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David Picard

@davidpicard.eurosky.social
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Professor of Computer Vision/Machine Learning at Imagine/LIGM, École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées @ecoledesponts.bsky.social Music & overall happiness 🌳🪻 Born well below 350ppm 😬 mostly silly personal views 📍Paris 🔗 davidpicard.github.io

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 1h
Je sens que Bluesky est pret pour des memes sur la causalité.
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 1h
Today's weather was exceptional. It felt like summer. Both beautiful and very scary at the same time. Of the 40+ years I've walked the Earth (one more as of today 🥳), I don't recall this ever happening.
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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 3h
Actually, way better (and earlier) citation: here's the DINO paper.
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Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers
In this paper, we question if self-supervised learning provides new properties to Vision Transformer (ViT) that stand out compared to convolutional networks (convnets). Beyond the fact that adapting s...
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 6h
The convolution is back in the office! (Yes, this is a straight sheet of paper)
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 9h
Album of the day: youtu.be/3A8xBy6cXso?... For no particular reason, it seems a good fit for today.
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Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence (full album) 1999
YouTube video by Xtreme Underrated Music (Ignat Stamaton)
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 10h
🚨 Apply now for the #ELLISPhD Program! 🎓 Work with leading AI/ML researchers across Europe, with exchange visits & joint supervision. The application deadline is 31 Oct. Get all info & apply now at ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
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VisionBernie - Bernhard Egger @visionbernie.bsky.social · 11h
We are recruiting an ELLIS PhD student (100% E13) at FAU Germany for a joint ANR-DFG project with Sarah Matta and Tinashe Mutsvangwa from IMT Atlantique. Apply via the ELLIS PhD program: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... Image generated by Gemini (1/3)
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Nicolas Bonneel @nbonneel.bsky.social · 22h
And I hope we can all agree to desk-reject any paper using "Super intelligence" when it means "artificial intelligence"
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Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 [Token][ization] Paper Alert 🚨 Tokenization is a wildly understudied area of language modeling despite it having effects across all of NLP. Over the past ~8 months, 32 (!) tokenizer researchers put together the most comprehensive survey of the field. Check it out!
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The Data Therapist in the Blue Sky @datatherapist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sorry, people
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Joke’s on China. Just need to wait, and academics will put everything on arxiv for free www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
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UK accuses China of using academics to spy on AI and other tech research
Britain's MI5 spy agency issued an unprecedented alert on Wednesday to ​warn that a Chinese organisation was involved in funding academic research into topics such as AI on behalf ‌of Beijing's state ...
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Wikipédia en français @wikipediafr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
30 septembre 1938: Espérant éviter la guerre, la France et le Royaume Uni signent avec Hitler les accords de Munich, en lui concédant la région des Sudètes. En 1939, Hitler annexe cependant le reste de la Tchécoslovaquie, puis envahit la Pologne ce qui déclenche la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. #CeJourlà
Photographie prise le 29 septembre 1938 lors des accords de Munich. De gauche à droite : Neville Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini et Galeazzo Ciano. Cette image capture un moment clé de la diplomatie européenne, où ces hommes ont négocié l'annexion des Sudètes par l'Allemagne dans une tentative d'éviter une guerreDouble carte illustrant le démembrement de la Tchécoslovaquie entre 1938 et 1939. La première carte représente le pays avant les accords de Munich, tandis que la seconde met en évidence les territoires annexés ou occupés par l'Allemagne nazie, la Pologne et la Hongrie. Les frontières redessinées et les zones colorées illustrent visuellement la fragmentation progressive du pays, qui a conduit à la disparition de la Tchécoslovaquie indépendante.
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International Conference on 3D Vision @3dvconf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🏆 The 3DV Citations Grand Prix! P2, with 3337 citations. "Matterport3D: Learning from RGB-D Data in Indoor Environments". arxiv.org/abs/1709.06158 Shout out to Angel Chang, Angela Dai, Thomas Funkhouser, Maciej Halber, Matthias Nießner, Manolis Savva, Shuran Song, Andy Zeng, and Yinda Zhang!
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FX Coudert @nanoporous.net · 29/09/2026
J'ai voulu acheter un fauteuil, 381 € chez Bruneau. “Ah non il faut passer par UGAP c'est le marché”. Le même article chez UGAP : 643 €.
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Empty Pockets: Man Holding a Dollar Bill
ALT: Empty Pockets: Man Holding a Dollar Bill
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Jonathan Sauder @josauder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Had a lot fun adding new segmentation models trained on CoralscapesV2 (josauder.github.io/coralscapesv2/) and new 3D backends (VGGT-Ω and LingBot-Map) to the DeepReefMap repo (github.com/eceo-epfl/de...)! Happy I believed in learned dense 3D reconstruction wayyyy before it worked so incredibly well!
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Woke up one day to discover that my field had moved to discussing research mostly on 4chan, explaining that yes, there were a lot of horrible things on the other boards but they mostly didn't see it
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ANR - Agence nationale de la recherche @agencerecherche.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[Rappel] Clôture du dépôt de l'étape 1 de l’AAPG 2027 le 13 octobre 2026 à 17h. Retrouvez tous les supports d’aide et d’information (Guide, trames, FAQ, replays, charte IA) mis à votre disposition pour vous accompagner dans la finalisation de vos propositions. ➡ anr.fr/fr/actus/det...
