iPad Pro 12.9-in 64-GB
Enrolled 10/26/2021
Last seen 6/22/2023
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Succeeded by W99KG6V2KQ
iPad Pro 11-in 128-GB
Enrolled 7/27/2023
2023-08-02
Obituary for DLXXK17WK7M9
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 paper committee meeting
Some random thoughts after just finished the SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 paper committee meetings:
I am thrilled to see several of my previous students (or “shadow advisees” to be precise) in the committee.
I hope this has been a good experience for them, even though probably not as good as in-person meetings where they can socialize with other committee members.
(Not as an excuse for shirking review duties, but I also wonder if this is a sign that I can fade away from these committee services soon.)
The meeting time is not ideal for people in Asia, and several of them were not able to present their papers.
I wonder if PC members’ time zones can be an additional variable to optimize for the HepCat paper queues for future virtual PC meetings.
Like hybrid work, I wonder if we can have hybrid PC meetings in the future, where some PC members can meet in person while others can join remotely depending on their preferences and budget supports from ACM/grants/institutions.
Given the increasingly large number of submissions, I wonder if at some point everyone in the graphics community will serve in the PC.
2023-07-31
Why and how
Saw these two cars damaged and piled together inside a cordoned parking area, and wondered how they ended up in such a configuration and why.
2023-07-29
Confidential shredding
The other day while sliding a document into a confidential shredding slot in the office, a thought came to my mind that a shredding bin might be the most likely place that people want to peek into.
https://youtube.com/shorts/65BX9sfSfy
2023-07-25
Training weak muscles
For physical exercises we were told not to hurry through difficult parts as these indicate our weak spots that we need to work on more thoroughly.
This applies to mental exercises as well.
I used to avoid tasks that I don’t like, but now I reflect on the underlying reasons and do these for the sake of training my mental weak spots.
2023-07-23
EJMR
From a podcast I bumped into this paper about the economics job market rumors (EJMR) forum, which is a place for anonymous discussions about the job market for economists.
I was initially interested in the methodology (in particular reverse hashing) and results in the paper, but then I found the EJMR site itself to be even more fascinating as it sheds more light on human nature than economics (which is already a relatively “well to do” branch of social/political science).
2023-07-22
Bugs are unintended consequences
I joked that the world needs computer scientists because only they can fix the bugs they created.
Bugs are basically intended consequences of the code originally wrote.
But then I realized that unintended consequences apply to all human creations, such as technology (e.g., carbon emission), economy (e.g., globalization), policy (e.g., communism), and culture (e.g., feminism).
2023-07-21
Know what you want for your life
A friend of friend, asking for career advice, said that he/she knows only what he/she does not want to do but not what he/she wants because he/she is used to do what being told.
If you do not know what you want for yourself, nobody else is going to figure that out for you. And even if they tell you, it is for them, not you.
Our education system is focusing more on technical than the much more important life skills, such as how to interact with other people, how to live a happy life, how to manage emotions, etc., which we tend to learn in an ad-hoc way.
2023-07-19
Everyone has talent at 25, the difficulty is to have it at 50
I am not sure about the first part, but I do agree with the second part.