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Sat in the garden and read this (admittedly short) book cover to cover.
Fab Sunday afternoon

VideoMat: Extracting PBR Materials from Video Diffusion Models
Jacob Munkberg, Zian Wang, Ruofan Liang, Tianchang Shen, Jon Hasselgren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09665

VideoMat: Extracting PBR Materials from Video Diffusion Models
We leverage finetuned video diffusion models, intrinsic decomposition of videos, and physically-based differentiable rendering to generate high quality materials for 3D models given a text prompt or a single image. We condition a video diffusion model to respect the input geometry and lighting condition. This model produces multiple views of a given 3D model with coherent material properties. Secondly, we use a recent model to extract intrinsics (base color, roughness, metallic) from the genera…

Visualizing a Terahertz Superfluid Plasmon in a Two-Dimensional Superconductor
Alexander von Hoegen, Tommy Tai, Clifford J. Allington, Matthew Yeung, Jacob Pettine, Marios H. Michael, Emil Vi\~nas Bostr\"om, Xiaomeng Cui, Kierstin Torres, Alexander E. Kossak, Byunghun Lee, Geoffrey S. D. Beach, Angel Rubio, Philip Kim, Nuh Gedik
https://

Visualizing a Terahertz Superfluid Plasmon in a Two-Dimensional Superconductor
The superconducting gap defines the fundamental energy scale for the emergence of dissipationless transport and collective phenomena in a superconductor. In layered high-temperature cuprate superconductors, where the Cooper pairs are confined to weakly coupled two-dimensional copper-oxygen planes, terahertz (THz) spectroscopy at sub-gap millielectronvolt energies has provided crucial insights into the collective superfluid response perpendicular to the superconducting layers. However, within th…

Ex-Cowboys star released on bond following arrest conencted to fatal crash https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/ex-dallas-cowboys-star-released-bond-following-arrest-conencted-fatal-crash

Which WRs Will Make Raiders' Roster? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tre-tucker-jack-bech-jakobi-meyers-john-spytek

Happy Jacob Geller Book day AND Nintendo Switch 2 day to all who celebrate! 🎉
What a day!

Jakby ktoś miał problem z sieciowkami na najnowszym ubuntu serwer to polecam sprawdzic kernel:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ source/linux/ bug/2098961
mi dopiero zadzialal downgrade na kernel 6.8.0-47-generic ... i sieciowka virtio dziala, a na e1…

GATE: Geometry-Aware Trained Encoding
Jakub Bok\v{s}ansk\'y, Daniel Meister, Carsten Benthin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08161 https://

GATE: Geometry-Aware Trained Encoding
The encoding of input parameters is one of the fundamental building blocks of neural network algorithms. Its goal is to map the input data to a higher-dimensional space, typically supported by trained feature vectors. The mapping is crucial for the efficiency and approximation quality of neural networks. We propose a novel geometry-aware encoding called GATE that stores feature vectors on the surface of triangular meshes. Our encoding is suitable for neural rendering-related algorithms, for exa…

Will Raiders’ Raheem Mostert Make Noise at Minicamp? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-raheem-mostert-pete-carroll-brock-bowers-jakobi-meyers

Raiders' Jakobi Meyers Sounds Off on Connection With Geno Smith https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jakobi-meyers-geno-smith-jack-bech-ashton-jeanty