If you're a fan of both 90s Eurodance and Weird Al-style medleys, you might like Nerdkern's very fun track, "Nonstop Copyright Infringement": youtu.be/wLBHc6DGbZQ?...

Nonstop Copyright Infringement

YouTube video by a gay walrus

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My favorite genre of video game is "repeated sphere".

If you want to hear very pleasantly evocative American music, try the Pastorale from Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story Suite. youtu.be/LbQO393FrvE?...

Louisiana Story Suite: I. Pastoral

YouTube video by Westphalian Symphony Orchestra - Topic

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I'll miss Bill McGlaughlin! His is one of the voices I've heard most in my life, as a fan of Exploring Music. www.wfmt.com/2026/07/24/b...

Bill McGlaughlin, Exploring Music Host and Champion of Classical Music, Dies | WFMT

The Peabody Award-winning musician, educator, composer, conductor, and founding host of WFMT's internationally syndicated radio series leaves behind an extraordinary legacy.

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Sean Bell, Kavita Bala, and I received a SIGGRAPH Test-of-Time Award for our 12-year-old paper, Intrinsic Images in the Wild (IIW -- I like to call it "Double-I Double-U", but that name didn't catch on).

Admission that when I read "ImageSpirit: Verbal Guided Image Parsing" back in 2014, I thought editing images with language was a really silly idea. Now I think this is a brilliant idea that was way ahead of its time! arxiv.org/pdf/1310.4389

Xiangli et al., "Honey, I Shrunk the Arc de Triomphe!" Metric depth estimators aren't actually metric. With curated, scaled data, they can be adapted to be better.

I really like the metric depth prediction problem because it involves fundamental computer vision questions, like How Big is a Thing? and How Far is a Thing?

It's a real honor to receive the Thomas Huang Prize, which memorializes a figure in computer vision who had tremendous impact through his research and mentorship.

#CVPR2026@cvprconference.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The PAMI TC awards are here #CVPR2026. Congratulations to all the winners for your contribution to the research community 🏆

Humans can watch tasks like cooking or assembly and reason about what happened, when, and between which parts. Can LVLMs do the same? We built Flat-Pack Bench to test this – and found there is still a long way to go. Accepted at #CVPR2026! 🎥🪑🧩(1/n)

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?

AZPM@azpm.org · 4mo ago

President Trump threatened to annihilate the Iranian nation if a deal is not reached to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will," Trump posted. For more: www.npr.org/2026/04/07/n...

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...

NSF CISE Career Workshop - Noah Snavely (May 18, 2012)

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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.

Nathan Godey@nthngdy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧵New paper: "Lost in Backpropagation: The LM Head is a Gradient Bottleneck" The output layer of LLMs destroys 95-99% of your training signal during backpropagation, and this significantly slows down pretraining 👇

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

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?

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

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...

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.

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

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...

I found this old bassoon sheet music in storage, and tried to have Gemini scan it to PDF. I think it is getting better with music? But still goes off the rails. (ChatGPT does even worse.)

Noah Snavely@snavely.bsky.social · last yr.

ChatGPT and Gemini both seem to struggle with sheet music. They both insist that this excerpt is in D major (2 sharps), and resist any attempt to tell them that there 3 sharps in the key signature. I think this is really cool and interesting!

The CVPR process seems driven by the goal of extracting 3 reviews for each paper, a goal that seems to lead to a lot of angst. Is there a reason why 3 is a magic number? Why not two, or even one (assuming the quality is high)?

If you are looking for a new podcast to get into, I recommend Topics with Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter. Even though they are comedians, they aren't afraid to dive into some weighty topics! www.earwolf.com/show_archive...

What are some examples of computer vision papers that have attractive system diagrams?

Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory + applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis. Today I want to share two new works on this topic: Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425 Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492 1/9