Christian Wolf

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Principal Scientist at @NaverLabsEurope, Lead of "Spatial AI" team. AI for Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning. Austrian living in France.

https://chriswolfvision.github.io/www

This is the Confluence Museum in Lyon, France, built in 2014, which has an interesting geometric shape. The Austrian architects from Coop Himmelblau missed an occasion to integrate a Klein Bottle ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_des_Confluences

Musée des Confluences - Wikipedia

I admit that I did not know that burning 1 liter of petrol (=0.79kg) creates 2.3 kg of CO2. That's almost 3x it's own weight. That's pretty shocking.
Reinforcement learning vs. imitation learning.
GPT-4 will be able to walk on water. You heard it here first.

Very interesting and provocative article (not sure I agree with conclusions, but they are worth considering seriously).

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267976-the-end-of-programming/fulltext#comments

The End of Programming

The end of classical computer science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit.

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

Saw "Avatar 2" yesterday: I am unsure whether this is an animated or live action movie.

Elisabeth Warren writes to Tesla Chair:

“This use of Tesla employees raises obvious questions about whether Mr. Musk is appropriating resources from a publicly traded firm, Tesla, to benefit his own private company, Twitter,” Warren wrote, adding that it could violate Musk’s “legal duty of loyalty to Tesla.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/19/sen-warren-warns-tesla-board-about-musk-conflicts-of-interest-with-twitter.html

Sen. Warren warns Tesla chair that Musk and the board may have failed in legal duties since Musk bought Twitter

Warren asked the Tesla board about alleged misappropriation of Tesla resources and conflicts of interest resulting from Musk's purchase of Twitter.

CNBC
PhD defense of Samuel Felton at Inria Rennes, France, supervised by Elisa Fromont and Eric Marchand, on Visual Servoeing in deep latent space. Great work, congrats to the new Dr.!
A group of protestors painted a street mural that reads "Oligarchy" in front of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters today.