where do you live, this feels pretty city-dependent
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where do you live, this feels pretty city-dependent
buffy was right, apocalypses happen all the time
and were each of these conditions to modify it trained specifically, or is it totally general?
cool! what kind of model is it, if you’re allowed to share?
spent the past 5 days completely sucked into a project. I feel like I’m waking up out of a dream…
US photographer Margaret Bourke-White, Wind Tunnel Construction, Fort Peck Dam, Montana 1936 #WomensArt
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Vision is gen-NI ! ('The shape of things unseen', Adam Zeman)
someone brought a 3d printer to the hackathon 👀
Tiny skeletons? Sort of. Macro shot of snapdragon seeds. #macrophotography #skulls #botanical
🙋 How do Large Language Models internally process cultural knowledge? 🌐 Happy to share our new preprint "Entangled in Representations: Mechanistic Investigation of Cultural Biases in Large Language Models" 📃 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08879
life is more fun when you turn tasks into side quests 👾
what did you work on with your own projects?
beat the badge puzzle at my first def con 😤🦾 aka was handed a badge on thursday and did nothing else for the next 72 hours
smells like ai fall 🍂
better call saul is a hacker show
kiro spec mode helps with this too. it organizes everything in a way that it’s easy to understand the codebase as it grows.
you can just do things (derogatory)
really takes ‘you can just do things’ to heart
surveillance usually = gov or big tech but, a startup in sf has installed a network of cameras, partnering with businesses to place them. it’s something I hadn’t thought about - that renting property lets you surveil beyond it.
Lioness rhyton from Knossos Palace, Crete. Fabulous example of Minoan stone carving skills during the Bronze Age 3,500 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology
‘no sunset here’ #geometric #AbstractAug #abstract #eastcoastkin #abstractphotography #mobilephotography
🎉New preprint! "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA! Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.
what do I need to do for Netflix to make more ‘haunting of’s pls
MaterialPicker is a multi-modal generator using a Diffusion Transformer to create high-quality materials from photos and text prompts. It enables creators to extract and apply realistic textures under challenging conditions, transforming virtual design. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03225
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bye webflow! today I moved my blog over to www.leandra.dev built with t3 + tiptap rich text editor + supabase for storage #buildinpublic
🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #DecorativeArt #French #Japonisme #EdmondLachenal Edmond Lachenal (1855 - 1948) VASE WITH BATS AND MOON, ca. 1895 Glazed earthenware
This is insane. youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo?...
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I would have failed the marshmallow test but it’s only because I have a bias for action
Agents are AI systems that can: - Perceive their environment through various inputs - Make decisions based on those inputs - Take actions to accomplish specific goals - Learn and adapt their behavior over time from mastra.ai/course
really liking the agent definition in the mastra 101 course: "An agent is software with non-deterministic code that can make autonomous decisions based on inputs and environment rather than following fixed, predictable instructions every time." #buildinpublic #aiagents
🌌🛰️🔭Want to explore universal visual features? Check out our interactive demo of concepts learned from our #ICML2025 paper "Universal Sparse Autoencoders: Interpretable Cross-Model Concept Alignment". Come see our poster at 4pm on Tuesday in East Exhibition hall A-B, E-1208!
new stream: replicating cool relief effect from amazing immersive-g.com done by Immersive Garden ninjas, with #threejs and TSL shaders, video: youtube.com/live/t64VFYm...
taken around midnight ⛅️ the first few days in norway have been an adventure being part of a startup accelerator has really helped me focus and move through ideas more systematically. process: commit to one at a time and search for the ‘spike’, what could kill it on day 1? #buildinpublic
✈️ off to a cabin in Norway for the tech bros accelerator! A year building things alone has been tough, excited for this next step #buildinpublic
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t3 can be started with nextauth already installed and tanstack starter has an option to start with supabase auth
for what kind of project? I've been using t3 and tanstack starter
I’m a big believer in web apps > mobile apps unless there’s a good reason. Currently working on an app for girls in Afghanistan who want to learn English by watching tv shows, but often don’t have access to internet - pretty good reason #buildinpublic
This is so cool!
how does something like this even happen
Henry Orlik / Self Portrait / Coloured crayon and pencil #fineart #painting #surrealism #henryorlik #selfportrait
🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #Contemporary #American #NikkiMaloof Nikki Maloof (b. 1985) WHITE BAT IN THE HYDRANGEAS, 2018 Oil on canvas
Flower Head, 2012 by Kiki Smith,(bronze) #WomensArt
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Has a perfectly good .alt, but I want to add that the beads are translucent, lit from the right so they glow like pieces of the sky against a black background.
idk how it's possible that I have such a visceral 'I hate this' reaction to slack. it's not the features, not the interface. how do you even start to fix this as a product team?
