Confessions of a researchaholic

October 29, 2024

Two sides of a scam

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:29 pm
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A 60+ years old ordinary joe is divorcing his wife and moving to a different part of the world after meeting a 35 years old beautiful woman claiming to be a millionaire living in a posh house.

I can picture you rolling your eyes now, but this is actually happening right now with an acquaintance of mine.

For that scam to work, he has to be stupid enough to believe it and cruel enough to ditch his wife. Would she have the kindness and generosity to take him back in the end?

October 26, 2024

Should newspapers inform or opine?

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 11:31 am

If a newspaper has been endorsing political candidates in the past and suddenly stops doing so due to the owner’s concern about the potential consequences for his personal interests, I can understand the frustration from the readers.

Personally, though, I would prefer newspapers to inform me about the facts and let me make my own decisions instead of telling me what to do.



October 25, 2024

Golden berries and blue gum-ball

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:39 pm
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I noticed this interesting color combination of golden berries and a blue gum-ball in a bento box and decided to draw it.


Hans Zimmer isn’t scared of AI

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 2:39 pm
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Because AI can only look at the past but not create the future.

October 23, 2024

Digital painting apps – good to use, hard to monetize

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 1:44 pm
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Adobe Fresco is free for all now!
Give a try if you are into painting/drawing/motion and have a touch/stylus-supported device running iOS/Windows.



Compared to apps that have a larger audience (e.g., social media) or higher margins (e.g., business/productivity), digital painting aims for those who have the skills and interests to create art and who often do this for fun instead of work.
I guess this is why the Procreate CEO once commented that they make money in order to make the app, not the other way around.

October 19, 2024

Adobe MAX Sneaks

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 11:26 am
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Presenting in Adobe MAX Sneaks turns out to be a very fun and rewarding experience and quite different from presenting in SIGGRAPH or other large academic conferences – higher stakes, deeper-vested audience, to entertain than to inform, larger teamwork, and more rehearsals.
See the list of presentations here.

October 11, 2024

Sleep infinity

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:29 pm
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I was trying to keep my (interactive) run-ai job running instead of being “succeeded” and realized that I could use “sleep infinity” as the entry command.


https://www.behance.net/gallery/210033783/SleepInfinity

October 9, 2024

Accidental art from a broken train station display

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 11:22 am
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Saw this broken train station display showing intriguing patterns caused by the interactions between the surrounding light and display structure, and got some inspiration to create abstract art from it.

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