Dima Petrov
@3dpetrov.bsky.social
the only thing that is worse than ”the game awards” show is watching it
December 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
the only thing that is worse than ”the game awards” show is watching it
Great talk by Gael Varoquaux -- one of founders of modern open source scientific python infrastructure
speakerdeck.com/gaelvaroquau...
speakerdeck.com/gaelvaroquau...
Uncertainty in the LLM era - Science, more than scale
Today's AI narrative is anchored in scale, and models are far from textbook statistical modeling. And yet, the plague that are hallucination shows us th…
speakerdeck.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Great talk by Gael Varoquaux -- one of founders of modern open source scientific python infrastructure
speakerdeck.com/gaelvaroquau...
speakerdeck.com/gaelvaroquau...
A thing to understand about escalating peace talks is that in ~1.5 months duration of Russian-Ukraine war will exceed official length of WW2 in Russia.
If there won't be peace, Putin will have to face harsh comparison: why USSR defeated Hitler and Russia could not defeat Ukraine in this time span
If there won't be peace, Putin will have to face harsh comparison: why USSR defeated Hitler and Russia could not defeat Ukraine in this time span
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A thing to understand about escalating peace talks is that in ~1.5 months duration of Russian-Ukraine war will exceed official length of WW2 in Russia.
If there won't be peace, Putin will have to face harsh comparison: why USSR defeated Hitler and Russia could not defeat Ukraine in this time span
If there won't be peace, Putin will have to face harsh comparison: why USSR defeated Hitler and Russia could not defeat Ukraine in this time span
everyone is talking about Gemini 3 and SAM3 and I am still amazed by how good DINOv3 is
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
everyone is talking about Gemini 3 and SAM3 and I am still amazed by how good DINOv3 is
it has been a year since I have moved to UK from US and I regret approximately everything about this decision
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
it has been a year since I have moved to UK from US and I regret approximately everything about this decision
My hardest irrelevant take for today:
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 should win Best Score & Music at Game Awards.
Ghost of Yōtei should win best Audio Design.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 should win Best Score & Music at Game Awards.
Ghost of Yōtei should win best Audio Design.
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My hardest irrelevant take for today:
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 should win Best Score & Music at Game Awards.
Ghost of Yōtei should win best Audio Design.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 should win Best Score & Music at Game Awards.
Ghost of Yōtei should win best Audio Design.
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A plea for help. 🙏
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
A plea for help. 🙏
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor.
His story, contact and donor information can all be found on
iggyland.org
Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙
I wonder if EU is also set to not buying Russian gas and oil that fund this war (in 2024 19% months f EU gas was from Russia).
www.politico.eu/article/eu-v...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-v...
EU set to further tighten visa rules for Russians
Russians will generally only be eligible for single-entry visas once new rules take effect.
www.politico.eu
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I wonder if EU is also set to not buying Russian gas and oil that fund this war (in 2024 19% months f EU gas was from Russia).
www.politico.eu/article/eu-v...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-v...
one non-obvious advantage of llms with respect to search engines is that they can run search in non-english languages which gives you access to knowledge in non-western parts of the internet
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
one non-obvious advantage of llms with respect to search engines is that they can run search in non-english languages which gives you access to knowledge in non-western parts of the internet
dear sirs and madams, are you big-endians or little-endians?
November 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
dear sirs and madams, are you big-endians or little-endians?
since when conda needs user registration to download installer?
October 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
since when conda needs user registration to download installer?
It is amazing to observe how small developers are pressuring AAA teams:
Borderlands 4: made by ~1000 people, costs >$200 mln, needs high end hardware
Megabonk: solo dev, costed sack of potatoes, runs on potato machines.
Power of open but well-regulated platform (steam)
Borderlands 4: made by ~1000 people, costs >$200 mln, needs high end hardware
Megabonk: solo dev, costed sack of potatoes, runs on potato machines.
Power of open but well-regulated platform (steam)
October 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
It is amazing to observe how small developers are pressuring AAA teams:
Borderlands 4: made by ~1000 people, costs >$200 mln, needs high end hardware
Megabonk: solo dev, costed sack of potatoes, runs on potato machines.
Power of open but well-regulated platform (steam)
Borderlands 4: made by ~1000 people, costs >$200 mln, needs high end hardware
Megabonk: solo dev, costed sack of potatoes, runs on potato machines.
Power of open but well-regulated platform (steam)
maybe AGI meant 'advertising general intelligence' all along
October 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
maybe AGI meant 'advertising general intelligence' all along
In the new era of LLMs generating code, I remember blog post where author argued that instead of giving people large problems, it is better to give 10-15 snippets of code to read to get bet signal-to-noise ratio. I think this observation is very relevant these days
erikbern.com/2018/05/02/i...
erikbern.com/2018/05/02/i...
Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem
I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence in my ability to assess people. Let me just throw a couple of algorithm questions at a candidate an...
erikbern.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
In the new era of LLMs generating code, I remember blog post where author argued that instead of giving people large problems, it is better to give 10-15 snippets of code to read to get bet signal-to-noise ratio. I think this observation is very relevant these days
erikbern.com/2018/05/02/i...
erikbern.com/2018/05/02/i...
