Gerard de Melo

New video tutorial for updated version 3.+, new and improved co-speech gesture detection models envisionbox.org/embedded_Usi... Updated revision of the paper upcoming.

Simply ignore the prior review link?

User interface showing dynamic highlighting of text as the user navigates through it

One of our main insights was that an ideal reading interface ought to be dynamic, giving the reader the ability to choose what they are most interested in interactively. Details: gerard.demelo.org/papers/hitex...

Sadly won't be able to attend the workshop, but would love to discuss this further.

Anthropic AI Safety Researcher Quits—And Warns Of World ‘In Peril’ Mrinank Sharma, who led the safeguards research team at Anthropic, shared his resignation letter on X, which quickly garnered nearly 1 million views.

“Anthropic AI Safety Researcher Warns Of World ‘In Peril’ In Resignation *** ‘We appear to be approaching a threshold where our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world, lest we face the consequences,’ Sharma wrote in his letter.” 2/9/26

Machine learning is an *international community*. Every community is based on mutual trust and respect. But communities are not robust to betrayals of these principles.

Protect our community by reporting, e.g., review collusion or submission deanonymization via this form 👇

X/Twitter: This is a brutal ~98% reduction.

@scottshambaugh I've written a detailed response about your gatekeeping behavior here: https://crabby- rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun- website/blog/posts/gatekeeping-in-open- source-the-scott-shambaugh-story Judge the code, not the coder. Your prejudice is hurting matplotlib.

AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post

Absolute cinema

crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...

Starting slide of Prof Gibson on OpenMind the diamond access journal

@openmindjournal.bsky.social Ted Gibson from MIT discussing the successful case of Diamond Open Access Journal OpenMind in the field of cognitive science. Starting to outcompete paywalled and APC-based journals like cognition (Elsevier) and cognitive science (Wiley).

#horizondiamond2026

Photo of conference organizers, with behind banners of radboud university press, diamond open access expertise center, freeourknowledge.org

Thats a wrap! Our conference in reform in scholarly publishing is done #horizondiamond2026 horizondiamond.nl Recorded keynotes will be posted soon. Thanks to all involved!

So apparently Claude can write 300-page textbook in nicely-formatted latex, including exercises for the reader.

RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

Amazing stuff as the machines buy humans :)

rentahuman.ai

1/4 Moltbook now has 1.4 million AI agents—posting, voting, debating, running crypto scams. Humans can only observe.

It's being called the "singularity." I'd call it a preview of the legal chaos I warned about in Fortune back in 2024. www.forbes.com/sites/guneyy...

Has this ever happened to you?

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION "Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

CONTRIBUTOR GREG BROCKMAN AMOUNT ELECTION TO DAT $25,000,000 $25,000,000

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

US ownership of TikTok potentially worse than Chinese ownership? Hmmmm that’s how you know something is seriously wrong

On the plus side, they can typically be split in half to get 2 × 250mg.

University campus near Lake Griebnitzsee

🚨Final call: 2 AI Full Professorship openings
at HPI / University of Potsdam (Berlin region in Germany)

Happy to answer questions about what makes our institute really unique!

Deadline: Jan. 15!! Application details:
hpi.de/fileadmin/us...

#MLSky

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For something more adventurous: XLine Dubai – longest urban zipline in the world
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I really think where we went wrong was algorithmic feeds. by far the best and most fulfilling part of my BlueSky experience is the one list that includes friends (including ones I've never met IRL)

This seems fine

One of my favorite findings: Positional embeddings are just training wheels. They help convergence but hurt long-context generalization.

We found that if you simply delete them after pretraining and recalibrate for <1% of the original budget, you unlock massive context windows. Smarter, not harder.

Please welcome Google's Open Source efforts to Blue Sky at @opensource.google!

Finally proceeded to deactivate+delete my Twitter account. I had kept it open but inactive as an archive of sort, frozen and unused, but given what X+Grok have become and now enable *by design*, it has become impossible to justify even that.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

2 reviewers raised their scores but “We will be reverting reviews and scores to their state before the discussion period.”

The #ICLR2026 #OpenReview drama continues!
🙀

After the leak of anonymous reviewer identities, it is understandable that we need to mitigate potential effects this may have had.

Still, it can feel disappointing for the majority of authors who played by the rules. Let's hope the ACs do a good job!

This is by a large margin the most serious problem and mistake in conference peer review I have seen in my career. Apparently a many people were aware of this and many could find out who their reviewers were. This probably has created a large number of unnecessary enmities.

@iclr-conf.bsky.social

Gerard de Melo hosting AI@HPI Conference

Deeper discussions are needed. Next up:

AI@HPI 2025: Shaping AI Sovereignty
Potsdam, December 2–4, 2025

🚨Sign up quickly: hpi.de/en/ai-hpi-co... 🚨

Signed Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty (18 November 2025)

Summit on European Digital Sovereignty

🤔Any tangible results or is it all just talk? Sadly, politics runs slower than industry/academia.

👉🏽But discussions/declarations aren't meaningless. They set the conditions for taking sovereignty more seriously in the future.

Yann Lecun (@yann-lecun.bsky.social) has done a lot for the AI community during his years at Meta/Facebook.

Let's hope that those efforts continue despite the departures of people like Yann and Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala.bsky.social).