Nicolas Schuler 🐧

ICSA said no — so we put it on arXiv 🙂 Our paper, Beyond Monolithic Models, argues for symbolic seams as a software-architecture grounded way to build composable neuro-symbolic systems. Would love to hear what you think.

@thsottiaux For some reason, the research capabilities and idea generation are not on par with other tools I have used. It tends to be overly focused and not research-like, even when asked specifically or instructed to do so. Also, better experiment management would be great.

What are we consistently getting wrong with codex that you wish we would improve / fix?

@AlpinDale Lately, I had a very similar problem and needed to rsync many files, which took ages! At the end, I opted to tar everything and then move. I will definitely try your tool out!

New project: parsync When transferring a very large number of small files between two machines, it's ~61% faster than rclone, and ~686% faster than rsync. Easier to setup than rsync (no need for both machines to have it), but with its resuming and checksum capabilities.

Procrastination fades the moment you see through its illusion. There is no “later.” There is only now. When you act in the now, you touch the flow of life itself. Begin, even with the smallest step, and you will discover movement reveals truths that thought alone can never reach.

🚨 ICCV 2025 Paper Alert 🚨 ➡️Paper Title: PERSONA: Personalized Whole-Body 3D Avatar with Pose-Driven Deformations from a Single Image 🌟Few pointers from the paper 🎯Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity representation. 🎯However, modeling pose-driven deformations, such as non-rigid cloth deformations, requires numerous pose-rich videos, which are costly and impractical to capture in daily life. 🎯The second, a diffusion-based approach, learns pose-driven deformations from large-scale in-the-wild videos but struggles with identity preservation and pose-dependent identity entanglement. 🎯Authors of this paper presented “PERSONA”, a framework that combines the strengths of both approaches to obtain a personalized 3D human avatar with pose-driven deformations from a single image. 🎯PERSONA leverages a diffusion-based approach to generate pose-rich videos from the input image and optimizes a 3D avatar based on them. 🎯To ensure high authenticity and sharp renderings across diverse poses, they introduced balanced sampling and geometry-weighted optimization. 🎯Balanced sampling oversamples the input image to mitigate identity shifts in diffusion-generated training videos. 🎯Geometry-weighted optimization prioritizes geometry constraints over image loss, preserving rendering quality in diverse poses. 🏢Organization: @UniversityKorea 🧙Paper Authors: Geonhee Sim, Gyeongsik Moon 📝 Read the Full Paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2508.09973 🗂️ Project Page: mks0601.github.io/PERSONA/ 🧑‍💻 Code: github.com/mks0601/PERSON… 🎥 Be sure to watch the attached Demo Video - Sound on 🔊🔊 Find this Valuable 💎 ? ♻️QT and teach your network something new Follow me 👣, @NaveenManwani17 , for the latest updates on Tech and AI-related news, insightful research papers, and exciting announcements.

If you have some spare time, I would appreciate your participation in the following survey surrounding the topic of Explainable AI (XAI) and the explainability of software in general: n-schuler.dev/survey No right or wrong answer.

When it's Sunday but there's no new House of the Dragon episode....

"Do you have a minute to hop on a video chat?" Me, in work from home goblin mode:

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Bocchi 😂

While loop without an exit condition in real life 😅

They can smell the pressure.

Lupin III voice actress Eiko Masuyama known for voicing Fujiko Mine, sadly passed away May 20th news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/328df…

SEASON 2 SOON! (4 DECADES) #Frieren #フリーレン

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me: opening file from the terminal in front of non-tech people non-tech people:

Newly discovered vuln in Apple M-series chips lets attackers extract secret keys from Macs. "The flaw—a side channel allowing end-to-end key extractions when Apple chips run...widely used cryptographic protocols—can’t be patched" arstechnica.com/security/2024/…