Vinicius Hirono
@cghotdog.bsky.social
Msc (🇧🇷) (he/him)
Electrical Engineer
opened the box, couldn't find any rules.
Reassemble by Packing -> Packing by Structure session -> SIGGRAPH 2025
Electrical Engineer
opened the box, couldn't find any rules.
Reassemble by Packing -> Packing by Structure session -> SIGGRAPH 2025
every once in a while I'll be like how do I compile python
December 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
every once in a while I'll be like how do I compile python
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Brains have many pathways / subnetworks but which principles underlie their formation?
In our #NeurIPS paper lead by Jack Cook we identify biologically relevant inductive biases that create pathways in brain-like Mixture-of-Experts models🧵
#neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813
In our #NeurIPS paper lead by Jack Cook we identify biologically relevant inductive biases that create pathways in brain-like Mixture-of-Experts models🧵
#neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Brains have many pathways / subnetworks but which principles underlie their formation?
In our #NeurIPS paper lead by Jack Cook we identify biologically relevant inductive biases that create pathways in brain-like Mixture-of-Experts models🧵
#neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813
In our #NeurIPS paper lead by Jack Cook we identify biologically relevant inductive biases that create pathways in brain-like Mixture-of-Experts models🧵
#neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813
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look i wasn't gonna say anything but when you hear "10 years in the making" from a game by jonathan blow just know that a game never takes 10 years because of good employee relationships and clear leadership direction
December 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
look i wasn't gonna say anything but when you hear "10 years in the making" from a game by jonathan blow just know that a game never takes 10 years because of good employee relationships and clear leadership direction
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Inside this article that @erininthemorning.com posted is this little gem of data:
Puberty suppression nearly halved the rate of suicidality in trans youth who had access to it.
Trans youth deserve better than bans from treatment that works!
Puberty suppression nearly halved the rate of suicidality in trans youth who had access to it.
Trans youth deserve better than bans from treatment that works!
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Inside this article that @erininthemorning.com posted is this little gem of data:
Puberty suppression nearly halved the rate of suicidality in trans youth who had access to it.
Trans youth deserve better than bans from treatment that works!
Puberty suppression nearly halved the rate of suicidality in trans youth who had access to it.
Trans youth deserve better than bans from treatment that works!
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Have you heard about the Night Science Podcast, where we talk about the actual creative process of doing science? We explore this with discussions with brilliant scientists & also philosophers and artists, to figure out the tricks of the creative scientific trade.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
August 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Have you heard about the Night Science Podcast, where we talk about the actual creative process of doing science? We explore this with discussions with brilliant scientists & also philosophers and artists, to figure out the tricks of the creative scientific trade.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 417 - November 15th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 417 - November 15th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...
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Also “the current system works badly“ is not actually an answer to “how would an alternative system work AT ALL”
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Also “the current system works badly“ is not actually an answer to “how would an alternative system work AT ALL”
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Still a couple of days to apply to the ELLIS PhD program, DL Oct 31, 2025: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... I am especially looking for students interested in developing new approaches for distribution shifts in my new ERC AdG www.ellisinstitute.fi/a-revolution... but also other topics, see kaski-lab.com
ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025
A virtual info session for prospective PhD candidates will be held on October 1st with information about the whole PhD program, the call for applications, application materials, and timeline.
ellis.eu
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Still a couple of days to apply to the ELLIS PhD program, DL Oct 31, 2025: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... I am especially looking for students interested in developing new approaches for distribution shifts in my new ERC AdG www.ellisinstitute.fi/a-revolution... but also other topics, see kaski-lab.com
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y'ever see my blog post about Max Payne 2's character shadows? got some good Remedy dev scoops in there
www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-m...
www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-m...
July 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
y'ever see my blog post about Max Payne 2's character shadows? got some good Remedy dev scoops in there
www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-m...
www.joewintergreen.com/dev-scoops-m...
