Lucas Beyer on Transformers: A Talk at the Zurich AI Academy

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

At Meta I led the Talent & Growth pillar’s IC Skills Growth track. As part of this I co-organised the Zurich AI Academy along with a brilliant colleague. In one of our most memorable events, we had the privilege of hosting Lucas Beyer for a talk on Transformers.

Lucas co-authored the Vision Transformer (ViT) paper, the MLP-Mixer, SigLIP, and PaliGemma. Previously at Google Brain, where much of this research took place, he went on to co-found OpenAI’s Zurich office. At the time of the talk he was working at Meta.

nvim-dap-image: Viewing Image Variables at Breakpoints

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been wanting an image viewer for Neovim’s debugger for a long time, so I built nvim-dap-image. Place your cursor on an image variable at a breakpoint, run :DapImageView, and the image appears in a floating window. Supports Python (OpenCV, PIL, NumPy, Matplotlib) and C++ (cv::Mat).

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Debugging computer vision and machine learning code in a debugger has one persistent gap: you can inspect a variable’s shape, dtype, and values, but you cannot see the image.

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Lucas Beyer on Transformers: A Talk at the Zurich AI Academy

nvim-dap-image: Viewing Image Variables at Breakpoints

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