Ashish Avachat @aashiesh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/116...ieeexplore.ieee.org 000
Reposted by Ashish AvachatCMU Griffin School of Computer Science @scsatcmu.bsky.social · 14/11/2025A trio of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, developed a camera with a specialized lens that can focus individual pixels to different depths, ensuring that everything in a photo is perfectly sharp and in focus. petapixel.comThis Camera System Can Focus on Everything, Everywhere, All At OnceNo more focus stacking. 022
Ashish Avachat @aashiesh.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Our paper on modeling and characterizing the backscatter electrons in distributed x-ray sources based on our cylindrical anodes is now available on NIMA. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comModeling and Characterizing the electron backscatter in a cylindrical anode-based distributed X-ray sourceUpcoming advancements in computed tomography architectures warrants the investigation of new X-ray source designs and the impacts that electron backsc… 000
Reposted by Ashish AvachatAlexandre Bovet @abovet.bsky.social · 02/06/2025New preprint out today on Why Academics Are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky: arxiv.org/abs/2505.24801 By @dorianquelle.bsky.social @fdenker.bsky.social and @prashantgarg.bsky.social. Just in time for Dorian's talk at the Networks in Science of Science satellite at #NetSci2025 this afternoonarxiv.orgWhy Academics Are Leaving Twitter for BlueskyWe analyse the migration of 300,000 academic users from Twitter/X to Bluesky between 2023 and early 2025, combining rich bibliometric data, longitudinal social-media activity, and a novel cross-platfo... 05913
Reposted by Ashish AvachatUW–Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social · 27/05/2025How will radiation affect astronauts who travel to Mars? UW–Madison researchers are exploring that question — and their work could also provide insights on improving radiation treatment for cancer patients here on Earth.onwisconsin.uwalumni.comRadiation’s Effect on Astronauts | On WisconsinUW research helps clear the way for travel to Mars. 052
Reposted by Ashish AvachatAl Merose @al.merose.com · 25/05/2025I always say: only automate what you're ok letting atrophy 041
Reposted by Ashish AvachatAnthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 4339132
Reposted by Ashish AvachatGautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 10/05/2025It's been one year since Jim Simons passed away. He remains one of the greatest philanthropists of our time. His commitment to fundamental scientific research was truly extraordinary and remains essential for advancing humanity. www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/s...simonsfoundation.orgSimons Foundation Co-Founder, Mathematician and Investor Jim Simons Dies at 86Simons Foundation Co-Founder, Mathematician and Investor Jim Simons Dies at 86 on Simons Foundation 1297
Reposted by Ashish AvachatPeter Sokol-Hessner @p1sh.bsky.social · 26/04/2025“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025 616955
Reposted by Ashish AvachatU.S. Fusion Energy @usfusionenergy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Kick off #FusionEnergyWeek with an intro to the science that could transform our energy future. Join Troy Carter at ORNL for a talk exploring the fundamentals of fusion energy and East Tennessee’s growing role. Details here: usfusionenergy.org/event/lighting-way-how-ornl-making-fusion-energy-reality 011
Reposted by Ashish AvachatLuca Ambrogioni @lucamb.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I am very happy to share our latest work on the information theory of generative diffusion: "Entropic Time Schedulers for Generative Diffusion Models" We find that the conditional entropy offers a natural data-dependent notion of time during generation Link: arxiv.org/abs/2504.13612 2255
Reposted by Ashish AvachatDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comExclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing onesUS science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’. 381309963
Reposted by Ashish AvachatPeter Gray @peteryugray.bsky.social · 21/04/2025New post: "Apple Machine Learning Research at #ICLR 2025" - highlighting a selection of the many Apple #ML research papers to be presented at @iclr-conf.bsky.social this week: machinelearning.apple.com/research/icl...machinelearning.apple.comApple Machine Learning Research at ICLR 2025Apple researchers are advancing machine learning (ML) and AI through fundamental research that improves the world’s understanding of this… 063
Reposted by Ashish AvachatKaty Huff @katyhuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I'm going to state something that's obvious at every university: today was the deadline for folks to decide which grad school they'll join in the fall. This probably won't make headlines, but because we don't expect normal funding, universities aren't admitting a normal number of students. (1/4) 18730
Reposted by Ashish AvachatOisin Mac Aodha @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Check out Neehar Kondapaneni's upcoming ICLR 2025 work which proposes a new approach for understanding how two neural networks differ by discovering the shared and unique concepts learned by the networks. Representational Similarity via Interpretable Visual Concepts arxiv.org/abs/2503.15699 0227
Ashish Avachat @aashiesh.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Pretty pretty pretty pretty cool www.nature.com/immersive/d4...nature.comThe MICrONS ProjectAn unprecedented dataset of high resolution anatomical images of individual cells in mouse visual cortex, mapped on to their responses. This integrated view of function and structure lays a foundation... 000
Ashish Avachat @aashiesh.bsky.social · 09/04/2025arxiv.org/abs/2502.17655arxiv.orgVolume estimates for unions of convex sets, and the Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensionsWe study sets of $δ$ tubes in $\mathbb{R}^3$, with the property that not too many tubes can be contained inside a common convex set $V$. We show that the union of tubes from such a set must have almos... 100
Reposted by Ashish AvachatKosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Next stop: arXiv cleaner github.com/google-resea...github.comGitHub - google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner: arXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXivarXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv - google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner 2414
Reposted by Ashish AvachatKosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025The #NeurIPS2024 tutorial on “Flow Matching for Generative Modeling” is now available! Feel the learn 🤓 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...neurips.ccNeurIPS Tutorial Flow Matching for Generative ModelingNeurIPS 2024 0267
Reposted by Ashish AvachatDavid Pfau @davidpfau.com · 01/01/2025In the interest of generating more ML/AI discussion here - here's a really interesting looking paper from Mason Kamb and @suryaganguli.bsky.social on an *analytic* theory of diffusion models. t.co/SYkAAh6k4C 17611
