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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Keeping up with AI hype, one throwback movie meme at a time 🎬🤖

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

7/ FWIW there's a more accessible version of my view on the topic here in @noemamag.com noemamag.com/the-mytholog..., and also a short TED talk from earlier this year www.ted.com/talks/anil_s...

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The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA

Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@askerlee.bsky.social "The army of auto-research is on the way. Peer review will be shattered if we don't block them (screenshot is translated from a Chinese rednote post)"

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@niessner.bsky.social Analysis of authorship in CV, ML, Graphics since 2006. Unroll thread 👇🏼 threadreaderapp.com/thread/21038... The observations seems fine. Yet, ❓ Am I the only one who prefers that anyone doing such claims provide the data or code (data analysis: scraping & ETLs)?

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yep! The best sport/hobby for disconnecting myself that I've ever practiced it's scuba diving 🤿 I block any unrelated thought by remembering that there are almost zero chances for me to be in the same spot in the same state (Heraclitus mindset 🧠🧘🏽)

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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Unpopular take (mostly self-criticism): we need to stop waisting our time rebuilding incumbent social media apps on #atproto This will only convert a fraction of the users this ecosystem needs. We need to build new, interoperable experiences.

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@ec.europa.eu 💔🤕 once someone told me: "Have you ever thought that if your life would be easier as asylum immigrant than 'expat'?"

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Eric Brachmann @ericbrachmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What fresh hell is this? Scholar inbox now comes with 2 min podcasts of each paper... I randomly choose two relocalization papers and they both started with "Imagine navigating a large, dark warehouse" ... No - I do not want to imagine this. Was this trained on YouTube slasher flicks? Why "dark"?!

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EuroHPC Joint Undertaking @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The EU–LAC Supercomputing Network for AI will strengthen cooperation between #EU ➕ #LatinAmerica ➕ #Caribbean in 📈 skills 🖇️ connecting #HPC 💻 tackle shared challenges 🔗link.europa.eu/6pC6Yd The kick-off panel took place at @carlaconf.bsky.social 📹watch the recording 👉 youtu.be/JXneY2StF2M

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yo, anyone else getting déjà vu from all this AI hype? 👀

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

More context in X/Twitter x.com/j_dekoninck/...

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On another episode of Researchers outside their habitat 🥼👨🏽‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬👩🏼‍💻

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 20/09/2026

I'm not sure I agree with @giorgio.gilest.ro's logic that this ends up with technofeudalism. Yes LLM-written papers are flooding journals, but that's because journals are and always were a bad tool for filtering for insight. Our response should be to try something different.

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Amazing little feature on bsky -- automatic indicator of number tweets in the thread.

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@csprofkgd.bsky.social with a hypothetical & raising awareness based on a concern, as academics often do. Then, @michael-j-black.bsky.social strengthen the hypothesis Yet, still NO solution offered 😥. So, some academics are great trouble makers 😉

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm awaiting to hear that collaborators/AC claiming "His reviews are random" My next review: print & fed it to my power-efficient intelligent assistant👇🏼

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Claas Voelcker @cvoelcker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Why am I not getting cited?!" Well, when was the last time you read a paper that didn't come from a top 4 industry or academia lab?

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

😂 good one! I wasn't not allowed to play Ouija, but an adult member of my family* did. Didn't talk about it as it's taboo in 🇨🇴. I grewp up & attended catholic schools. Perhaps that's another reason that I'm open-minded about AI 😜 * Interpret it in the extended family sense, 🇨🇴 one.

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nice vibe but my BREXIT experience tells me that 🇨🇦🤝🏻🇪🇺 is the classic rimbombastic policital announcement w/o much effect (in GDP, capital markets, etc). Hope to be wrong, trusting status quo politicians is more naive than being religious.

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

😂 😂x2 Finding this here and not in X. Elon would repost it hinting that Grok (truth seeker AI) could have an edge

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In the age of (AI) knowledge abundance, what should PhD students & academics in AI & other active fields do? “Human skills”: presenting, persuasive writing, marketing & selling. 1️⃣ 🚪 Quit before it’s too late 2️⃣ 💪🏼 Double down on human skills 3️⃣ 💸 Delegate end-to-end to AI 4️⃣ 💬 Other 📊 Show results

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NeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NeurIPS is approaching and registration for the Paris site will be opened on Monday Sept 14th, Anywhere on Earth. Registration happens at neurips.cc, each of the 3 sites has its own registration process. We'll be happy to see you in Paris!

