Seam carving (content-aware resizing) does not work well for this photography, so I manually edited it via a few tools.
February 27, 2022
February 23, 2022
WCD 248 Harbor
This is a visual impression of a place as an experimentation with Adobe Fresco grid guide.
Father helps by making money
I like this cute drawing by my niece of her father (my brother).
🙂
Lively academic thread
I saw 11 replies to a Slack thread of a research project and thought “whoa what a lively academic research discussion” and then came in to find out it was all about gift card amount for user study participants.
=D
February 22, 2022
Advices from a speaker coaching session
Say less and say better.
Connect with the audience from the start; why this talk matters to them.
Have a closure at the end, like take home messages or potential future works.
Asking your opinion before venturing mine
A recent undergraduate intern (with a first-authored paper in an upcoming top HCI venue with me) asked my thought on how to pick among PhD offers he has received from several top schools.
Initially I gave a no-brainer answer, but on a second thought I realized that I should hear his prioritized list so that I won’t get ahead of myself.
Maybe I should do this for other cases in the future (and put a disclaimer before my existing written suggestions).
Later, we went over his detailed reasoning and it appears that he would pick my original no-brainer recommendation.
I look forward to our next collaboration project.
February 19, 2022
Number 70 – afternoon and sunrise
I penciled the afternoon scene first, and colored the sunrise scene based on a photo I took earlier as visual reference.
Silicon Valley Index
Some interesting aspects I found in the 2022 Silicon Valley Index:
- The total population declined due to net emigration.
- Asian now constitutes 39% of the population, more than white (29%), Hispanic (24%), black (2%), and the others (6%).
- The median income ($138100) is about the twice the US value ($67300).
- Apple and Alphabet employed 12% of the total work force.
- Despite a relatively low household poverty rate of 5%, nearly 33% of all households do not earn enough money to meet their most basic needs without public or private/informal assistance.
- Non-residential development approvals hit an all-time high in FY 2020-21, with more than 21.5 million square feet of space approved.
February 14, 2022
String pile
This is a exercise to draw a fairly complex object in a sufficiently simple means.