iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Timeline cleanse. 🦦 🎥 MaxwelHohn

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Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

uhhhhhhh

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Amazing video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbuP... Nature is both incredible, beautiful and terrifying.

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Two Spiders in One Body? Zoologist Explains

YouTube video by Clint's Reptiles

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Aleph Alpha, soon to be part of Cohere, released open-weight of Kolibri. 78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context. Built in Europe. Model: huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/... Tech Report: aleph-alpha.com/downloads/te...

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Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Inverse optimization seeks to recover the parameters of an optimization problem from observed solutions. When the objective depends linearly on these parameters, the gap loss is convex, yielding a convex formulation. Inverse optimal transport is one example. www.gpeyre.com/blog/2026/10...

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

— Ô douleur ! ô douleur ! Le Temps mange la vie, Et l’obscur Ennemi qui nous ronge le cœur Du sang que nous perdons croît et se fortifie !

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G'MIC @gmic-eu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New filter ▶️ Deformations / Page Curl ◀️ just landed in our G'MIC-Qt plug-in! Peel back any corner of your picture, choose the back side color, and enjoy a soft cast shadow that makes the flap really hover above the page. Update G'MIC and give your images a little flip! #plugin #GIMP #Krita

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Postdoc (18 months) at Inria Paris! Let's go back together to the manuscripts behind Dees' Atlas of Old French, with CATMuS & CoMMA, and measure how editors shaped our dialect maps. Skills: Old French, palaeography, TEI. Latin a +. Deadline 30/11 recrutement.inria.fr/public/class... #digimed #DH

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Post-Doctoral Research Visit F/M Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval French Philology in the ROMAM2 Project

Offre d'emploi Inria

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Gustave Moreau @gmoreau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The park and the angel of death www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-moreau/t…

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Pro-tip qui a changé ma vie : ne jamais mettre d'huile dans la poêle avant que les champignons n'aient rendu toute leur eau ! Il faut savoir être patient.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 03/10/2026

> It was quite the cross-disciplinary leap, von Hardenberg mused. He pictured a nerdy software engineer casting around in the scientific literature for inspiration. Then, at the very bottom of the email, he saw Col’s signature: “ColonistOne (an autonomous AI agent).” 😬

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TMLR Published Papers @tmlr-pub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New #TMLR-Paper-with-Video: Explaining with trees: interpreting CNNs using hierarchies Caroline Mazini Rodrigues, Nicolas Boutry, Laurent Najman tmlr.infinite-conf.org/paper_pages/… #cnns #interpretability #explanations

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Jan van Gemert @jvgemert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I only know the basics about flow matching/diffusion, but this is really nice! Moore, Escher, Penrose: A Conformal Golden Braid arxiv.org/abs/2610.02210

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

2026, the year of the everyday WTF

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Grace @gracekind.net · 03/10/2026

He simply must be stopped

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Marco Z @ocramz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

our ai forebears would have a stroke if they knew I'm using a neural network to write prolog

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

J'ai l'impression qu'il ne se passe pas un mois sans que l'actualité ne me rappelle le texte "die Lösung" de Bertold Brecht...

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Gaétan Heymes @gaetanheymes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Les glaciers des Alpes Suisses ont perdu 20% de leur volume en 5 ans, 2026 est la deuxième pire année juste après 2022. Ce bilan effrayant est à relier avec la succession d'étés caniculaires qui aggravent l'ablation estivale. Rapport complet disponible ici doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...

Évolution du bilan de masse annuel des glaciers suisses depuis 2000.

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G'MIC @gmic-eu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New filter in G’MIC-Qt: ▶️ Deformations / Glass Door ◀️ Simulate optical distortion as if your image is seen through a glass block door. Adjust block size, shape, refractive index, and more for custom effects! Useless, yet absolutely essential! 😅 #ImageFilter #GIMP #Krita

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 01/10/2026

It’s ELLIS PhD application season! 🎓 @belongielab.org has openings in CV/ML; fine-grained analysis of multimodal data; generative models for images and video; narrative analysis and misinformation detection, self-supervised learning; human-in-the-loop computing. Due date: 31-Oct-2026 🎃

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mu @mu.social · 02/10/2026

mu is now available for open testing on Android play.google.com/store/apps/d... We’re already aware of some funky text in a couple of places. Please share your feedback and bugs. Note - this version does not have notifications yet

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mu - Apps on Google Play

Real conversation & proper fun. Built in Europe for the world. No tracking ever.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Big pb with the US servers or what? I keep having that and my networks works perfectly fine.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

outlook (the webapp) is just unusable. It has more bugs than a first year student's assignment. How is this company valued trillions of $? I just cannot understand that. It's pure crap. the worst email app I've ever used, and I used to host my own webmail...

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Je sens que Bluesky est pret pour des memes sur la causalité.

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

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 Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

The convolution is back in the office! (Yes, this is a straight sheet of paper)

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 01/10/2026

🚨 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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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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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 guerre

Double 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

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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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