me already but with mr robot (im insufferable)
every time I eat honeydew bojack reminds me it’s possible for people to change (slowly)
does anyone know why we haven’t bred tomatoes to taste better? they can, I’ve had sweet garden-grown tomatoes
Harmony merges vision-language training and self-supervised learning, achieving strong results on dense tasks with web-scraped data. It outperforms CLIP and SLIP, showing better performance in zero-shot classification and segmentation across various benchmarks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14239
Die Stimmung, die von der Baukunst ausgeht, kommt dem Effekt der Musik nahe. ▪️Goethe
snapshots from the #CVPR2025 art gallery. thanks @elluba.bsky.social for organizing a great exhibit, so excited to have been included. explore the full gallery @ thecvf-art.com
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Rose garden https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/rose-garden-1920
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7.5 30x40" Acrylic/oil pastel Gallery canvas #earthquake #blueskyart #painter #surreal #abstract #cityscape #eastcoastkin
#FishFriday 🐟: Shiro Kasamatsu (笠松 紫浪 Kasamatsu Shirō) (Japan, 1898-1991) Waves of Petals, 1956 Color woodblock print, oban size, image 36.9 * 24.7 cm (14.5 * 9.7 in) nipponprints.com/kasamatsu-sh... #JapaneseArt
when the apocalypse comes, I’ll find a projector and generator and put on fight club. sit there with anyone interested and remember when we were worried about our furniture (but not in a gross american beauty way I’m not going out to that)
(3) This one isn’t even online yet (👀), but GaussianTeller from UvA + Bosch is 🔥 They generate 3D Gaussian splats natively (not starting with an image) using a structured 3D diffusion prior. Fast, editable, and enables text-to-style downstream edits.
(2) Stanford’s CANOR learns to rig any deformable object without category-specific models or skeletons. It uses spatial “blobs” to represent pose in a low-dim way. Edit the blobs, animate the object. No manual rigging. www.guangzhaohe.com/canor/ 👇
a thread of the most exciting things I saw on #CVPR2025 day 1! (1) TerraMesh from IBM + ESA It’s a massive, multimodal dataset for Earth foundation models. Think ImageNet, but for the planet. 9M+ globally aligned image patches combining radar, optical, elevation, vegetation, and land use. 👇
the dream 😭
A 2,000 year-old Roman silver wine cup from Pompeii. Decorated in relief with olive branches. From the House of Menander. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology
I U N S E E N S I L E N C E I A face emerges in thick white strokes, unrecognizable yet familiar. A ghost of identity blurred by noise, time, and emotion. - The Asylum Art - Art and wordsby Yves #AbstractExpressionism #MonochromeArt #EmotionalArt #art #abstract #blueskyart #abstractart
If art is not to become solely an expression of the ego, the artist should sit behind the work of art rather than in front of it, this is paradoxically revealed in the self-portrait practice, in which the subject and the practitioner are at the same space, ... 3/5
Experimental animation.
Insect exodus at 10:22pm 23 May 2025 Flight trails video of them leaving the plants and heading to parts unknown. They're illuminated by the camera IR array.
Researchers present an analytic theory ex- https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292
an unrolled panopticon?
I would 100% play this game
This is also the first time I have see a scientific use of multicolor filament. The three colors in this filament end up identifying facets of the teeth that face in the same direction. 🧪
Printouts of fossils teeth for Isiah Newbins. These fossils are about the size of a sesame seed. Being able to hold them and compare shapes is helpful in thinking about variation and function. 🧪
dayss?
“We've Underestimated Older Brains” — The World as You’ll Know It: The Future Of Aging, by Carl Zimmer:
yes! I spent a month building these out for myself and publishing the code at each step - bsky.app/hashtag/30da... we’re there, it just takes a little bit of setup, especially if you want everything running locally
we have this now, file access is the setup example for mcp on claude desktop
the biggest problem with AI agents? getting people to actually use them. solution: build where conversations already happen → WhatsApp (2.9B users) complete guide with code for both prototyping and production deployment 👇 www.leandratejedor.com/post/ai-agen... #buildinpublic #aiagents
"rainbow cd flying flying through space" icon to install new printer software
#naturemorte #stilllife #aquarelle#watercolor #encre#ink
Not Gaussian or NeRF! SuperDec rocks 3D scenes with superquadrics—compact, clever, and oh-so-smooth! This method uses transformer-based nets to predict superquadric params and soft segmentation, then refines them with Levenberg–Marquardt optimization.
SERAPHIM First time using this former, and it’s not what o expected. I don’t think I’ll add much colour to this, but I won’t leave it completely unglazed. I prefer it horizontally oriented, but I’ll add a number of lugs for other options. #sculpture #porcelain #clay #ceramic #coral #MarineLife
Girl on a space hopper, 1971, Byker series, Newwcastle, UK , by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen #womensart #FridayFeeling
which of these motivates you the most? 5 things, all a bit different
This work was done in collaboration with Jeff Clune’s lab at UBC, and led by his PhD students Jenny Zhang and Shengran Hu, together with Cong Lu and Robert Lange. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954 Code: github.com/jennyzzt/dgm
#PinkFlamingoDay 🦩: “Miss Flamingo” easy chair, 2017 Designed by Alexis Verstraeten & Pauline Montironi (Belgium) Vintage chrome plated steel base by Paul Paulin 1960's, upholstered w/white Icelandic sheepskin & pink stuffed plush #flamingos H ca 95cm seat H ca 38cm www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Miss...
💀💀💀 yes omg the standing in doorways. why is this a geographic feature, this isn’t a problem for me on the east coast
I excel at excel (not really)
did some #buildinpublic irl tonight - gave a last minute lightning talk on building daily agents. totally unplanned, only had about 10 mins to prepare, very awesome experience
cc @witko.bsky.social 😊
multi modality modelities
why do people walk so slowly in the bay area I can’t live like this
