A metal tube of lotion that was not properly squeezed from the beginning ended up in a bad shape.
2021-11-06
2021-11-03
Unrealized submission
Yesterday I received some automatic notification about an accepted demo to SIGGRAPH Asia Real-Time Live without realizing that I have a submission there (a co-author of a previous UIST paper made the submission without telling others).
https://twitter.com/liyiwei/status/1455674543930953728
I mentioned this in a group meeting today, and a colleague told me that he has a previous intern who submitted their project without including his name and he found out by a review request for that submission.
🙂
So my case is quite benign in comparison.
2021-11-01
Patents are more like swords than shields
Patents are commonly thought as some kind of protection that can shield the inventors from lawsuits, but this is not the top reason as others can file patents for similar inventions.
Instead, patents are best used as potential weapons for counter-suits; the best defense is a good offense.
2021-10-31
Qi and Ding interview
Highly recommend. I particularly like the part about advices won’t prevent us from making mistakes but help us debug faster.
2021-10-30
OKR 2021
For OKR 2020, I rated myself 80 percent:
- Published 2 top papers with 2 student first authors.
- Contributed to a newly released motion brush feature in Adobe Fresco, and received 6 granted and 4 filed patents.
- I am relieved some of my management duties (for now) after my last direct report became a professor in NYU.
- I have yet to start top impacts.
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The creative practice (mainly drawing and animation) has heightened my sense of observation and can help me focus/relax into a zone similar to meditation.
I finished Quicksilver, the first volume of the Baroque Cycle, my yardstick for book reading.
The default period is from July 2021 to June 2022 unless stated otherwise.
Publish top papers
Publish at least 4 papers in top graphics/HCI/vision/ML venues, such as ToG (including SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia), CHI/UIST, NIPS/ICML, CVPR/ICCV.
Build top products
Ship at least 1 product feature and file at least 4 patents.
Develop top talents
Help at least 4 students publish in top graphics/HCI/vision/ML venues individually.
Recruit/refer at least 2 top job candidates.
Lead top impacts
This is a new category created last year that I shall start.
Have fun, be awesome
Practice sketching and animation to a professional level.
Continue learning a third language to complement the one Asian and one European language I already know.
Finish the baroque cycle.
2021-10-29
Water temple
Twenty years living
near Pulgas water temple
first visit today
https://youtu.be/6Y6YF_4t7ik
You can hear, from the sound I recorded onsite, the energy of the water flow 160+ miles from Hetch Hetchy, an engineering marvel that, via gravity, supplies 85 percent of drinking water to the SF Bay Area.
2021-10-28
2021-10-24
Walking in a windy rain
I took a walk outside to feel the excitement of this rare rain storm.
2021-10-23
A fly around a bowl of noodles
Google Lens classified the wheat noodles as shirataki probably due to the shiny, translucent appearance.
https://youtu.be/_K6qj_GmbBA