WITCHING HOUR by Ladytron was released 20 years ago today. It was the highlight of the year for me, and helped me yearn for beauty at a time my life had very little of it. Give this album a listen. It still sounds like it was made 5 years in the future. youtu.be/esxxpR4SVPU?...

If you're at SIGGRAPH, don't miss our presentation on GAIA: Generate 3D Gaussian animatable avatars with identity & expression control and real-time animation – All from in-the-wild data. 📅 Talk: Aug 14, 9 AM PDT – West Bldg, Rm 211–214 🎮 Live demo @ E-Tech research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/pr...

Chat render me a “babe it’s not the same without you” text from a graphics person in Vancouver

Coming into the office today like

SIGGRAPH’s response to concerns about safety in Kuala Lumpur is “thank you for your letter”. Disappointing. I wasn’t planning on attending because the birthplace on my passport precludes me from being safe in Malaysia - but I guess this is now everybody’s problem. www.siggraph.org/news/listeni...

Bummed to miss SIGGRAPH this year, really really bummed. If I hear any of you are doing computer graphics without me, I’ll fuck you up

If you want to see what an awesome endeavor the US government is, this account is useful.

Paper snip of me w/ the IDF high commander, printed Aug. 5 2005. I volunteered to participate in the removal of Israeli settlements in the Gaza strip. I thought I could do nothing more important for the future of coexistence. Today, exactly 20 yrs later, Netanyahu reversed this move. Heartbroken.

I would pay for a WandB feature that adds football fan sounds to the loss curve view

The more I know about musical instrument construction, the more I appreciate how modern electric guitars are sort of a local optimum. Few changes after the 1931-1955 designs made any difference. Same can be said about the fortepiano, but its' evolution took hundreds of years, not 24.

Google’s Gemini 2.5 paper has 3295 authors arxiv.org/abs/2507.06261

Saw Oasis in Manchester. The entire city (and country) was consumed with it. 15% of the audience (80k/night) wore bucket hats. Musically, it was amazing. Otherwise it felt like late FleetwoodMac. Liam and Noel did not exchange a single word. Liam spoke to the audience, Noel just wanted to go home

Hot take: This is ethical

Shape rotators are now a quantified being

Excited to share our paper: "Chain-of-Thought Is Not Explainability"! We unpack a critical misconception in AI: models explaining their steps (CoT) aren't necessarily revealing their true reasoning. Spoiler: the transparency can be an illusion. (1/9) 🧵

In London and Manchester next week. Who wants to fight

I have no moral opinion on the Spotify exodus (buy records if u wanna support artists) but if this causes a resurgence in Bandcamp or in Soundcloud, well, good

This feels healthy.

Thanks to plummeting prices, analysts say that solar plus batteries can now provide round-the-clock power in the sunniest parts of the world, undercutting fossil gas and reshaping grid planning. buff.ly/X1VmSag #ShareGoodNewsToo

This letter has now reached almost 500 signatures, with many of my heroes, tool builders I have leaned on, professors who taught me, and others who made this field what it is. If keeping this field accessible and egalitarian is important to you, add your signature in the link.

fwiw: My family is ok so far. One visit to the hospital under a barrage (not life threatening) and one roof destroyed from missile shrapnel (not for the first time). Incredibly lucky, all things considered.

Computer Graphics as a field avoids gatekeeping. Practitioners come from many disciplines, origins and beliefs. SIGGRAPH has historically carried this practice. I am thus outraged at the decision to hold SIGGRAPH Asia 26’ at a venue unsafe to many. Adding my signature. I encourage you to do too:

This signals what path education should take when AI paper writing is widely available: Focus on frequent testing and essay defenses, and make sure knowledge lasts. That’s cool, actually.

If you participated in CV4MR 2025, I would like your feedback. Here or at our contact on cv4mr.github.io . How can we do better? What themes should we do next year? DMs open too.

