Dima Petrov

since when conda needs user registration to download installer?

I feel like smaller conferences are way to go for good discussion in current buzz dominated landscape -- too much glory and pride at both sides of the process at big conferences

However, almost no one lists 3DV in lists of desired conferences in job postings 🤷‍♂️

transport fever 2, eurotruck simulator, sunless sea and sunless skies, dredge

megabonk ftw

It is amazing to observe how small developers are pressuring AAA teams:

Borderlands 4: made by ~1000 people, costs >$200 mln, needs high end hardware

Megabonk: solo dev, costed sack of potatoes, runs on potato machines.

Power of open but well-regulated platform (steam)

maybe AGI meant 'advertising general intelligence' all along

I am not very well-versed in terms of high/low impact but I think people mostly prefer to publish in CVPR these days and everything is lower impact lol.

Overall I would say that review cycle will take 6-9 months overall depending on whether major revision is needed.

also maybe TPAMI

3D vision papers definitely publish in TVCG -- it is maybe more 3D focused but might be an option

ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/topAcces...

TVCG?

Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence in my ability to assess people. Let me just throw a couple of algorithm questions at a candidate an...

In the new era of LLMs generating code, I remember blog post where author argued that instead of giving people large problems, it is better to give 10-15 snippets of code to read to get bet signal-to-noise ratio. I think this observation is very relevant these days

erikbern.com/2018/05/02/i...

REMOVE ALL TRIES AND EXCEPTIONS GIVE ME CODE I CAN DEBUG -- me vibe coding hour 1+

yes, I agree and I think plotting stuff falls into granular coding questions category very well

oh yes, good point. I should try those as well!

Not sure about AGI and such but vibe-coding solved my years long struggle of efficiently writing matplotlib code for complicated plot grids: you can give Claude data format and what you want (title formatting, axis tick sizes, legend fonts, etc) and it will give code that works out of the box.

Find it out, write it down, get it out there. Leonid Bershidsky remembers pioneering journalist Derk Sauer — Meduza Derk Sauer, who died in Amsterdam on Thursday at the age of 72, was a figure of rare consequence in the history of post-Soviet journalism. A former reporter and editor in the Netherlands, he departed ...

Here is Leonid Bershidsky's reminiscence about impact of Derk Sauer on Russian independent journalism. Bershidsky was first editor-in-chief of Vedomosti -- independent Russian business daily built under FT and WSJ brands and principles.

meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Derk Sauer, Champion of Free Press in a New Russia, Dies at 72

I worked for Derk Sauer as an FMCG markets reporter in SmartMoney and even though I have never met him in person, the company and teams that he build deeply taught me a lot

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...

We have bought a printer and it was easier to install on Linux than on Mac.

End times are coming, that's for sure.

(or I am just bad at Mac stuff)

PM @mark-carney.bsky.social: If we want to keep hosting academic conferences in 🇨🇦, we need reasonable visitor visa wait times. The academic community is already exploring alternative host countries beyond the usual locations, and visa processes are becoming a crucial factor.

Non-Violent Communication, and Technical Communication A few years ago, an idea called Non-Violent Communication (NVC) became important to how I communicate, especially in situations of conflict or potential conflict. When I’ve mentioned the NVC book to f...

Here's a new blog post about Non-Violent Communication (NVC), a useful technique for difficult conversations, and how some NVC ideas could be useful scientific and technical communication. I even make an analogy of NVC to the concept of "umwelt".
aaronhertzmann.com/2025/06/23/n...

In my reviews, I always try to be about paper and not about authors and this post shows that there is still room for improvement

Due to visa issues and wi-fi issues at largest computer vision conference, here is my #CVPR2025 experience

amazing work, thank you!

Your personalized CVPR 25 @cvprconference.bsky.social conference programs are now available for you!
www.scholar-inbox.com/conference/c...

I will most likely miss my first CVPR if my F1 visa won't get renewed in 1 week or so (been waiting for 3.5+ months).

It makes me so incredibly sad.

triangle 'student-advisor-ICE` seems to be somewhat relevant these days :/

Our Summer Geometry Initiative is more popular than ever, with a record # of applicants. But thanks to "2025 problems," SGI needs sponsors for it to survive past 2025. Please contact me if you're interested or have ideas!

Photograph of a bog with blue water and colorful moss in the foreground and green trees and blue sky in the background.

Boglands - where beauty flows from an overabundance of death. The hope of resilience, grit, and quiet determination is perhaps the hope we all need.

I am currently reading "War" by Bob Woodward and it provides a lot of insight about approaches of previous and current US administrations to Russia-Ukraine war. Can't recommend enough.

YouTube video by Matthias Niessner TUM AI Lecture Series - The 3D Gaussian Splatting Adventure: Past, Present, Futur (George Drettakis)

Amazing talk about non-linear journey towards Guassian Splatting

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjOq...

Can we normalize using 'experienced' and 'skilled' in job descriptions instead of 'exceptional' and 'outstanding'?