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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Let’s save the energy for problems that actually need solving.

Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As an engineer and founder, my core job is filtering out noise to focus on real-world systems, actionable data, and meaningful human impact. Superficial rebranding doesn't spur innovation, lower mortgage rates, or train the next generation of engineers. It’s pure distraction.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That turns HOMES into SHAME (Superior, Huron, America, Michigan, Erie).

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For decades, students have learned the Great Lakes acronym: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior. Now, amidst real economic headwinds, shifting immigration policies, & critical challenges facing our workforce, time is being spent trying to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America."

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

From HOMES to SHAME—a lesson in signal vs. noise.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We’ve been encultured to think that deep networks are bottomless pits of appetite—if a model fails, just feed it more data. But the physics of production AI have changed. Throwing scale at a corner-case problem doesn't fix it. Read full blog: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

What’s the plan on the duration? I chair a morning session Friday!

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

What a nice idea…and a nice alternative to the oodles of “competitive happy hours”

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

How’s that for effing authenticity.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

With all due respect who the F are you to decide when someone else’s post is inauthentic. Step down.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Startup founders are told to keep board meetings fast and metric-driven. My take? It's a massive mistake. If you don't spend 60–120 minutes going deep on a single challenge, your advisors will just pattern-match based on unrelated companies. Detail matters. Read more: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Disagree and Commit is the hardest shift for technical founders who are used to being right. If you're still second-guessing a team decision 2 weeks later, you're the friction. My take: Conviction > Certainty. Read the full essay on navigating constructive confrontation: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

When we started @voxel51.bsky.social, I read nearly every startup book I could find. @johndoerr.bsky.social's "Measure What Matters" was a big one. My real take: For a small team, A North Star > 50 KRs. Read full essay: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

feel you! good luck. my 8yo too has been home the last two days. and just driving back from moving my 18yo out of her dorm for the summer! that time of year!

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Three months into the Technical Academic Founder (TAF) series. This week #15 is a Redux of the first 6 essays: a roadmap for starting, fundraising, and operating a startup with a specific emphasis on technical founders and academic founders. Full piece here: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

The TAF series provides experience-based discussion covering the essential pillars of starting, fundraising, and operating a startup specifically targeted to technical founders and academic founders. This week’s essay (#15) is a redux of the first six installments from earlier in 2026. This visual, generated by Gemini, is a mashup of the visual mastheads for each of the first six essays!

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The "Technical Academic Founders" series continues! Today: Why the term sheet is a 10-year marriage, not a research grant. My take: If you wouldn't want to trust them with your challenges, don't partner with them. Dilution is temporary; board seats are forever. Read: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

3D Computer Vision by Trucco and Verri. Everything you need and nothing you do not need. Unlike most CV books.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Brings some new thoughts to mind about the definition of bottleneck.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Faces! Faces! Faces! Check out our language-guided face modeling work to appear at CVPR 2026. Introduces method and a new 80-hours of synthetic facial motion paired with rich, natural language descriptions. Project page: songluchuan.github.io/TDMM-LM/

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Valuation isn’t a trophy—it’s a performance hurdle. Setting it too high today creates a "debt to the future" that leads to "hiring walls" and unreachable milestones later. New essay on managing valuation risks and pitfalls: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Mistakes! Mistakes! Mistakes! Check out our new CVPR 2026 paper the enriches this problem with new data, new challenges, and a new model for mistake understanding in egocentric videos! 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.20525 🌐 Project/Code/Data: yayuanli.github.io/MATT/

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I just finished Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. What a book! I can't stop thinking about one thing: what happens when you strip away every assumption about how a system should work? Highly recommend the book; and reflecting on its meaning about the systems in which you play, live, work, etc...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Valuation isn't a math problem; it's a narrative one. 📊 Culture shock: academics think about money in terms of costs; founders need to value a dream. My new weekly essay in my Technical Academic Founder series is live: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I loved the DC cherry blossoms so much I built some LEGO-blossoms for my desk. 🌸 The twist: Modern AI is exactly like this—a "bricolage" of fragmented tools and messy data. The "pipeline" is dead. Long live the random walk. Read why here: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Fair enough but isn’t it really just a iPad with a fix keyboard and mouse yet not touchscreen. Still think they could’ve done better.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Yet no touchscreen. Apple is competing against themselves with this new line. I think it was a terrible idea.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Yes absolutely. And how were they determined tho!!!

