How would individual cells of our bodies work together as individuals?
The sense of self might be an evolutionary construct to help that happen, without other (deep) philosophical or religious reasons.
2023-01-29
Sense of self as an evolutionary construct
2023-01-23
Asian competitive advantage for SIGGRAPH
I liked to joke that Asian folks have a competitive advantage for SIGGRAPH since its deadline is usually before the lunar new year, but this year proves a rare exception.
Neither matters that much to me anymore, though.
🙂
2023-01-16
賴床
Sometimes I am envious about people who can stay in bed after waking up in the morning; I either feel bored at that time or have to record a vivid dream before it is gone.
2023-01-15
2023-01-14
Contented wild boar
After this image from this article; the boar seems more contented in print than in digital.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UkhfsfnQ52U
2023-01-13
New technology new bugs
Programmers are well aware of the fact that every time we add some new code we may also create new bugs.
(And when we fix the old bugs we may create new ones, ad infinitum.)
This seems to apply to technology in general, for impact in climate, environment, biology, economy, culture, society, etc.
Acrylic pointillism experiment
Physical paints can be more challenging to mix than digital paints due to complex chemical reactions leading to the combined colors.
Inspired by artistic pointillism and digital halftoning, in this experiment we stipple original acrylic paints to achieve color mixing effects.
2023-01-12
Last day of Adobe sabbatical
Today is the last day of my Adobe sabbatical, which, as far as I remember, is the first official time off in my entire career.
I never felt the need to take a work break, but the sabbatical will expire if not used soon, unlike other types of day offs that could be accumulated/retained for longer.
I am glad I took it though; even though the duration (20 working days after 5 years of employment) is shorter than a typical faculty sabbatical but is still long enough for me to reflect on things that I wouldn’t thought about otherwise.
Aside from a little bit of research which I considered to be fun (reading/reviewing/revising papers and collaborating with students), I have spent almost the entire sabbatical with my family whom I haven’t visited since the onset of covid, walked/hiked a lot around different places, learned more about (physical) acrylic painting, found out (and dealt with) some health issues that I was too busy to even notice, and realized that I no longer care about some stuff that others consider important (and which I used to or thought I still do).
January 13 2023 add on:
It appears that Microsoft is adopting “unlimited time off” like Adobe.
Since I didn’t take any day off with Microsoft, all my remaining time off got converted to cash on my last day.