Not sure about AGI and such but vibe-coding solved my years long struggle of efficiently writing matplotlib code for complicated plot grids: you can give Claude data format and what you want (title formatting, axis tick sizes, legend fonts, etc) and it will give code that works out of the box.
August 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Not sure about AGI and such but vibe-coding solved my years long struggle of efficiently writing matplotlib code for complicated plot grids: you can give Claude data format and what you want (title formatting, axis tick sizes, legend fonts, etc) and it will give code that works out of the box.
Here is Leonid Bershidsky's reminiscence about impact of Derk Sauer on Russian independent journalism. Bershidsky was first editor-in-chief of Vedomosti -- independent Russian business daily built under FT and WSJ brands and principles.
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Find it out, write it down, get it out there. Leonid Bershidsky remembers pioneering journalist Derk Sauer — Meduza
Derk Sauer, who died in Amsterdam on Thursday at the age of 72, was a figure of rare consequence in the history of post-Soviet journalism. A former reporter and editor in the Netherlands, he departed ...
meduza.io
August 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Here is Leonid Bershidsky's reminiscence about impact of Derk Sauer on Russian independent journalism. Bershidsky was first editor-in-chief of Vedomosti -- independent Russian business daily built under FT and WSJ brands and principles.
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
I worked for Derk Sauer as an FMCG markets reporter in SmartMoney and even though I have never met him in person, the company and teams that he build deeply taught me a lot
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...
Derk Sauer, Champion of Free Press in a New Russia, Dies at 72
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I worked for Derk Sauer as an FMCG markets reporter in SmartMoney and even though I have never met him in person, the company and teams that he build deeply taught me a lot
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...
We have bought a printer and it was easier to install on Linux than on Mac.
End times are coming, that's for sure.
(or I am just bad at Mac stuff)
End times are coming, that's for sure.
(or I am just bad at Mac stuff)
July 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We have bought a printer and it was easier to install on Linux than on Mac.
End times are coming, that's for sure.
(or I am just bad at Mac stuff)
End times are coming, that's for sure.
(or I am just bad at Mac stuff)
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PM @mark-carney.bsky.social: If we want to keep hosting academic conferences in 🇨🇦, we need reasonable visitor visa wait times. The academic community is already exploring alternative host countries beyond the usual locations, and visa processes are becoming a crucial factor.
June 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
PM @mark-carney.bsky.social: If we want to keep hosting academic conferences in 🇨🇦, we need reasonable visitor visa wait times. The academic community is already exploring alternative host countries beyond the usual locations, and visa processes are becoming a crucial factor.
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Here's a new blog post about Non-Violent Communication (NVC), a useful technique for difficult conversations, and how some NVC ideas could be useful scientific and technical communication. I even make an analogy of NVC to the concept of "umwelt".
aaronhertzmann.com/2025/06/23/n...
aaronhertzmann.com/2025/06/23/n...
Non-Violent Communication, and Technical Communication
A few years ago, an idea called Non-Violent Communication (NVC) became important to how I communicate, especially in situations of conflict or potential conflict. When I’ve mentioned the NVC book to f...
aaronhertzmann.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Here's a new blog post about Non-Violent Communication (NVC), a useful technique for difficult conversations, and how some NVC ideas could be useful scientific and technical communication. I even make an analogy of NVC to the concept of "umwelt".
aaronhertzmann.com/2025/06/23/n...
aaronhertzmann.com/2025/06/23/n...
In my reviews, I always try to be about paper and not about authors and this post shows that there is still room for improvement
This new blog post describes some toxic peer reviews I've received in vision science, in terms of NVC. I discuss a simple rule that would fix the problem (already used at SIGGRAPH, CVPR): reviews should be about the paper, not the authors.
aaronhertzmann.com/2025/06/23/n...
aaronhertzmann.com/2025/06/23/n...
Violent Communication in Scientific Paper Reviews
In peer review for scientific and technical papers, peer reviews occasionally discuss the paper authors directly. In this post I argue that this behavior can be toxic: it harms the review process, the...
aaronhertzmann.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
In my reviews, I always try to be about paper and not about authors and this post shows that there is still room for improvement
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Your personalized CVPR 25 @cvprconference.bsky.social conference programs are now available for you!
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June 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Your personalized CVPR 25 @cvprconference.bsky.social conference programs are now available for you!
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I will most likely miss my first CVPR if my F1 visa won't get renewed in 1 week or so (been waiting for 3.5+ months).
It makes me so incredibly sad.
It makes me so incredibly sad.
May 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I will most likely miss my first CVPR if my F1 visa won't get renewed in 1 week or so (been waiting for 3.5+ months).
It makes me so incredibly sad.
It makes me so incredibly sad.
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Our Summer Geometry Initiative is more popular than ever, with a record # of applicants. But thanks to "2025 problems," SGI needs sponsors for it to survive past 2025. Please contact me if you're interested or have ideas!
April 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Our Summer Geometry Initiative is more popular than ever, with a record # of applicants. But thanks to "2025 problems," SGI needs sponsors for it to survive past 2025. Please contact me if you're interested or have ideas!