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The best products are "warped" by the teams that build them. Read about our Physical AI splinter effort that challenged the Voxel51 roadmap. A GTC-week anecdote and message: build a team that challenges you. Full essay: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Builders gonna build! Eric from @voxel51.bsky.social rolled out a new #FiftyOne plugin last week for interactive visualization of the hyperspectral imagery including transfer function control. Check out the plugin here with instructions on how to install it: github.com/ehofesmann/e...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The transition from Professor to CEO means moving from "periodic stress" to "constant pressure" The biggest shock? Not VCs. Not LPs. The weight of responsibility when employees exercised options. Dropped TAF #8: Read why every founder needs a "quitting" framework: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Amazing man. What's even more remarkable is that this "discipline" is meaningful for all aspects of life. Investing. Work. Relationships. Live with intention.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Check out BiMotion --- to appear at CVPR 2026. B-Spline based motion representation to overcome the discrete frame-by-frame bottleneck for text-based character generation. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.18873 Project page with code/data: wangmiaowei.github.io/BiMotion.git...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

My take: White-collar jobs aren't being replaced by GenAI; they are being redefined by high-stakes curation. Achieving a maintainable, professional result requires bridging the "Pareto Gap" with domain expertise. Your moat is knowing when to push back. Read the essay: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Elegant code doesn't pay the bills; solved pain points do 🛠️ In the lab, you are the customer. In a startup, it's a trap. TAF Series Week 7 covers finding your ICP (Ideal Customer Profile) & avoiding the "Mirror Fallacy" pulling from @voxel51.bsky.social Read more: medium.com/@jasoncorso/...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This whole conversation reminds me of my favorite book I read last year. Quit by Annie Duke. Be careful with that word courage.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Job postings links: Postdoc (Research Fellow) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... Technical Project Manager careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... Senior Software Engineer careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... Hourly (Student) forms.gle/3b1NLcRKD5Dn...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

- architect, build, and maintain stationary and mobile physical infrastructure - planning and conducting human factors user studies, possibly in the field - preparing papers, presentations, documentation, and videos for the work The job postings below have more details about requirements and such.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The work involves - developing, training models and learning approaches for the AI agent - architecting, implementing, and maintaining a services oriented codebase - curate datasets to support model development and capabilities assessment

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

MULTIPLE RESEARCH & ENGINEER POSITIONS OPEN We are opening up multiple new roles to support multiple funded projects at the University of Michigan. These projects focus on human-AI teams, physically-grounded CV, continually learning, RL, and AI agents.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Girl dad engineer geek moment of joy --- Barbie and sisters are Math wizards in our Barbie-land.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Super super grateful for all of the hard work the thousands of reviewers, hundreds of ACs, dozens of senior ACs, and the PCs did to make this review cycle possible. Thank you thank you.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Yes I told it I was driving at the beginning of the chat to avoid it spewing code when I could not read it.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

On a long drive last night, I was geeking out with Claude on how to evolve my orgmode configuration. Really dig the voice-to-voice dialogue. Two-plus hours into it, Claude seemed to get bored and basically told me "we're done." Is Anthropic business-logic or is a reward to get to the point...

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I’m afraid… Maybe 75% or 80% of papers at recent conferences however violate this idea. Perhaps this is what the recent edition of the findings workshop is designed to help with.

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

And how many prompt iterations?

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Jason Corso @jasoncorso.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Really impressed by @comfyui.bsky.social ComfyUI codebase and UX experience. Just stumbled into it for some video diffusion testing and was delighted: as a builder, it's always nice to see good work... Repo: github.com/Comfy-Org/Co...

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GitHub - Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface.

The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface. - Comfy-Org/ComfyUI

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