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If you're a student in need of a personal website (and if you're doing research, yes, you need a website!), I keep a list of nice examples here, most of which are reusable: www.are.na/maria-antoni...
For example, I just spotted this beautiful website by Catherine Yeh: github.com/catherinesye...
For example, I just spotted this beautiful website by Catherine Yeh: github.com/catherinesye...
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If you're a student in need of a personal website (and if you're doing research, yes, you need a website!), I keep a list of nice examples here, most of which are reusable: www.are.na/maria-antoni...
For example, I just spotted this beautiful website by Catherine Yeh: github.com/catherinesye...
For example, I just spotted this beautiful website by Catherine Yeh: github.com/catherinesye...
a good test to see if you really learned a subject is when you start constantly spotting the dodgy stuff AI writes about it (at least in geometry processing and until they give it a cortex).
October 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
a good test to see if you really learned a subject is when you start constantly spotting the dodgy stuff AI writes about it (at least in geometry processing and until they give it a cortex).
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The 2nd Human-inspired Computer Vision (HiCV) Workshop will take place on Oct 20, 2025, in conjunction with @iccv.bsky.social!
✨ 25 contributions (oral & poster)
🎤 Keynotes: @vmurino.bsky.social, @phillipisola.bsky.social, Massimiliano Mancini, Yen-Ling Kuo
📘 Special Issue on IJCV (Springer)
✨ 25 contributions (oral & poster)
🎤 Keynotes: @vmurino.bsky.social, @phillipisola.bsky.social, Massimiliano Mancini, Yen-Ling Kuo
📘 Special Issue on IJCV (Springer)
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The 2nd Human-inspired Computer Vision (HiCV) Workshop will take place on Oct 20, 2025, in conjunction with @iccv.bsky.social!
✨ 25 contributions (oral & poster)
🎤 Keynotes: @vmurino.bsky.social, @phillipisola.bsky.social, Massimiliano Mancini, Yen-Ling Kuo
📘 Special Issue on IJCV (Springer)
✨ 25 contributions (oral & poster)
🎤 Keynotes: @vmurino.bsky.social, @phillipisola.bsky.social, Massimiliano Mancini, Yen-Ling Kuo
📘 Special Issue on IJCV (Springer)
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Excellent funding opportunity: $100k/year for two years for a postdoc position in Montreal. Apply if you're interested in joining Montreal's thriving #NeuroAI ecosystem.
🔷 Launch of the IVADO 2026 Postdoctoral Research Funding Program for outstanding national and international postdoctoral researchers.
More info: ivado.ca/en/scholarsh...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #R3AI #Funding #Postdoc
More info: ivado.ca/en/scholarsh...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #R3AI #Funding #Postdoc
October 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Excellent funding opportunity: $100k/year for two years for a postdoc position in Montreal. Apply if you're interested in joining Montreal's thriving #NeuroAI ecosystem.
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If you need to quickly setup a C++ geometry processing project mixing existing libs (polyscope, eigen, DGtal, cgal, geometry-central, libigl, directional…). I’m sharing with you my cmake recipes
github.com/dcoeurjo/Geo...
github.com/dcoeurjo/Geo...
GitHub - dcoeurjo/GeometryProcessing-cmake-recipes: CPM / cmake recipes for geometry processing stuff
CPM / cmake recipes for geometry processing stuff. Contribute to dcoeurjo/GeometryProcessing-cmake-recipes development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:51 AM
If you need to quickly setup a C++ geometry processing project mixing existing libs (polyscope, eigen, DGtal, cgal, geometry-central, libigl, directional…). I’m sharing with you my cmake recipes
github.com/dcoeurjo/Geo...
github.com/dcoeurjo/Geo...
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Computing the exact bijection of the optimal transport (OT) problem between very large point sets is completely untractable…
In our SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 paper: “BSP-OT: Sparse transport plans between discrete measures in log-linear time” we get one with typically 1% of error in a few seconds on CPU!
