

I did hear that ECCV has fewer submissions than the CVPRs of the world (though I don't have hard data on that). And it still seems like the AC interface is slower than my old Atari 8-bit BASIC programs.

Does anyone have any tips for making OpenReview less agonizingly slow?

Yes, very fun to get mocked on a 20 year old social network for comparing a 5 year old social network to a 40+ year old one! Reminds me of getting absolutely roasted on alt.tv.simpsons.

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?

I should clarify that I have a lot of respect for punctuation freaks 🙂

Interesting! I like that. I'm talking about more the classic textbook use of en dash, like 1977–81 or New York–London flight or whatever, where you'd have to be a real punctuation freak to use it in real life (but AI does it all the time).

An en dash seems to be a more reliable AI tell than an em dash.

Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678 arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.

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...

With Professor Shaw as the proto-Henry Jones Sr.

Is this the link? It was cut off for me.

nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026...

Excerpt from Perec's Life a User's Manual: Professor Shaw did of course know Jean-Baptiste Rousseau's catalogue, of which the original was inset in his Quarli, and Maurice de Saxe's letter. But he didn't know Beccaria's letter: it made him jump for joy, for the description "sigillated earthenware vase" was, finally, support for the theory he'd always held, but never dared to publish: the Vase in which Joseph of Arimathæa had gathered the Blood of Christ, on the evening of the Passion, had no reason to be made of gold, brass, or bronze, even less cause to be carved from a single emerald stone, but was, quite plainly, earthenware: an ordinary piece of pottery Joseph had bought at the market before going to wash the Wounds of his Saviour. In his enthusiasm Shaw wanted to edit and publish Beccaria's letter, and Sherwood had all the trouble in the world to persuade him not to, promising him he would have the material for an even more sensational article when they found the Vase!

Life: A User's Manual (Perec 1978) prefugured the "That's the cup of a carpenter" scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

And the Pima Air and Space Museum is also great: maps.app.goo.gl/BdPS9H1Xn6w1...

I also liked Karichimaka which is a bit closer:

maps.app.goo.gl/b9wLhe7vhAAU...

I really liked Amelia's restaurant when I last in Tucson, though it's a little far from the conference

maps.app.goo.gl/3kGxza526ndg...

I'm very curious about this place and will try to check it out next time I'm around: maps.app.goo.gl/cwNcxgPxyzjx...

Hiking, Mexican food, stargazing are all good activities. The Marriott Starr Pass is close to Saguaro National Park West, and lots of other great hiking. It's also close to the Desert Museum, which is really nice.

ZipMap: Linear-Time Stateful 3D Reconstruction with Test-Time Training

@haian-jin.bsky.social, Rundi Wu, Tianyuan Zhang, Ruiqi Gao, @jonbarron.bsky.social, @snavely.bsky.social, @holynski.bsky.social

tl;dr: another(?) TTT+VGGT

arxiv.org/abs/2603.04385

Attention-grabbing idea for an academic paper:

Somehow work your personal phone number into the title, like those old LifeLock ads featuring the CEO's social security number.

I bet this kind of stunt would garner attention, but I haven't figured how to work it naturally into a CVPR paper.

I thought Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie was a fantastic comedy film! I went in knowing nothing about the premise and had a great time. I have no idea how they filmed parts of it, especially on a budget of just $2M. A nice time in the theater.

If you are attending @wacvconference.bsky.social in Tucson next month and stopping in Phoenix, I highly recommend checking out Organ Stop Pizza -- the most fun restaurant I've ever been to. Home of the "world's largest Wurlitzer theater organ" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_S...

Nice lighting!

That said, I don't actually mind "the supplemental". It sounds okay to my ear!