Silvia Sellán

Yeah truly disgusting

yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

If someone refers an undergraduate student to a known sex offender for a job, and includes a comment about how good-looking the student is in their recommendation letter, that someone should never be allowed to teach undergraduate students ever again.

!?!? book!?!?

Same here....

My Spanish degree worked like this too... though admittedly I hated those exams withe every fiber of my being

The CVPR review period is *Dec 18 to Jan 12*? Damn....

(FYI it seems like they no longer appear "by default" over abstracts, at least in the cases I've tested)

Screenshot of a paper entry: Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler (There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

This is really, really bad!

I was like "ah what a shame that I was not around for that!" and then I scrolled down lol

Writing code on a bumpy train and tried stabilizing the display image to my head -- it does (surprisingly) make things a bit easier to read but overall feels too weird to actually use.

This is crazy haha I love it

WHAT!?

The Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI, www.replicabilitystamp.org), a community-driven initiative to promote replicability in Graphics research, is seeking volunteers.

More details in the 'Volunteering' section of the home page.

Looks pretty! Hope you're happy there, Claas :)

What!??! That's crazy. Where were you when I was moving furniture??

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!”

“it’s October 3rd”

Happy K-Mean Girls Day to those who celebrate

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

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!

YouTube video by de500ya Flashed Face Distortion Effect

Best illusion I've seen in a while

This is the metareview

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. 🧵👇

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

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

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

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."

Internet Roadtrip Let's take a streetview roadtrip

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...

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 ...

"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."

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.

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

Replication Crisis

xkcd.com/3117/

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