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  1. Zero hearing protection, flying on rotorcraft with their avatar heads poking out. The antagonist team is going to lose their hearing by the end of the film. #AvatarWayOfTheWater

  2. Humanity in #AvatarWayOfTheWater is invasive, destructive, inconsiderate, and selfish, except for our few protagonists. It's not a terrible reflection of our society as it stands now, but they had the chance to build a better future for your fictional world and model it for today's audiences. And they blew it.

  3. I had the honor of listening to professional book reviewer Paul Goat Allen talk last week about how Golden Age scifi looked ahead to a bright future, and recent scifi doesn't really. (Hopepunk/solarpunk notwithstanding, I assume.) #AvatarWayOfTheWater is a great example.

  4. I am so sick of near-future space exploration/colonization in which exploration is the problem and humans are utter ducks about it. #AvatarWayOfTheWater #IntentionalTypos

  5. Now that I've graduated, I have time to watch #AvatarWayOfTheWater , and I have thoughts. (Thread)

  6. Thinking today about aerospace vs. writing. Like, flight is important. It means the world to many people everyday.

    But the way a story can touch a person. The feeling that there's someone out there grappling with the same thing you are, and seeing a character either find a solution or a way to live with it... that's so much more immediate and intimate in its impact.

    #careers #WritingMatters #FictionIsVital

  7. Did you miss #ECCV2022 & #DIRA2022? Did you go, but want to relive the experience?

    Thanks to the Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group blog for posting my trip report that covers keynotes, some interesting papers, and my work at #ECCV2022 & the #DIRA2022 workshop.

    ws-dl.blogspot.com/2022/12/202

    #ComputerVision #InformationRetrieval #ComputerScience #Conference

  8. #ECCV2022 #DIRA2022 Many reasons exist for users to conduct image searches: protecting intellectual property, building datasets, providing evidence, or justifying funding. That abstract images are at a disadvantage hurts users leveraging search engines for these use cases.

  9. #ECCV2022 #DIRA2022 Google and Yandex perform better with natural images than with abstract ones achieving a difference in retrievability as high as 54% between images in these categories. These results indicate a clear difference in capability among search engines.

  10. Because Wikipedia is well indexed by search engines, we acquired abstract (diagrams) and natural (photos) images from Wikimedia Commons. We submitted these 380 images to each search engine and recorded how often the search engine returned the same image back. #ECCV2022 #DIRA2022

  11. The major search engines Baidu, Bing, Google, and Yandex support "reverse image search" -- where the user can upload an image and view pages that contain that image or pages that have similar images. #ECCV2022 #DIRA2022

  12. Our preprint of "Abstract Images Have Different Levels of Retrievability Per Reverse Image Search Engine" from at #ECCV2022 #DIRA2022 is available. We find Google's and Yandex's reverse image search engines favor finding natural images over abstract ones.

    Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2211.02115