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On another episode of scientists outside their habitat

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@jasoncorso.bsky.social "Apple’s iPhone Duo Does this mean the vertical format for media, apps, etc is as good as dead? I think Apple may have that much power! Do you?" Me: Never fell for the foldable, even with my former employer's discount tag. Too niche back then.

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

💯 Ask your fav LLM to make it more poetic & print it for your lab

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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy: We are introducing changes in the @ReviewAcl reviewing and submissions. The changes will cap authors and introduce changes in the reviewing to keep our community sustainable. #NLProc #NLP

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@michael-j-black.bsky.social “What is the role of academic computer vision research in the age of increasingly powerful large models? …” #ECCV2026 🇸🇪

What is the role of academic computer vision research in the age of increasingly powerful large models? Is GPT-6 Astra a step change? How can a researcher have an impact today in academia?

These are the questions I ask myself as I head off to ECCV 2026, a conference I’ve attended since 1992. One of my papers this year is VIGA, a method that takes an image as input and outputs a 3D Blender scene that represents that image. This is a classical inverse-graphics task and VIGA was the first method to solve it using an agentic approach.

The idea is now several years old and the first version of the paper was rejected. This delayed publication significantly. After it was accepted at ECCV, it was quickly surpassed by people using Claude Code for the same purpose. Today GPT-6 Astra blows away all previous results. But we still head off to ECCV to tell the community about our invention that is now fully out of date.

The way academic work often progresses is that one reads recent papers, notices that they have limitations, comes up with a new idea, explores this, publishes it, etc. Any published paper I read today is based on ideas that are at least a year old. And those ideas were based on the literature of the time, which was also a year old. That means that any paper I see at ECCV is likely two years out of date. In AI today, two years means your work is likely irrelevant.

At CVPR this summer I noticed that many authors have not gotten the message. They continue to work on “old” problems that have a long history. This history is based on assumptions about how the “vision problem” will be “solved”. The truth is that it is being solved in a very different way and many of these problems are no longer relevant. Another group of papers focuses on very niche problems where large models likely fail because of insufficient data or lack of business interest. The impactful papers were largely from industry and had long author lists and massive data+compute behind them. These papers were also out of data, describing systems that had been released months before, but at least they served to provide the community with more complete documentation and analysis of commercial systems.

So what should academics do? First, we need to put aside the tools we’ve used for years and start from scratch. Every project should start by trying really hard to solve the problem with existing tools. I would like to see every paper begin with a detailed experimental analysis of how existing models perform and why they fail (if they do). This gives the kind of insight we need today. Then, assuming current models fail, the solution should provide some fundamental insight that will outlive the next release of such models.

Reviewers today still focus on technical novelty. This pushes people to focus on tweaking architectures rather than clearly moving the field forward. Papers need to be judged based on their novel insight and not their novel technical contribution. This is a real shift in thinking but it focuses us on what matters - progress of the field.

If we want there to be a “field” of computer vision, then it can’t become a marginal backwater, focusing on esoteric problems. If you haven’t tried using Astra (or whatever comes next) to solve your problem, then you have not done your homework. This omission should be seen as negatively as not having a previous work section.

Concretely, I think papers should include a new section analogous to “Related Work” where that related work is current models and how they perform on the task. Reviewers should start asking for this and expecting authors to be able to articulate their insights about the limitations of existing large models.

I'm interested in your thoughts

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The NeurIPS 2026 August Newsletter is now available on our blog: blog.neurips.cc/2026/09/05/n... If you would like to receive these newsletters directly by email, please subscribe to the newsletter mailing list under your profile: neurips.cc/Profile/subs...

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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

If Mark is too expensive, I'll happily review your research plan for the low price of 60000€ per hour only, billed by chunks of 15 minutes. I accept Bitcoin.

