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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The world is always more complicated that the model www.seti.org/news/why-set... @nadiadrake.bsky.social: I'd love to hear your thoughts on this?!

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The Hurricane in Jamaica is already causing severe flooding (click through to see the live feed) www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/ja...

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【LIVE】 Live Cam Spanish Town - Flat Bridge | SkylineWebcams

View over the Flat Bridge in Spanish Town, Jamaica Live cam

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I'm excited to share that GWU is hosting a World Bank Symposium on AI & the Future of Human Capital. For those not steeped in the development, Human Capital == people’s skills, knowledge, and health www.worldbank.org/en/events/20... Some flexibility in the deadline is likely to be possible.

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AI & the Future of Human Capital in the Global South: A World Bank-George Washington University Knowledge Symposium

How AI-driven innovations can help address critical human development challenges in low- and middle-income countries. Call for research papers: Submissions due July 18

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I'm an Area Chair for NeurIPS this year. I spent most of today reviewing all the reviews for my 13 assigned papers to highlight reviews that were insufficient. There were a few reviews that were incredibly shallow and some had hallmarks of GPT, and this was a chance to reject those. (1/4)

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Question: Does anyone have a pre-computed faiss indices for large datasets (LAION 2B, 5B or similar) that have been used to train CLIP-like models? The one below doesn't seem to work anymore

knn5.laion.ai

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I’m curious of any of my friends are at the AI expo in DC today? I’ll be hanging around the George Washington University Trustworthy AI booth for some of the day. Happy to have coffee with anyone!

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The kite festival is one of the best days in DC

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I'm lucky to get to work on important problems with some great researchers; @astylianou.bsky.social is giving a talk about our work on image search for sex trafficking investigations tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon (link below)

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The International Conference on Computational Imaging (ICCP) is coming to my hometown, #Toronto! Excited to serve as a social media co-chair for such a fantastic event. With an incredible organizing committee and an amazing city to host, how could I say no?

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

one of the most insane webcam rainbow images I've ever seen, from (volcview.wr.usgs.gov/ashcam-api/i..., but that might be different now!)

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Birds (and bugs!) flying over DC last night

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Cool talk at the AI Aspirations event at the old Newseum

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

A lazy afternoon in Washington DC, in the style of Xavi Bou

An "ornithography" style composite picture showing trajectories of birds flying in the sky.

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

My favorite tree in the field by the elementary school close to my house. #gloverPark

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

The prompt was not “a bird on a floating branch”

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

I'm excited to be heading today to NeurIPS. If you're there and want to chat, drop me a note! If you're interested in faculty openings at GWU this year, also drop me a note!

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Real estate options are limited in the DC area

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

TIL that NOAA operates hundreds of buoycams that constantly take panoramic images.

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

what happens to retracted papers in regards to LLM training corpuses? do they get ignored, or do gpt4 et al treat them like any other "trustworthy" high profile CNS publication? 🤔 anybody know?

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Robert Pless @pless.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

All creatures enjoy sunsets?

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karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social · 06/05/2023

BlueSky firehose in real time cool firesky.tv

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