Confessions of a researchaholic

2024-11-01

Purposes of different social medias

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 10:58 am
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Do you use different social medias for different purposes?

For example, I (mostly) use Instagram/Behance for art, LinkedIn for work, Facebook for life, Twitter for news, and blog for thoughts.

I see others use social medias in a mixed way which seems suboptimal to me because people are on different social medias for potentially different purposes under different moods.
For example, when I am on Facebook I am usually looking more for travel photos than research papers or technical presentations, but tend to see the reverse in my social feed.

I could think of a few reasons for this mixed use: some people might be (active) on one or two social medias only, some people might have a different interpretation of the usages (e.g., their work might be a main part of their life), and some people might not care about the differences.

2024-10-29

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?

2024-10-26

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.



2024-10-25

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.

2024-10-23

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.

2024-10-19

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.

2024-10-11

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://youtube.com/shorts/3iIka9vMP8w
https://www.behance.net/gallery/210033783/SleepInfinity

2024-10-09

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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