I would love a math linter, like a grammar checker. It would flag problems like symbols that are undefined, used inconsistently, or missing (like integral limits). All built into LaTeX, so nobody would send out a paper with those mistakes. Plus it could make a glossary.

Me: I got a copy of Jim Blinn's book. Colleague: Jim Blinn? Doesn't sound like a real person. We work in #VFX

Just in case you were not disgusted by crypo currencies so far

Going to bed after coding till 1:30am. I already dread what morning-me will have to say about the code.

Today in shitty machine learning startups, this company claims to predict IQ, personality, and violent tendencies by applying deep learning to facial features and bone structure. That's phrenology. You just made the ML equivalent of a racist uncle.

Good luck with that!

This is just unbelievable. What a human ❤️

Dear fellow parents, If you're still out there, shopping for your girls, please contemplate on the wisdom of SMBC Comics before you make your final decision. smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-05-…

SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 – Technical Papers Trailer is available here: youtu.be/lVi9SdVGbJk

Working on my Android hobbi project is so relaxing compared to simulation: if I don't know something, I just Google it, and immediately get 584,000 hits.

Great story about proof and progress in mathematics—and a reminder to not write off good intuition even if it doesn't yet come with a rigorous proof.

Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar, on whether he believes in retrospect it was worth doing a PhD: "It's not so much the knowledge, but that you have to push through and do it. That was one of the most valuable processes of my life." #Pixar ACM SIGGRAPH Association for Computing Machinery

This ICE action against students on F-1 visas is incredibly damaging in many ways. It hurts U.S. competitiveness, damages our world-class universities, and, if enacted, will disrupt the scholarly study of millions of the brightest students from around the world.

Many new researchers don't know that the unofficial table of contents for each SIGGRAPH is here: kesen.realtimerendering.com/sig2020.html

I still remember I marveled at how simple and elegant the Lucas-Kanade tracker is when I first learned about it as a grad student. Here is a fun story about it. "Newness itself is not a virtue, usefulness is." - Takeo Kanade

4 images, from the same height and cropped area, showing just 30 minutes of time. 4th image - the eruption cloud is now 350 kilometres (218 miles) in diameter. #Tonga #Eruption #Volcano #HimawariSatellite WeatherWatch.co.nz

Nice talk Fangwei! #DWA #OPENVDB #SIGGRAPH2014

The fremen are leaving the room at the @rbridson talk. Apparently they expected an other kind of p-refinement. #SIGGRAPH2014