While picking up some fallen leaves in the back yard I spotted a segment of black, and judging by the softness/humidity, still fresh, coyote scat, which is a reminder that the wild animals can come in anytime regardless of the fence or other human-made boundaries.
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On the train table next to him sat two girls chatting in a language unfamiliar to him. It sounded south-east Asian, a bit like Thai but unlike Vietnamese, Tagalog, or Indonesian.
He was curious about the language and asked them about it, and they told him that it is Burmese.
I often find the patent disclosures hard to read (to the point that they could be good sleep inducers when one has a hard time falling asleep), and seem to be generated by some automatic procedures instead of directly written by humans even before the emergence of large language models (LLMs).
(If you have knowledge about this, feel free to let me know. I am pretty sure that in the minimum the patent law firms must have some sorts of document-templates even if not software.)
Fortunately, nowadays we can also use LLMs to summarize such documents (e.g., built-in within Acrobat Reader), which hints to a potential future in which all documents are synthesized and analyzed by AI, through which humans communicate with each other and with their AI agents, while the AI agents may evolve to communicate via their own languages that are more efficient than human languages but incomprehensible to humans.
Attended this screening of Lawrence Jordan’s films which I really enjoyed due to the sound tracks and his unique cut-out animation style.
During the QA session, he shared how he chose from his large collection of materials for use in his works, and I was impressed by how sharp he still was over the age of 90.
For those who view the past as better than the present or the potential future and thus would like to move forward by moving backward.
25 April-1st fool’s days ago I joked that NVIDIA is buying Intel.
I think they should still do it, keep the design division and sell the manufacturing division.
(If only the antitrust regulators would allow it, which seems unlikely.)
On September 2 2025 I tried the lunch special “pulpo a la Catalana” in which the octopus leg segment prompted my imagination of the whole body the leg belonged to.
Thanks to the Adobe Bon Appétit chefs who made all these delicious and nutritious meals for us.
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While at SIGGRAPH conferences I usually spent the majority of my “attendance time” in the animation festivals and production talks primarily because (1) the contents are usually not recorded for later consumption, (2) the effects look nice, and (3) the topics tend to be something I am less familiar with, even after 20+ years in the field.
The animation creations and effects productions are hybrids of art and science/engineering.
Each effect is tailored for the specific style and story and created by a combination of artistic practices and off-the-shelf/bespoke tools.
The presentations tend to focus on the design process and tools deployment, instead of technical methods and implementations.
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