🎰 Welcome to the FID Lottery. We pulled the lever 25 times on the same machine. Identical diffusion model, identical ImageNet class-cond recipe, only the seed changed. The house paid out anywhere from 33.59 to 35.69 FID. A 2.1-point spread, pure luck. Step onto the floor 👇🧵

The alpha version of my new book "Optimal Transport for Machine Learners" is out, with in particular an online version with interactive figures www.gpeyre.com/ot4ml/

#ESR ➡️ "Toute #CPJ pourvue en 2026 devra être gagée par le non-remplacement d'un départ d'enseignant-chercheur" (Dgesip). Nous l'indiquions lors du précédent mandat, c'est maintenant officiel : les CPJ sont la pour assécher les postes d'EC.👏 www.aefinfo.fr/depeche/7510...

Constructive City with Universal Man by Joaquín Torres-García, 1942 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137634

The Manor House at Jas de Bouffan, 1870 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11583

On rappelle aux candidat·es dans les sections cnu 25, 26, 27, et 61 que l'opération postes fête ses 28 bougies cette année : postes.smai.emath.fr/current/inde...

Un cow-boy usé par la loi de la violence qui, en rencontrant une femme, apprend à devenir un homme. Classique et subtil.

The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

Two Blue Horses by Franz Marc, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137721

At #CVPR2026, 16,092 submissions underwent the review process (this number excludes papers withdrawn or desk-rejected during the review process). The program committee recommended 4,090 papers for acceptance, resulting in an acceptance rate of 25.42%.

What is wild to me is the defense, BY THE NEURIPS BOARD, that fabricated citations do not mean "the content of the papers themselves [is] necessarily invalidated" It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?

La présidente de l’université Paul-Valéry, à Montpellier : « il y a eu quatre suicides de personnels titulaires (le précédent remontait à vingt-cinq ans), trois crises cardiaques au travail, deux AVC [au bureau] ». Ça craque partout à l’université. www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

Olivet - Chalet aux bords du Loiret à #Olivet (#Loiret) Suite 👉 https://cartorum.fr/carte-postale/234921/olivet-olivet-chalet-aux-bords-du-loiret

Today opens the Geneva Lux festival and it features our latest BamX structure. Together with light artist Félix Michel, we created this immersive installation located in front of the cathedral in Geneva. Epic! More info: genevalux.ch/en/works/202...

Au labo, pas de budget, pas de galette !

Today I deleted my account on the other site that was asleep for weeks… it was about time ! I am surprise (and saddened) by all the activity that remains there, especially regarding companies and politics.

"Consequence-free physical and sexual abuse of children was part of the deal the institutional Church offered the Irish state for to run schools, hospitals and other expensive-looking services. This week the Taoiseach demonstrated the same mental habits." www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

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Les motifs économiques de l'intervention américaine au Venezuela : un post éclairant de @gabrielzucman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/gabrielz...

Siguiendo con gran preocupación la situación en Venezuela. La Unión Europea hace un llamamiento a la desescalada y a una resolución basada en el marco del Derecho Internacional y de los principios consagrados en la Carta de las Naciones Unidas.

It's official: Bulgaria is in the euro-zone. An excerpt from an atypically emotional NYE address by the Central Bank governor: "Thank you, friends. We are home. This is not a protocol. It is a feeling. In this sense, the euro is not just an economic solution... www.bnb.bg/AboutUs/Pres...

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#OtD 29 Dec 1939 French physician, libertarian socialist and women's rights activist, Madeleine Pelletier, died in an asylum where she had been interned for openly performing abortions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1008...

Ecole d'été de Peyresq sur les modèles génératifs et le transport optimal : www.gretsi.fr/peyresq2026 (cours en français). Date limite de candidature le 27 février

"C'est un vrai cri d'alarme" : de Lille à Angers, des universités alertent sur leur situation financière www.franceinfo.fr/societe/educ... @afp.com @franceinfo.fr

#Communiqué 🗞️ En 2026, pour célébrer ses 40 ans, le @museeorsay.bsky.social devient un véritable théâtre du vivant. Deux soirées dans la Nef plongeront le public dans un spectacle immersif au coeur des dynamiques cellulaires donnant vie à l’architecture de la gare. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un...