Oh for fuck’s sake

Saw ur mom at CVPR

There may not be many obvious alternatives, but CLIP is not a great embedding for describing motion. It's trained on static images so has a confused concept of time/tense/ordering, will often focus on the object rather than the action, and usually interprets verbs as nouns:

do I know anyone at Black Forest Labs?

Who wants to start a fight over whether calling them “pixels” is classist

loss functions are getting impractically specific

fuck

CVPR culture clash right now: a fight between grad students who flew 16 hours to sit on the floor at an 8 hour long lecture about stochastic integrals, and Tennessee event staff who normally work as bouncers at country music shows. idk who’s going to win, but I’m arriving early to watch the fight

#CVPR PSA: Printed guide says workshops start at 9AM. It’s false. Follow the CVF Website. CV4MR starts at 8AM, and Richard Newcombe’s Keynote is at 8:40. @cvprconference.bsky.social

The SIGGRAPH Physically Based Shading course is back this year: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Amrita’s workshop is great, and I can’t recommend it enough, but it coincides with mine, so my recommendation is that you should only go if you hate me

Something I've been doing for years: Writing approaches for dealing with creative blocks on flashcards and hanging them in my study. Because respectfully, you don't need Brian Eno to sell you those. Examples below:

Big update from The Workshop on Computer Vision For Mixed Reality @ CVPR 2025: 📝 Papers and schedule are now up! Our Speakers: Richard Newcombe (Meta) Anjul Patney (NVIDIA) Rana Hanocka (UChicago) Laura Leal-Taixe ‪(NVIDIA) Margarita Grinvald (Meta) 📅 June 11, 8AM 📍Room 109. cv4mr.github.io

ChatGPT voice mode shipped an update which makes its conversational agent sound a little less chipper. They added some mumbling, artificial stops and overall reduced the vocal fry. Noble effort for sure, but now it just sounds like even my computer is bored with my bullshit. 6/10

RIP Bill Atkinson. A lot of things in computing "Would've Happened Anyway", not Atkinson's work. Hypercard propelled interactive computing and games like nothing in its' generation. Thank you for everything. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_At...

Building my CVPR schedule. Wanna grab a coffee? DMs open.

in Nashville next week. whomst

First time I’m old enough to understand a new Pulp album (yes, it’s out today)

PSA: If you're a student working on Computer Vision with Mixed Reality applications, are in the Nashville area, but can't afford @cvprconference.bsky.social , my DMs are open. We will sponsor one student for a conference and one for the CV4MR workshop.

As my partner observed, it’s a small miracle that !!! (the band) never got too big to shun small clubs, so we got to see them a lot in NYC. Still. I just learned that FEELGOOD HIT OF THE FALL, the 2000 banger that made me fall for them, was never released with any label. youtu.be/b8VFfOXji48?...

While doing research, I found a paper titled: "The Complex Refractive Index of Water". Okay, that's a title that picked my interest. Turns out the index of refraction of water has a non-null imaginary component, altough it can be neglected in the visible range (pfew). www.philiplaven.com/p20.html

Big update from The Workshop on Computer Vision For Mixed Reality @ CVPR 2025: 📝 Papers and schedule are now up! Our Speakers: Richard Newcombe (Meta) Anjul Patney (NVIDIA) Rana Hanocka (UChicago) Laura Leal-Taixe ‪(NVIDIA) Margarita Grinvald (Meta) 📅 June 11, 8AM 📍Room 109. cv4mr.github.io

Risky post! (This is great, fun to read and the frustrated tone throughout really does capture how it feels sometimes to be an experienced programmer trying to argue that "LLMs are actually really useful" in many corners of the internet)

If you’ve followed me on other platforms ( 🤢 ) you might know I’ve spent the last few years doing computational cinema / edit understanding. I’m happy to say we’ve got the first public live narrative search engine for film and tv! It’s early days. But check it out! ozu.ai

Memorial day post: Thank you, and sorry this is how it has to be

I probably should have done this many years ago, but I finally got around to adding some useful debug features to my old Shadows sample. You can now "freeze" the cascades and zoom out, and draw them to see what they look like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D4A... github.com/TheRealMJP/S...