It may be that everything planetary computation has done over the last 70 years was a warmup for what AI going to do over the next 10. A lot of institutions won't survive in any recognizable form. Unfortunately, militarized monotheistic eschatology probably will.

I'm really quite proud of this CHI PLAY 2023 paper exploring non-standing VR locomotion. I've done a lot of AI things in the past few years, and getting back to exergaming felt like coming home. Also won an honorable mention. Congrats to all co-authors! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

I think about the field of 3D human pose, shape, and motion estimation as having three phases. 1: Optimization. 2: Regression. 3: Reasoning. With #PoseGPT, we are just entering phase 3. I summarize the coming paradigm shift in this blog post: perceiving-systems.blog/en/news/third-…

Flowers are “giving up on” pollinators and evolving to be less attractive to them as insect numbers decline, researchers have said. theguardian.com/environment/20…

[ ARCHIVE ] The panel discussion on the theme "Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Humanity in Digital Age" at Ars Electronica is available online! 💻✨ Puneet Jain youtube.com/watch?v=WDxNJq…

A wheelchair belonging to Michael Faraday, designed by Thomas Twining III, ca. 1845, displayed at the Athenaeum Club, London. Photograph, ca. 1930. Wellcome Collection wellcomecollection.org/works/zu3f6vxf…

New episode of the podcast just released. Episode #197 New Atheists and cosmic purpose without God. As usual it’s a metamodernist steelmanning of different ideas. This one features ideas from Zizek, Thomas Nagel and Philip Goff. Philip Goff The book referenced from Goff is

Last night episode 198 dropped! Hooray. 😂 Closing in on 200 episodes of the podcast. Can’t thank you enough for making it all possible. This one is bringing what Zizek is doing a little more into focus. Hope you have a great week. 🙂 pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/trac…

Many people have no idea how these things work. For example, right now, as a Brazilian, I can't accept invitations to speak at conferences in Europe because my visa to work in the U.S. has expired. I am not illegal; I have a work contract with the University of California until

<Summer Research Internship at KIXLAB> I'm looking for undergrad research interns to join my research group (kixlab.org) this summer. Most projects this round are about human-AI interaction. Please share broadly! juhokim.com/2024-summer-in…

The Open Hardware Summit is what technology could look like if women, trans and queer folks, people of color, indigenous groups, and marginalized individuals were given their fair share of the technology spotlight. If you want techno-optimism this is what it looks like.

Depression may be contagious through a dysfunctional mirror neuron system. 🧵1/11

A few months ago a “friend” told me that he felt disabled people should be denied access to healthcare so “survival of the fittest” could happen faster. That people like me are the reasons he - a non disabled cishet white man - can’t get ahead. How did we get here? 🧵/1

A student reached out asking for advice on research directions in optimization, so I wrote a long response with pointers to interesting papers. I thought it'd be worth sharing it here too: 1. Adaptive optimization. There has been a lot going on in the last year, below are some

The University of Washington CS school is an unsafe environment for women, so as grad application season starts, please tell your students not to apply. There are at least 3 men in the systems lab that have sexually harassed numerous women and they continue to do so.

It is just so sad that the #NeurIPS2024 main conference ended with such a racist remark by a faculty when talking about ethics. How ironic! I also want to commend the Chinese student who spoke up right on spot. She was respectful, decent, and courageous. Her response was

Excited to share our new preprint! "Principal bundle geometry of qualia: Understanding the quality of consciousness from symmetry", co-first-authored with Ryota Kanai Ryota Kanai 🌙 and co-authored with Chanseok Lim. osf.io/agupq_v2 We propose that the relational structure

The Computer Science section of arXiv.org is now requiring prior peer review for Literature Surveys and Position Papers. Details in a new blog post

Become a Student Volunteer at #CHI2026! Would you like to attend CHI 2026, be part of the conference team, and have your registration fee waived by volunteering ~20 hours? Learn more and apply here: 🔗 chi2026.acm.org/2025/10/16/cal…