This is as good time to announce that I am *HIRING* students and postdocs to join my new lab at Columbia in 2025 (see link below). I would appreciate if you shared this announcement widely with prospective students, or email me directly if you're one :) silviasellan.com/posts/recruitm…

FFS. A reader-submitted pic, from rush hour this ayem: a City of Toronto truck in the bike lane around the corner from where a rider was killed after leaving a blocked lane

We are recruiting postdocs for 2024/25 Real AI @ UCSB ! You want to build next-gen artificial scientific intelligence?🤖 Apply to the UCSB Real AI Initiative! Deadline: Sept 15 Competitive salary Prime location for your future office 🌊 Yao Qin Haewon Jeong University of California

Ok fine you can have a little Jet Lag S11, as a treat

(In Jeopardy voice) What is my PhD degree?

Use caution when using Google translate

🔍Need efficient distance queries for 2D/3D meshes? Check out FCPW – a user-friendly library in C++ and Python with GPU support! 💻 Get started here: github.com/rohan-sawhney/… Also available on PyPI: pip install fcpw🐍

what a graph!

Recently learned about this amazing dataset... check it out! Columbia University lidar scan!

🚨 New Version of point-cloud-utils (0.31.0): - M1 Mac wheels finally build correctly and work (see screenshot) - Fix issue where remove_duplicate_vertices created degenerate faces - Save PLY colors as uint8 so they are visible in meshlab - Documentation updates

Increasingly, every single search function everywhere: oh? you want to search for something? you want to search for the characters you typed in the search field? no you don’t, you little idiot, you baby, you positive gruelling infant, you

BREAKING: Immigrant workers (international student graduates) have started a 24/7 protest at Queen & 410 in Brampton on Labour Day long weekend. After working essential jobs at the peak of the pandemic, they are now among 70,000+ workers across the country facing deportation as

The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning: "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…

Globe & Mail on Brampton’s 24/7 protest: Tens of thousands of international students who spent years finding a pathway to permanent residency are out of options "But Dr. Venkatesh, the law professor at the University of Windsor, believes that none of those changes will fix the

couldn’t help but notice that today’s apple event intro was shot in Toronto. bay station disguised as NYC and Humber bay bridge with the CN tower in the distance

The deadline for the ACM SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward 2025 is approaching soon! Two more weeks to submit a 3-minute video about your research.

Just a math FYI: The "average polling error" (i.e., the avg of the difference between any one single poll and an election result) and the "error of the polling average" (i.e., the difference between a given model's average of polls, and the result) are two very different things!!

genAI captcha??

Dear friends who write NSF GRFP rec letters, this year rec letters are due BEFORE the applications, so about 10 days earlier than normal on Oct. 11. Please don't let NSF's deadline change on rec letters screw over the applicants in your lives.

Just updated my Tips for CS Faculty Applications. Best of luck to everyone applying! yisongyue.medium.com/checklist-of-t…