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Eurographics Conference @eurographicsc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

⏰ REMINDER: One week left! The deadline to submit your abstract and complete the submission form for the #Eurographics2027 Full Papers track is approaching. 📅 Deadline: September 25, 2026, at 23:59 UTC Discover the full call and submission details: eg2027.isti.cnr.it/call-for-pap... #EG2027

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Call for Full Papers – EUROGRAPHICS 2027

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I cannot really engage with AI discussions that range between "the AI companies force us to" and "what are we supposed to do with all the horses if we let cars on the road" this all sounds like a coping mechanism rather than any constructive attempt to understand how we proceed with the novelty,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Möbious: something/someone who is very Möbius-like,

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Eurographics Conference @eurographicsc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📣 The Call for Full Papers for #Eurographics2027 is open! 📅 Abstract and submission form deadline: Sept. 25, 2026, at 23:59 UTC Discover the full call and submission details: 👉 eg2027.isti.cnr.it/call-for-pap... We look forward to receiving your contributions and welcoming you to #Lucca! #EG2027

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do you know an empress in need of a fellowship,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sorry no idea what "solving Navier Stokes" even means conceptually, this is a multi-flavoured PDE with wildly different results per boundary conditions and other generalizations,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Spotify, Slack, Discord, WHAT do you need to install EVERY SINGLE TIME I load you up,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The most insufferable genAI writing style is not the ---, it's the "We get X, not Y, not Z, but X," often when nobody would have considered Y or Z to be reasonable alternatives to X to begin with. Now this weird "mitigation" writing style is very prevalent in American TikTok "did u know" videos,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Typo of the day: "off-the-self",

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Do not reply" but of course I'm at "do not read",

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Loving these grants where "at least six participants are required from a minimum of 3 countries, one needs to be industry, 5 pages of text, maximum that can be requested £5K",

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

So basically if the haar falls on Edinburgh castle we get De Haar Castle - Wikipedia share.google/CM5rfw3rc8lP...

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De Haar Castle - Wikipedia

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

NYT crossword, magenta is *not* a "purplish-red shade". I'm offended in the name of the CMYK color scheme

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

We won best paper at SGP! Special congratulations to Hongyi, who unfortunately could not make it,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I was like is Nijntje researching heat kernels now??

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"Do you expect authors to check every citation is real?" is an amazing sentiment exposing something very deep about research culture. Papers are meant to be written and metricized not read and used,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Hallucinating citations is cheap. What do we do about a paper misinterpreted (including making up that they described an algorithm they didn't) which gets replicated in infinite subsequent citations. I remember this prevalent phenomenon from the 2010s,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

How come my (pseudo)papers never come up in any hallucinated citation,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Why does GitHub have more security layers than the Pentagon leave me alone please I don't want tokens,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Everyone: AI will soon evolve and kill us all Me: yeah in 10 years tops ppl will rediscover the finite-element method as an alternative to neural fields that works and will rebrand it as "linear splatting",

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The neighborhood I'm living in is called "The Grange" which is literally Lagrange so I'm a Lagrangian,

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Bruno Levy @brunolevy01.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We will give with Cyprien Plateau-Holleville a course on Fluid Simulation with Optimal Transport: New and Old at: - Eurographics 2026 (May 4-8, Aachen) - SIGGRAPH 2026 (July 19-23, LA) Featuring: - Gentle introduction to OT - Create your own OT at home - Fluid sim with OT See you there !

Simulation of a splash using optimal transport

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

ppl who talk politics on LinkedIn "delighted to share my recent LLM opinion! Looking for my next curated rage challenge",

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Is it Chametz if Gaussian curvature >0,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A "position paper" is very Lagrangist sorry I only do (position,velocity) papers,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This is an unusual form of seamless tiling where all edges are continuous but using mirror reflection jumps, (Saughton rose garden, Edinburgh)

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Viacheslav Borovitskiy @vabor112.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Happy to share a major milestone: after years of development, we are officially launching Version 1.0 of the GeometricKernels library! To top it off, our accompanying paper has just been published in JMLR (MLOSS)! 🎉 github.com/geometric-ke...

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Trivial (?) thought of the day: the multiplication table demonstrates that multiplication is basically integrated addition, since you can get to the same number by following any path. Or showing that (y,x) is the gradient of xy (and differential in the discrete integers),

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It's funny how we give importance to putting stuff in the rebuttal as authors that we don't care about at all as reviewers. The best example is setting a positive mood in the sense of "reviewers agreed we are actually quite amazing despite criticism" lol no don't tell me what I agreed to,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Teaching curvature today. Both the tube and the single Pringle are important,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Sorry I'm Curling-free talk to me when they do diverging,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Maybe I'm the worst boomer but I don't understand the point of virtually exploring 3D environments that don't reproduce as you come back to the same point,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

My Teddy's thrawn as thrawn can be an winna pey nae heed tae me,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The topology lecture of the year.

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

CVPR daily early morning email title: YOUR SUBMISSION IS GETTING DESK REJECTED AND DOXXED AS WE SPEAK URGENT ACTION NEEDED Content: please don't forget the review deadline in a few days,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

After years (!) of work, Directional 3.0 (avaxman.github.io/Directional/) is finally released!

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The response "oops haha we fixed the reviewer leak right away but listen here god help me kids if you abused it we will reject all your papers from here to eternity" seemed totally inappropriate and tone-deaf. What about the "our ultra-expensive conferences built on your unpaid work betrayed you"?

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

If I had papers accepted but didn't write about them here did I truly have papers accepted,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I mean it's fun to show cases where LLMs hallucinated stuff as a sort of auto da fe to the human rationale but honestly we can do a bigger demonstration of places where ppl of power and authority (at all levels) have been tear-inducingly stupid whereas LLMs gave reasonably balanced answers,

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Vaishak Belle @vaishakbelle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Do you have a research question or a challenge that could benefit from expert analysis, access to advanced resources, or additional funding? Consider partnering with an MSc project at The University of Edinburgh.

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Interesting visual artifact I just (think I) created: Which do you think is the wider image? *Both exactly 533 pixels wide

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Instead of preparing our IPAB workshop(=seminar) about any of my recent research topics, I decided to give a lecture about Linear Least Squares and all its subtleties (the four subspaces, weak solutions, pseudoinverse etc.). I feel this is something we never quite learn upfront,

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Amir Vaxman @amirvaxman-dgp.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Fight the power <<< embrace the weakness,

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