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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 5d

“it’s October 3rd”

Happy K-Mean Girls Day to those who celebrate

A drawing of two clusters one cluster has a blonde girl with a ponytail in it, and the other cluster has a redhead a blonde and a brunette. This represents the scene and mean girls where Gretchen tells Regina George “you can’t sit with us!”

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Claas Voelcker @cvoelcker.bsky.social · 6d

cvoelcker.de/blog/2025/re...

I finally gave in and made a nice blog post about my most recent paper. This was a surprising amount of work, so please be nice and go read it!

a close up of a sad cat with the words pleeeaasse written below it

ALT: a close up of a sad cat with the words pleeeaasse written below it

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Johan Edstedt @parskatt.bsky.social · 14d

Best illusion I've seen in a while

Flashed Face Distortion Effect

YouTube video by de500ya

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Noa Garcia @noagarciad.bsky.social · 20d

This is the metareview

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Wenzel Jakob @wjakob.bsky.social · Aug 8

How can one reconstruct the complete 3D interior of a wood block using only photos of its surfaces? 🪵
At SIGGRAPH'25 (Thursday!), Maria Larsson will present *Mokume*: a dataset of 190 diverse wood samples and a pipeline that solves this inverse texturing challenge. 🧵👇

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Silvia Sellán @silviasellan.bsky.social · Jul 23

My opinion: let people have fun! Life is too important to be taken seriously

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Silvia Sellán @silviasellan.bsky.social · Jul 23

Congratulations, Claas! This was me with "Massachusetts" a few months ago. It's such a rush

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A nice ground cover @horseherb.bsky.social · Jul 22

These appear to be constructed "wormholes", to go by www.reddit.com/r/googlemaps... . There's a technique to create them, but one person wrote, "I didn’t want the technique to be publicly known and easily accessible, as it is (though minor) a kind of google streetview vandalism."

From the googlemapsshenanigans community on Reddit: The moderators of Internet Roadtrip somehow placed this marker at Inkerman, New Brunswick, Canada, and used it to teleport to Denver and back.

Explore this post and more from the googlemapsshenanigans community

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jul 22

The Internet Roadtrip is now trying to cross Labrador. A 100-foot gap in Street View coverage almost forced them to turn back, but as they approached the break, someone got a friend in Labrador City to drive to the spot IRL and take and upload a panoramic photo to fix it. neal.fun/internet-roa...

Internet Roadtrip

Let's take a streetview roadtrip

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · Jul 22

"Giving pedestrians a 7-second head start at traffic lights is associated with a 33% reduction in total pedestrian injuries—both fatal and non-fatal—at New York City intersections."

New York City intersections see one-third fewer pedestrian injuries with longer head-start intervals

Giving pedestrians a 7-second head start at traffic lights—known as Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPIs)—is associated with a 33% reduction in total pedestrian injuries—both fatal and non-fatal—at New ...

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John Feminella @jxf.me · Jul 22

Asking the OpenAI Whisper audio model to transcribe 30 seconds of silence generates the output "ترجمة نانسي قنقر", which is "translation by Nancy Qanqar".

Nancy Qanqar is a volunteer translator of (among other things) many pirated movies, so that invites an interesting conclusion on data sources.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jul 21

Replication Crisis

xkcd.com/3117/

4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved

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Lionel Lemarié @hikey.org · Jul 19

Got an MRI so I played with some renders of the inside of my melon.
#metalrt #rendering

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Silvia Sellán @silviasellan.bsky.social · Jul 18

Huh, this is interesting...

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Alexander Terenin @avt.im · Jul 17

At ICML, we're presenting a paper on uncertainty-aware surface reconstruction!

Compared to previous approaches, we are able to completely remove the need for recursive linear solves for reconstruction and interpolation, using geometric GP machinery.

Check it out!

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Silvia Sellán @silviasellan.bsky.social · Jul 17

I agree completely!

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Silvia Sellán @silviasellan.bsky.social · Jul 17

(I am not defending this or saying this is ideal, just clarifying)

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Silvia Sellán @silviasellan.bsky.social · Jul 17

From eurips.cc/faq/

Frequently Asked Questions - A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe

A NeurIPS-endorsed conference in Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark

eurips.cc

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Silvia Sellán @silviasellan.bsky.social · Jul 17

“Register” doesn’t mean “present”. The same FAQ says the whole point of it is that people may not want to travel to present in the US: “Many researchers cannot, for a variety of reasons, attend conferences in the Americas. With EurIPS, we aim to give them a home within the NeurIPS family.”

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Silvia Sellán @silviasellan.bsky.social · Jul 16

You misundersestimate them!

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Ana Dodik @geometry.gay · Jul 10

🚨🚨 WiGRAPH CONFERENCE COFFEE @ SIGGRAPH '25 🚨🚨

Sign up now to be randomly matched with peers for a SIGGRAPH conference coffee!

WiGRAPH @wigraph.bsky.social · Jun 30

🎉☕ Announcing WiGRAPH Conference Coffees: SIGGRAPH 2025 Edition! ☕🎉

Are you a researcher of an underrepresented gender registered for SIGGRAPH? Do you want an opportunity to network with your peers? Learn more and sign up here:
www.wigraph.org/events/2025-...

WiGRAPH Conference Coffee: Sign-Up

WiGRAPH is organizing a SIGGRAPH 2025 conference coffee! Are you a researcher of a gender that is underrepresented at SIGGRAPH? Would you like for an opportunity to network with peers? Sign up for th...

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Silvia Sellán @silviasellan.bsky.social · Jul 9

Yes! Here are all the SGP grad school recordings for every year: school.geometryprocessing.org

SGP Summer School - Presentations

school.geometryprocessing.org

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Ruben Wiersma @rubenwiersma.nl · Jul 9

The materials of my graduate school course at #SGP2025 on "Deep Learning on Meshes and Point Clouds" are live on rubenwiersma.nl/deeplearning. A 'map' for 3D deep learning, covering the basics and thoughts on when and where to use deep learning tools in 3D.

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Silvia Sellán @silviasellan.bsky.social · Jul 9

Wooooah really cool, Ruben! I wish I had been there. I will be sharing this resource with everyone!!

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Silvia Sellán @silviasellan.bsky.social · Jul 9

Congratulations!!

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