If grad students truly were a drag on university finances, uni's would (a) massively fund-raise for grad programs and/or (b) shut them down. The fact that there's lots of infrastructure to enable/encourage bringing in more grants and hence grads means clearly the opposite.

This would not happen if you use quaternions.

oppenheimer this barbie that here is a one page RPG that means you dont have to see either, where you are Doomsday Barbara, destroyer of worlds

Farewell to Bram Moolenaar, genius behind the beloved Vim text editor. His legacy will endure through Vim's groundbreaking impact on coding. A visionary programmer and influential open-source advocate. Rest in peace, Bram. 🌹 #BramMoolenaar #Vim #OpenSource #RIP

Trever and Steve have made GREAT improvents to the project without damaging ot KISS soul. Bravo guys!

I’m excited to announce my IEEE VIS 2023 paper “EVM: Incorporating Model Checking into Exploratory Visual Analysis” with Ziyang Guo, Emily Qiao, Jeffrey Heer, Jessica Hullman arxiv.org/abs/2308.13024

.Fumeng Yang did an amazing job leading this study of how voters respond to forecast vis! But important to acknowledge that to really know “how such visuals affect emotions, trust, and voting intention” (causal claim) requires further study to estimate the no-vis counterfactual

Sometimes game design takes a while. #gamedev #IndieGameDev

I'm still intrigued with the idea of **visual proofs**. Just see it & understand it. This is one of the better ones. There must be some internet catalog of similar examples. Can anyone point me to it?

After years at the cutting edge of machine learning research, I finally solved AI safety 🤖✅ I am excited to announce: SafeGPT 🧷 The safest LLM is the one that refuses to respond to anything 🙊

You applied for a #PhD / postdoc position, but the professor does not reply to you. Why? As many students are concerned about the lack of response, let me try to explain this phenomenon point by point: ▫️ 1. In industry, recruiters and HR take care of the selection process.

I don't think the point of an adaptation is to retell it moment for moment, that just does a disservice to both art forms by pretending that they involve exactly the same skills, which obviously they do not

So how are these new #gaussian #splats in #gfx different from the splats of two decades ago?

Academia is mostly people telling you that you aren't good enough and sometimes there's a lunch

I miss #BeOS for some reason. macOS feels the closest, but BeOS was fun.

I'm not sad that I'll miss #IEEEVIS (I've missed one or two before); what I'm sad about is that we had a great online option and now we don't.

Redesigned my #gfx lighting notes. Now I start with a high level rendering equation and then show how we simplify simplify to get things like Phong and PBR. Given the recent move towards lighting realism, I think this is a good direction.

I won’t be able to follow #ieevis live next week, so hopefully I’ll see some good summaries. Been missing those.

Blog post + preprint motivating use of statistical decision theory/info economics & why you need to provide study participants sufficient information to optimize whenever goal is to evaluate human decisions or predictions. W/Alex Kale Jason‎ Hartline‎ statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/01/30/min…