Announcing the ICML 2026 policy for LLMs in reviewing! Reviewers and authors both pick either conservative or permissive LLM use, and will be matched accordingly. Importantly: authors on papers who choose conservative must obey the conservative policy as reviewers.

JO du jour : ouverture des postes de CR au CNRS : www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORF... Avec une coquille : le titre et la liste des postes disent "chargés de recherche de classe normale" mais l'article 1 dit "directeurs de recherche de 1ère classe". Rectificatif à venir.

Neurips submission growth

En 1986, le patrimoine individuel net des 30-39 ans représentait près de la moitié de celui des 50-59 ans. Un chiffre tombé à 28 % trente-cinq ans plus tard. Et l’écart se creuse encore davantage avec les plus de 70 ans. ➡️ Lire l'article : https://www.altereco.media/vrt

I'm now also looking for a postdoc with strong Bayesian background and interest in developing Bayesian cross-validation theory, methods and software. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact information at users.aalto.fi/~ave/). Others, please share

Holy moly. The current WNBA salaries are (accounting for inflation) still below the salaries of the ABL, a player-centric WBB league that preceded and, for a moment, competed with the WNBA.

One-day workshop on Diffusion models and Flow matching, October 24th at @ensdelyon.bsky.social Registration and call for contributions (short talk and poster) are open at gdr-iasis.cnrs.fr/reunions/mod...

I can't* fathom why the top picture, and not the bottom picture, is the standard diagram for an autoencoder. The whole idea of an autoencoder is that you complete a round trip and seek cycle consistency—why lay out the network linearly?

Si on supprimait la CSG payée par les retraités et qu'en même temps on baissait les retraites du même montant, Rien n'aurait changé mais on pourrait dire "on a baissé le taux de prélèvement obligatoire de 0,75 point de PIB" et le niveau de dépense d'autant. Et alors ?

Welcome @univorleans.bsky.social #ESR

For Europeans, this is a reference to an iconic Norman Rockwell image painted during the desegregation of southern schools. The difference is that in that image the federal law enforcement officials were the good guys.

I just discovered this tree view. Why isn't this enabled by default? Only this really makes sense for complex threads.

#IPAM (the institute for pure and applied mathematics) is facing a critical shortfall for operating expenses due to an unexpected suspension of NSF funding www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/nsf-fun... . Donations for emergency continuity of operations funding can be made at giving.ucla.edu/Campaign/Donat

Oh crap #MathSky, that institute is IPAM! Having IPAM destroyed is a legit disaster for a large part of the math community 😭 www.ipam.ucla.edu

20 years ago this day I had the chance to participate to the RIPS IPAM program… it was my first experience on research in image processing, a very impactful and enriching experience. I hope IPAM can be preserved!

Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...

As a #NeurIPS AC I did a little stat. Paper reviews+responses in my batch contain 515k characters and 75k words. This is without including papers themselves or authors/reviewers discussions. So please be nice to your AC, we are doing our best. Also I miss the one page PDF response of old ICML.

La #RIPEC C1 c’est bien mais il y a mieux pour certains chercheurs : - chargés de recherche : 6 290 € ; - directeur de recherche : 8 230 €

Revalorisation historique !

Eure-et-Loir forever !

On l’apprend grâce à @etiennecatalan.bsky.social : Guerschon Yabusele portera le numéro 28 aux Knicks !

Malgré le rapport du Sénat sur les 211 Mds€ (!) d'aides aux entreprises, rien dans les propositions qui envisage de les réinterroger retrouver le rapport du Sénat : www.senat.fr/rap/r24-808-... 3/6

1/ Can open-data models beat DINOv2? Today we release Franca, a fully open-sourced vision foundation model. Franca with ViT-G backbone matches (and often beats) proprietary models like SigLIPv2, CLIP, DINOv2 on various benchmarks setting a new standard for open-source research.

⚠️⬛ "Année blanche" ou annonce d'une série noire pour le service public ? Il y aurait beaucoup à dire sur les annonces budgétaires du premier ministre ce mardi. Mais le plus frappant, c'est peut-être combien les conséquences de ce plan sur les services publics sont invisibilisées. Thread 1/14 ⤵️