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Romain Tavenard @rtavenar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🎓 5 M2 research internships in my group (IRISA/Inria, Rennes · also Vannes or Paris depending on topic), each with a funded PhD to follow. Topics span optimal transport, differentiable solvers and time series. 👉 rtavenar.github.io/research/jobs.html
rtavenar.github.io
Jobs | Romain Tavenard
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Christophe Chartreux @libreavanttout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
" Le racisme et l'antisémitisme sont des démences qui attaquent l'intelligence autant que la conscience. On ne discute pas avec la peste, on la combat. " Albert Camus - Actuelles I (1948)
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Est-ce que quelqu'un sait s'il y a des collègues qui déposent des articles en masse sur HAL, à un rythme pas faisable par un humain de toute évidence, depuis que les LLMs sont bons à faire des papiers? (Un peu comme sur arxiv, en somme)
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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
t’s that time of year again: graduate admissions season. Inspired by @phillipisola.bsky.social post on doing a PhD in the age of AI (highly recommended!), I share some thoughts on how to email a professor about joining their lab. 1/2
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
That's a great set of ideas, a must read for anyone starting. I think I would still do a PhD if I had to start today. I'm as excited to discover new stuff (and make cool new things) as I was when I started. Perhaps even more so now because of the complexity of what can be achieved.
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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Students sometimes ask me if it still makes sense, in this accelerating age, to pursue a PhD in AI. Perhaps counterintuitively, I think it's a great time to do so. I wrote up some thoughts on this here: web.mit.edu/phillipi/www...
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On the Value of Doing a PhD in the Age of AI
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Failing to stop burning fossil fuels continues to destroy the only climate safety zone humanity has ever known
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Tommy Löfstedt @tommylofstedt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last couple of days to apply for this #assistantprofessor position at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social! Come work with us! #machinelearning
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 28/09/2026
Register now for the #ELLISUnConference in Paris 🇫🇷 on 8 December at ellis-unconference.github.io! With sessions on foundation & world models, AI agents, multimodal & graph learning, probabilistic & causal ML, AI for health & climate, sustainability, open-source ML... See you in Paris!
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Nice but, I don't know, I still kinda prefer our Earth, with its green forests. Can we keep it green?
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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Applications to ALPS 2027 are open !!!
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Orynick @orynick.fr · 28/09/2026
La page qui s'affiche quand il y a un souci sur le Financial Times est magistrale 😆
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026
These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)
A complex, swirling pattern of lighter and darker clouds. One large system, angled to the upper left in this scene, is a tawny brown colour and is elongate. Another, more circular storm system is at lower centre, and is a grey–greenish colour. The background swirls are various shades of grey to blue; small, white features dot the scene.
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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The biggest evidence for success being driven by luck is listening to people like Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg etc. Fish for brains.
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
L'été qui dure cinq mois de l'année...
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 27/09/2026
On the Theoretical CS job market? "The Algorithms and Complexity group of 🇫🇷 IRIF is seeking excellent candidates for postdoctoral positions in classical and quantum computing, with starting date in October 2027 (negotiable)." @irif-paris.bsky.social cstheory-jobs.org/2026/09/25/p...
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is strange how much LLMs turned out to be able to solve such a wide range of hard problems that would not, instinctively, seem to be problems that a model of human language would be able to solve This is from a Stanford project that let Astra drive a robot in a kitchen tml.stanford.edu/homebody/
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
You guys are getting spoiled, you have no idea! If anything, those willing to learn are getting smarter faster than ever, not dumber.
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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Visualization of the day: Video tubelets
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Who else has this visualization engraved in their brain?
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 25/09/2026
🏹 Job alert: PhD student position in Interpretability for Protein Language Models at Leipzig University 📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪 ⏰ 15 October 🔗 bit.ly/3V63Gpm
lionlabnlp.github.io
PhD Student Position in Interpretability for Protein Language Models — LION Lab
Fully funded PhD student position at LION Lab, Leipzig University, on interpretability for protein language models.
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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The NeurIPS 2026 decisions are being processed on OpenReview for the main, Position Track Papers and Evaluations and Datasets tracks and we expect all of them to be available by end of day AoE.
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
"There were 30709 valid paper submissions with a PDF to the NeurIPS Main Track this year, of which the program committee accepted 7900 (25.7%) papers in total, with breakdown of 7496 as posters, 292 as spotlight and 112 as oral." This is getting ridiculous, guys...
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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We had X NeurIPS 2026 submissions and Y of them passed, X-Y were rejected. The actual counts are irrelevant, as every Y was appreciated and each and every X-Y hurt. These were the last ones where coding was done 100% by humans 💪. Also writing btw, but we continue to do all our writing ourselves.
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh! Here we go again?
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Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier.fr · 24/09/2026
Voter Le Pen c’est voter Poutine.
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David Rügamer @davidruegamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NeurIPS results are out (only Main track for now)
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Benoit Rosa @benoitrosa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At some point we will need to collectively agree that, even in academic framework which value number of publications, 200 publications in any given year is a HUGE red flag.
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Aleix M Martinez @aleixmartinez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI infrastructure is now 3.6% of GDP. The good: This is what’s keeping the economy pumping. The bad: If AI falters, it may take the economy with it. The ugly: Private construction on everything else (including housing) is way down.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a really important graph showing the cost of achieving 25% or 75% scores in various hard math and science benchmarks. Costs are collapsing even as ability is increasing It is also why optimizing for cost for a particular solution right now may end up being short sighted
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Baptiste GENEST @baptiste-genest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Someone made a Houdini asset with it and is doing art ! It makes me so proud😭 youtu.be/Vy63rWhi7bk?... www.reddit.com/r/Houdini/s/...
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OT Letters
YouTube video by SingleVector
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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Visualization of the day: Slices through visual spacetime Interactive webpage: csprofkgd.github.io/spacetime-vo...
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