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Social media reality check: “We got 7 papers accepted!” 🤔 Stay humble 😉

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Giorgos Tolias @gtolias.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

CV4GOOD — Computer Vision for Humanitarian Action ECCV 2026 workshop, first edition. Malmö, Tuesday 8 September, 14:00 to 18:00. Room Malmömässan D2 If you work on computer vision and care about where it can do good, come join us. cv4good.thegoodailab.org @eccv.bsky.social #ECCV2026

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CV4GOOD — Computer Vision for Humanitarian Action

ECCV 2026 workshop in Malmö, Sweden on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, pairing CV researchers with humanitarian practitioners from MSF.

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Interactive demo: csprofkgd.github.io/eigenfaces-l...

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Eigenfaces

Face It: It’s Just Linear Algebra

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

With NeurIPS 2026 registrations now open, hotel and childcare reservations are also available. 🏨 Book accommodations at official group rates across all three conference locations: neurips.cc/Conferences/... 🧸 Reserve childcare: neurips.cc/Conferences/...

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Hotel Information 2026

Official group hotel rates for NeurIPS 2026 attendees and exhibiting sponsors across all three conference locations.

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Keunhong Park @keunhong.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Atlas is live! A spatial foundation model, trained in-house from scratch. After shipping RTFM last year, I was convinced a single camera-conditioned auto-regressive model could unify most spatial generation tasks. Atlas is that bet at scale. The core idea👇

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Mert Bulent Sariyildiz @mbsariyildiz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🧐 Can you distill knowledge from 4 vision teachers into one student using ZERO real images? 🥳 Turns out: YES, and surprisingly well. 📣 Our ECCV 2026 paper "IDeaL" closes most of the gap with real-image distillation, using optimized structured noise.

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Luba Elliott @elluba.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our ECCV Art Gallery is now online 🥳 Check out the 52 accepted works, 12 spotlights and plan your schedule for the onsite gallery, tours and panels at #ECCV2026 next week eccv-art-26.github.io Curated with Ioannis Siglidis for @eccv.bsky.social #creativeAI #ECCVArt

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Me: Saint Marketing 🔔 Audience: Pray for the AI researchers 🙏🏼 Yet another instance supporting that Vaswani et. title was "(As AI Researcher,) Attention is..."

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Majoring in CS used to mean a decent job (might still). CS was never meant to be about just programming. CS departments let students think that anyway because money. CS enrollments are dropping. That might be a good thing* (disclosure: I’m a CS professor). Here’s one way things might unfold…

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NeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The first call for NeurIPS Paris 2026 volunteers is open! We are seeking for PhD students and postdocs to assit during the conference in exchange for complimentary registration. Application form: forms.gle/HGDUzS7y7yvq... 1st call deadline: September 10th

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European Conference on Computer Vision #ECCV2026 @eccv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Traveling from Copenhagen to Malmo for #ECCV2026? The Skånetrafik app is a convenient way to get a ticket for the train between Copenhagen and Hyllie. The trip costs about €14 and takes around 12 min. iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/sk%C3... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In the age of LLMs/AI-Agents, ppl unwilling to engage in digital conversations are bound to local collaboration. For remote collaborations, - run away from them. - Hedge yourself against their potential accountability & reliability. Cost: Time Emoji reaction: <2 mins Reply a msg: 2-5 mins. ... 😠

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@thomwolf.bsky.social claimed to have crossed the $1M sales mark! Would @pollenrobotics.bsky.social have done it w/o @hf.co (platform, brand, etc.)? Genuine Q

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Truly, end of an era.

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I need to know, does microduck's mouth, of @hf.co, have the strength to pick up socks? Legos? Because I dream of having something that picks up my kid's toys.

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European Conference on Computer Vision #ECCV2026 @eccv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Are you attending #ECCV2026? Consider purchasing the discounted train ticket. It’s an option available on your ECCV registration form. The deadline to purchase is August 28th!

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

@hirokatukataoka.bsky.social "'Visual General Intelligence: A White Paper' is now on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2608.25924 We've discussed: - What is Visual Intelligence? - Can we develop it toward General Intelligence (VGI)? In the VGI white paper, we bring together diverse… [full post on Lea]

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Victor Escorcia @escorciav.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Another episode of researchers outside the lab

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