I’m going to say something that’s unrelated to my career. I ran a marathon a month and a half ago! Yeah, it was hard, but also, it made me feel like, oh, I can do this. Wow, I’m so jealous. I registered for three marathons. I was never able to start one. I always got injured. No way. It’s very annoying. I’m still a bit injured now. My feet hurt, but other than that, I enjoyed it a lot. It was one of those things because I often doubt myself, and I’m like, this is too hard, I cannot do this, I cannot do that, and it’s one of those things where you’re like, I can actually do this. Four hours? 3:57. Tell me one thing that our readers can learn from your marathon. I think it’s this thing about not giving up. Knowing that you can do more than you think you can because I feel like it’s one of those things where you have to believe that you can do it. But yeah, as I said, I’m not that kind of person. Some people will say that life is already competitive enough. True, but I think it makes you more robust to everyday life challenges because it teaches you, yeah, I can do this. I can overcome this thing that I wasn’t able to do. I am sure that finishing a marathon makes you very, very high. Yeah, it does. I was laughing and crying at the same time. I was in this weird state. [Ivana laughs] How many CVPRs have you attended? This is my first one. I have never been to CVPR before. I normally go to ML conferences. How are you finding it? Yeah, I think it’s nice. It’s great. I don’t know how big it is, but from what I’ve heard, it’s bigger than NeurIPS. 11,500 this year, including online. Yeah, I’m excited for it. Let’s see. What did you learn from the workshop? That there are a lot of different opinions and ways people do prompting. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. In language, prompting is a welldefined thing, whereas here, it’s very much an open research problem open for discussion. It’s possibly a good thing. There might be good things coming out of it. Is there a lifelong dream or goal you hope to achieve before you retire? I want to work on a particular problem that matters right now. I’m 29 DAILY CVPR Wednesday “I think it’s this thing about not giving up. Knowing that you can do more than you think you can!” Ivana Balažević
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