In our SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 paper: “BSP-OT: Sparse transport plans between discrete measures in log-linear time” we get one with typically 1% of error in a few seconds on CPU!
October 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Computing the exact bijection of the optimal transport (OT) problem between very large point sets is completely untractable…
In our SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 paper: “BSP-OT: Sparse transport plans between discrete measures in log-linear time” we get one with typically 1% of error in a few seconds on CPU!
In our SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 paper: “BSP-OT: Sparse transport plans between discrete measures in log-linear time” we get one with typically 1% of error in a few seconds on CPU!
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📜 New SIGGRAPH 2025 paper 🎉
❔How to compute bounding volumes for procedural Signed Distance Fields (SDFs)? This is not so trivial!
💡We propose a simple method called Sphere Carving. It extracts (convex) bounding volumes around SDFs, requires very few evaluations, and is GPU compatible.
❔How to compute bounding volumes for procedural Signed Distance Fields (SDFs)? This is not so trivial!
💡We propose a simple method called Sphere Carving. It extracts (convex) bounding volumes around SDFs, requires very few evaluations, and is GPU compatible.
August 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
📜 New SIGGRAPH 2025 paper 🎉
❔How to compute bounding volumes for procedural Signed Distance Fields (SDFs)? This is not so trivial!
💡We propose a simple method called Sphere Carving. It extracts (convex) bounding volumes around SDFs, requires very few evaluations, and is GPU compatible.
❔How to compute bounding volumes for procedural Signed Distance Fields (SDFs)? This is not so trivial!
💡We propose a simple method called Sphere Carving. It extracts (convex) bounding volumes around SDFs, requires very few evaluations, and is GPU compatible.
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#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides posted: "Adaptive Voxel-Based Order-Independent Transparency" shipping in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 by Michal Drobot from Activision Central Tech is now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
September 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talks slides posted: "Adaptive Voxel-Based Order-Independent Transparency" shipping in the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 by Michal Drobot from Activision Central Tech is now online: advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....
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Join us tomorrow (9/19) at noon by Zoom for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
MIT Consciousness Club
The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...
sites.google.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Join us tomorrow (9/19) at noon by Zoom for the first seminar of the MIT Consciousness Club
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
how many fun facts does a year produce
August 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
how many fun facts does a year produce
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1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
🧠📈 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
🧠📈 🧪
Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors
Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...
www.biorxiv.org
July 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
🧠📈 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.
But...
🧠📈 🧪
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𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (mostly cortex)
Can someone recommend a recent review that is *assessible* to beginning PhD students. More/somewhat mathematical is fine. thanks
#neuroskyence
Can someone recommend a recent review that is *assessible* to beginning PhD students. More/somewhat mathematical is fine. thanks
#neuroskyence
July 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (mostly cortex)
Can someone recommend a recent review that is *assessible* to beginning PhD students. More/somewhat mathematical is fine. thanks
#neuroskyence
Can someone recommend a recent review that is *assessible* to beginning PhD students. More/somewhat mathematical is fine. thanks
#neuroskyence
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CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost.
cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪
cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪
June 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost.
cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪
cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪
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Numerosity coding in the brain: from early visual processing to abstract representations
doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
#neuroscience
doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
#neuroscience
Numerosity coding in the brain: from early visual processing to abstract representations
Abstract. Numerosity estimation refers to the ability to perceive and estimate quantities without explicit counting, a skill crucial for both human and ani
doi.org
July 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Numerosity coding in the brain: from early visual processing to abstract representations
doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
#neuroscience
doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
#neuroscience
Today we thank Roberta Williams for licencing F.E.A.R for a Brazilian gaming magazine that sold the game's CD for less than pennies and making a lot of broke kids happy.
July 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Today we thank Roberta Williams for licencing F.E.A.R for a Brazilian gaming magazine that sold the game's CD for less than pennies and making a lot of broke kids happy.