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Amy Tabb

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Research scientist, computer vision and robotics for agriculture. she/her. Largely not checking this account or posting about work at the moment. https://amytabb.com/ Close-ish to Washington, D.C., USA.

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hello computer vision people! I've been over at Mastodon for 2 years, and felt out of the loop -- happy to see the crowd over here. Thanks folks for the starter packs!

Photo: Inca the Rottweiler at home.
Nikon z6ii, f/1.8, 1/250s, ISO 2000, 50mm, handheld.

A Rottweiler dog lies on a floor mattress, she looks at the camera out of one eye and has the other closed, like she is winking.

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · 24d

[reading rec] The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson, 2012. ISBN 978-0812992793.

Set in N Korea, an orphan -- who may not be an orphan! -- makes his way in a difficult world. Themes of propaganda and creation of conflicting constraints on thinking & behavior. Reality and identity.

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · Jun 16

Secret to a successful research career:
1. Get super lucky and have the stars align for your first year
2. Repeat ~40 times
3. Retire

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Jun 10

There's a playlist to start each chapter.

I recently started studying piano again w/ a teacher, so the book matched my interests perfectly at the moment. 2/2

Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Jun 10

[reading rec] Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by pianist Jeremy Denk (2022). ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0812995985
I saw Denk perform, of all places, Purdue U, w Joshua Bell (violin). The book is fantastic -- mix of autobiography, musical analysis, piano playing. 1/

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · May 10

I finished reading Enriquez's _A Sunny Place for Shady People_. I had a tough time getting into the earlier stories in the collection but loved the later ones. Next, I am looking for the Enriquez's other short story collection, _The Dangers of Smoking in Bed_.

Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Apr 20

I'm currently reading

Enriquez's _A Sunny Place for Shady People_, trans. McDowell.

Original is _Un lugar soleado para gente sombría_.

Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Apr 29

This has been a thing for a very long time, not my favorite thing, but when I am at an entomology talk (it happens), I can understand these types of talks better than an in-depth styled talk.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Apr 28

‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office

SACRAMENTO, CA—Believing that he was establishing a firm line between who he was as a person and what he did for a living, local man Jordan Wheeler, an employee of Creighton Industries who will ultima...

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Apr 22

My wonderfully weird children are back in school as of today, ahhhh quiet again 🫠

Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Apr 20

I'm currently reading

Enriquez's _A Sunny Place for Shady People_, trans. McDowell.

Original is _Un lugar soleado para gente sombría_.

Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Apr 20

[reading rec] Mariana Enriquez, _Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories_, trans. from Spanish by Megan McDowell.

Original is _Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego_, 2016.

Literary fiction / horror stories that I still think about ... despite reading this collection a few years ago.

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Yisong Yue @yisongyue.bsky.social · Apr 19

One of my PhD students got their visa revoked. I know of other cases amongst my AI colleagues. This is not what investing in US leadership in AI looks like.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

US revokes nearly 1,500 student visas: Who are the targets?

Hundreds of students have had their visas cancelled and find themselves in limbo.

www.aljazeera.com

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Apr 14

I've looked for other recordings with a similar sound -- and have not found one except for Stabat Mater. I have a lot of Renaissance stuff with men covering all the parts, countertenors & counter sopranos (Hillard ensemble, Cinquento, Beauty Farm, etc.), or women in soprano & men below. hmmm

Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Apr 13

Yes, the lines cross, and there's a lot of overlap in range between the two voices. It is now that I realize what your original post meant. (apologies)

Score (?? how authoritative this is) for the nitty gritty.

www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/...

www.cpdl.org

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Apr 13

Oh, I love this piece! I sang it in undergrad (I went to a women's college) -- we had women divided into altos and sopranos.

When I hear it, I am hearing the countertenor (Andreas Scholl ) in the alto, and the soprano (Barbara Bonney) in the higher soprano part.

