Along with Jeff Dean also Oriol Vinyals and Quoc V. Le are leaving Google!
Evangelos Kazakos
@ekazakos.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher @ CIIRC, CTU, Prague working in vision & language. Also robotics noob. PhD from University of Bristol. Ex. Samsung Research (SAIC-C). I love coffee and plants. And socks. 𖤓꩜𓆉𓃰𖤐 https://ekazakos.github.io/
🏹 Job alert: Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Reinforcement Learning and Human‑AI Hybrid Systems 📍 Berlin 🇩🇪 ⏰ Apply by 27 August 🔗 https://cockpit.as-mediendesign.de/job/128075
Our #ECCV2026 Whareformer paper tackles long-term object tracking in Egocentric videos 🎓https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08537 see Dima's thread below 🔽 joint work w Jacob Chalk, @saptarshisinha.bsky.social @dimadamen.bsky.social from Bristol & @skamalas.bsky.social from @naverlabseurope.bsky.social
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SS13853 CEREBRIS Research Associate (Biomechanical Motion Analysis & Machine Vision) - Jobs at Bath
CEREBRIS Research Associate (Biomechanical Motion Analysis & Machine Vision)
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tenuretracker.info@tenuretracker.bsky.social · yesterdayUniversity of Bath (@uniofbath.bsky.social) is hiring: CEREBRIS Research Associate (Biomechanical Motion Analysis & Machine Vision) #postdoc #biomechanics #computervision
🏹 Job alert: Machine Learning Research Intern - Computer science, machine learning/AI, data science, research at G-Research 📍 London 🇬🇧 ⏰ 30 April 2027 🔗 https://www.gresearch.com/vacancies/machine-learning-research-internship/
Quant Research Internship | G-Research
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🚨 Travel grant application deadline on the 8th of August: If you have trouble securing travel funding via your institution, check out our travel grant! For more details, visit: www.gcpr-vmv.de/year/2026/pa... #GCPR2026 #ComputerVision #MachineLearning
GCPR VMVGCPR VMV (Travel Grants)
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13/ Tim Rocktaschel: math isn't just proving inherited theorems, but inventing the concepts and conjectures that make new progress possible. https://x.com/_rockt/status/2084413089298968756
Today's great news..." #Solar is poised to overtake #coal as China’s largest source of installed power capacity this year, as Beijing steps up its green transition with a renewed emphasis on efficiency, quality and orderly growth over sheer scale." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
China’s solar surge nears milestone – even as Beijing hits brakes on sheer scale
Coal capacity is projected to lose its long-held crown this year, despite a pivot from raw solar panel expansion to quality.
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We now have an MTEB account that posts about new embedding & related models! Give them a follow to stay up-to-date on the latest releases.
MTEB@mteb.org · 2d agoNew on MTEB: hotchpotch/bekko-embedding-v1-a8m is mmBERT-small with its 22 layers pruned to 4 — active parameters cut from 42M to 7.7M, vocabulary left intact. It scores 56.73 on MTEB(Multilingual, v2), against 47.21 for a static model of the same total size.
We're hiring a Head of People to help us double our headcount this year! You'll own recruiting, HR, and events and lead a growing team as we scale from ~30 to ~70 people.
MiniMax H3: a 30B omni-modal LLM inputs: text, image, audio, video outputs: text, audio, video Note that only one model here is open weights, the H3-Context-IR component is critical yet API-only. Less critical H3-Regenerate-2K is also closed huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Mi...
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Fine-tuning EO foundation models is expensive at training and inference. Existing methods address one but not both. Our ECCV 2026 paper SIMPLER addresses both simultaneously. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2603.19873 #ECCV2026
We just released our #ECCV2026 paper on Model Merging for Computer Vision 🎓 arxiv.org/abs/2604.12935 Joint work w @pdejorge.bsky.social Cesar De Souza @bjoernmichele.bsky.social @mbsariyildiz.bsky.social @weinzaepfelp.bsky.social Florent Perronnin & @skamalas.bsky.social See Pau's thread below 🔽
Qwen just announced Qwen3.8-27B along with Qwen3.8-Max! 🔥 Qwen3.8-27B will run locally on 17GB RAM/VRAM setups and is expected to be the best performing model for its size.
I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
South-eastern Europe faces heatwave energy crunch as Romania detonates Danube rock to increase water flow – Europe live
Explosives used to move a large rock and let more water flow to cool nuclear power plant
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"In Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli teenagers recently banged on the door of the headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church and asked if there were Christians inside it. They wanted to spit at them.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Spitting Attacks Show Rise of Anti-Christian Hate in Israel
Negative attitudes toward Christianity are becoming more common among young Israelis.
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🔹 AI-generated media, ‘deepfakes’ must be clearly labelled as such 🔸Chatbots and virtual agents must explicitly state they aren't human 🔹You must be told when AI is actively analysing you, like biometrics, emotion tracking → link.europa.eu/gTvhRX
As of today, the use of AI becomes more transparent in the EU. Here’s how EU law makes sure AI works for you, in full openness ↓
People are wondering: How can a Chinese AI lab rent 20,000 Nvidia GPUs from Alibaba to train its models despite U.S. export restrictions? Answer: Malaysia, which has excess power capacity. Chinese AI labs do not need to train their models inside China.
ByteDance to Build AI Data Center in Malaysia to Circumvent US Chip Restrictions
ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of video platform TikTok, is building computing power in Malaysia using Nvidia's cutting-edge chips.
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⏰ EXTENDED: WACV 2027 workshop proposal deadline is now Aug 8, 11:59 PM AoE. Have a niche topic or community to convene at Disney Springs in January? This is the window. Submit: openreview.net/group?id=the... #WACV2027 #ComputerVision
WACV 2027 Workshop Proposals
Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for WACV 2027 Workshop Proposals
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"No," he said, "millions. One Jewish life, it's 10 million [Palestinians]." Challenged on the racism of his statement, he did not deny it. "Yes, I know," he replied. "But this is the truth, because God chose us [and] because of this you are jealous." This man is a lawyer. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge
Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.
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ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
I have a project for this AI for science postdoc application: schmidtfellows.utoronto.ca To work on videos of migrating fish (eg salmon), for classification, segmentation, uncertainty quantification. Don’t need to be AI expert, but demonstrate high potential. Reach out if interested.
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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Update: it's fixed now, all 3 links consistently say that the full paper deadline is the 25th of September.
Evangelos Kazakos@ekazakos.bsky.social · 7d ago@iclr-conf.bsky.social There is a discrepancy/ ambiguity regarding the paper submission deadline. iclr.cc/Conferences/... and iclr.cc/Conferences/... say 25th of September while iclr.cc/Conferences/... says 16th of September. A clarification would be highly appreciated! 🙏
avocados are woke, cancel them
Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
I have to admit that the anti-AI side is making genuinely funny memes
Dr Neil & Mr Price@drneil.bsky.social · 7d agoIt’s really starting to grind me down
