Succession going smoothly

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How aliens see Earth

After 12+ yrs of work (with longtime help from Dave Gouge), I presented with my friend Steve May (who did a lot of work to make it happen) the very first VES Emerging Technology Award this week! Finally VFX technologists get recognized with and by their peers! VisualEffectsSociety

👀Two early papers find the effects of generative AI on knowledge work are completely unprecedented in modern history Separate studies of both writers and programmers find 50% increases in productivity with AI, and higher performance and satisfaction. And this is just the start.

Someday an animated movie has to be nominated for best production design. What we do is NO different than what is done in live action. (Climbs down off soapbox) #productiondesign #animationiscinema

In Paris, a new “Everything Is Fine” gif is born x.com/marjo_beb/stat…

What a simple toy could tell the past about their future:

This! 👇Focus on your thing and keep an eye on AI and how it will impact your field and how you can adapt it, rather than dropping everything and jumping 3 (hallucinated) feet in!!!

This is a letter Feynman wrote to a former student who wrote congratulating him for the Nobel. I’ve posted it before but I really find it worth it to read especially as a student or early stage research person.

I hit a bug in the Attention formula that’s been overlooked for 8+ years. All Transformer models (GPT, LLaMA, etc) are affected. Researchers isolated the bug last month – but they missed a simple solution… Why LLM designers should stop using Softmax 👇 evanmiller.org/attention-is-o…

At DigiPro 2023, we’ll present Magenta Green Screen, a new compositing technique designed to record accurate alpha channels in an LED volume and to collect ground truth training data for natural image matting algorithms. See you there and @SIGGRAPH! dmsm.github.io/magenta-green-…

LOL 😂 #CalvinandHobbes

A series of scary graphs about how temperature anomalies for 2023 compare to other years. Yikes. 📈

Can we just make Yann LeCun president of AI and call it a day please?

Introducing, the Paul Debevec long read, at befores & afters magazine. I'm sure many people know Paul Debevec's incredible influence on VFX. At SIGGRAPH Asia ➡️ Hong Kong I got the chance to sit down with him to discuss a discreet portion of his work at Google & at Netflix. beforesandafters.com/2024/04/04/the…

(🧵NO ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS): To answer the question "What does the future hold for 𝑆𝐀𝑅𝑆-𝐂𝑂𝑉-𝟐?" it's worth examining how predictable its evolutionary trajectory has been so far. Evolution is stochastic, but stochastic processes can still yield predictions. (1/)

Prime Focus Ltd. Expands with Strategic Merger! | MCap 3,034.37 Cr | PE 15.07 Prime Focus Ltd. completes a merger to boost AI in media! 🚀 🔑 Key Points: - Prime Focus Limited (PFL) announced the completion of a merger between its step-down subsidiary Brahma Merger Sub Inc.

Producer Chris DeFaria on Creator Economy and Strategy Behind Startup Chronicle Studios: ‘We’re Trying to Invert the Development Process’ #FMX2025 variety.com/2025/artisans/… via @variety