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · Apr 11

VSLAM-LAB: A Comprehensive Framework for Visual SLAM Methods and Datasets

Alejandro Fontan, Tobias Fischer, Javier Civera, Michael Milford

tl;dr:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.04457

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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · Apr 2

hey would you look at the time

Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · Jan 31

I feel crazy asking friends “hey anyone else expecting major supply chain disruptions in 2-3 months?”

but like

I’ve seen this movie before

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Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social · Apr 1

The AI for Science summer school, coorganized by CNRS and U of Chicago will be in Paris, June 30th to july 4th, register asap if you want attend!
datascience.uchicago.edu/events/ai-sc...

AI+Science Summer School 2025 – DSI arrow-right-large arrow-left-smallarrow-right-large-greyarrow-right-large-yellowarrow-right-largearrow-right-long-yellowarrow-right-smallclosefacet-arrow-down...

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Mark Hauser @markhauser.bsky.social · Apr 1

Mrs. Blackbird looking for nesting material.

Have a great day☕🖖

#Amsel #blackbird
📷 🌿 🪶 🐦
#Nikon #Fotografie #naturephotography #photography #birds #wildlife

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Apr 1

One of the perfect da share zone memes 🤌

da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · Mar 30

AWWWWWWW - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKALATEN WATCHIN DA STOCK VALUE TANK FOR ANOTHER SHITY COMPANY AND GIVEN THEM DA TIPS THAT THE RULING CLASS TELLS US TO DO WHEN THERE SQUISHEN US BETWEEN LOW WAGES AND HIGH COST OF LIVING: "AWWWWWW YOUR COMPANYS ALL OUT OF MONEY? HAVE YOU TRIED: SKIP THE LATTE, MAKE A BUDGET, DONT BUY NEW PHONE, GET A SECOND JOB, SKIP MEAL'S, NO MORE DELIVERY FOOD, SET UP A SAVINGS ACCOUNT" - THE AMERICAN RULING CLASS TREATS COMPANYS LIKE THEY SHOULD TREAT PEOPLE AND PEOPLE LIKE THEY SHOULD TREAT COMPANYS, THATS WHY WHEN SHIT GETS BAD THEY THROW THE PEOPLE OUT IN THE STREETS AND TAKE EMERGENCY MEASURES TO MAKE SURE UNPROFTABLE BUSNESSES GET THE MONEY TO KEEP GOING - THE GOVERNMENT KILLS MORE CIVILIANS THAN IT DOES BUSNESSES, SO WHEN YOU FINALY GET MAD ENOUGH TO DO SOMETHING REMEBER AN "APPEAL TO AUTHORITY" AINT GONNA CUT IT CAUSE THEY ALREADY SAID THEY WANT US DEAD - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Teemu Sarapisto @tsarpf.bsky.social · Mar 28

Just received the first volume, and damn, clearly a ton of effort was put into it!

There's a ~90 page intro to "foundations of complexity science" (which is also sold separately).

(The super interesting) papers each have a 5-10 page intro with historical context, and are full of annotations ❤️

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · Mar 31

MP-SfM: Monocular Surface Priors for Robust Structure-from-Motion

Zador Pataki, @pesarlin.bsky.social Johannes L. Schonberger, @marcpollefeys.bsky.social
tl;dr: using monodepth to reconstruct w/o co-visible triplets. Many ablations and details. M3Dv2 FTW
demuc.de/papers/patak...

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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · Mar 21

🔥🔥🔥 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!

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Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Mar 24

Welcome to our world Riona! We lost Inca the Rottweiler at 8 years old about a month ago. It didn't feel right, to be at home with no dog, and I missed inca terribly. We found Riona the Rottweiler at an SPCA and she is a gem.

Nikon z6ii, f/1.8, 1/400s, ISO4000, 50mm, handheld.

A Rottweiler female dog lies on a floor mattress, and looks off camera. She has a crinkly ball at her feet. She has a gray muzzle and looks friendly.

Amy Tabb @atabb.bsky.social · Mar 19

And even if you have burner or wiped devices, get sent back?