Amy Tabb

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

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

[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/

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_.

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.

‘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...

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

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

I'm currently reading

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

Original is _Un lugar soleado para gente sombría_.

[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.

US revokes nearly 1,500 student visas: Who are the targets? Hundreds of students have had their visas cancelled and find themselves in limbo.

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/...

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

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/...

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.

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

hey would you look at the time

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...

Mrs. Blackbird looking for nesting material.

Have a great day☕🖖

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

One of the perfect da share zone memes 🤌

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 ❤️

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...

🔥🔥🔥 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!

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.

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.

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

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

Oh god. Traveling in / out of the USA seems dangerous at the moment. I was aware of the story below but the one you mentioned hasn't shown up in US news, thanks for posting about it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Fixing the RANSAC Stopping Criterion

Johannes Schönberger, Viktor Larsson,
@marcpollefeys.bsky.social

tl;dr: ratio between the number of all-inlier samples and the number of possible samples->fix the approximate probability in RANSAC

arxiv.org/abs/2503.07829

AnyCalib: On-Manifold Learning for Model-Agnostic Single-View Camera Calibration

Javier Tirado-Garín, Javier Civera

tl;dr: FOV field parameterization >> Perspective field. Sota on focal length estimation

arxiv.org/abs/2503.12701

A Framework for Reducing the Complexity of Geometric Vision Problems and its Application to Two-View Triangulation with Approximation Bounds

Felix Rydell @bokmangeorg.bsky.social
@fredkahl.bsky.social Kathlén Kohn
tl;dr:cool for triangulation,won't pretend I got the math
arxiv.org/abs/2503.08142

They are so cute! thank you

8-Calves Image dataset

Xuyang Fang, Sion Hannuna, Neill Campbell

tl;dr: 1 hour video of 8 calves.
+ some object detector & classifier eval

arxiv.org/abs/2503.13777