Be a sole author, multiple times.
Sneak behind other more senior/established collaborators to become the last author.
2018-09-16
MSR Asia single-author challenge
It has been 10 years since I posted up the single-author SIGGRAPH paper challenge to MSR Asia, and nobody has managed to claim the prize as far as I know.
Looking back at my writing, I was wondering who this blunt prick is.
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If I could, I would tell my past self to be more graceful without compromising the strength.
Otherwise, I still stick with, and have faithfully followed by own edicts, after switching into these other roles.
2018-09-03
Writing style for revision control Latex source
Put one, or at most a few, complete sentence(s) into one line.
Latex treats line breaks as spaces, so the compiled document will still have the correct formation.
Since popular revision control tools like git/svn are based on line diff, putting too many sentences in one line will cause excessive revision differences and obscure the actual changes.
Avoid artificial line breaks in the middle of the sentences, which tend to confuse the spell-checkers and the git/svn line diff.
2018-08-20
Shadow QA
During the QA after each paper presentation, it is common for the advisers to help the students, especially first-timers, to answer (or translate) questions.
I used to sit on the stage, which I dislike as the bright podium light can shine directly into my eyes. I once shielded my eyes with a hoodie, and people commented that I looked like a gangster.
Then I switched to sit on the front row and step up to the podium during QA. People can see my face; I prefer to remain invisible.
Finally, this year one of my papers was presented in a large, dark ballroom.
A narrow light beam casted over the speaker and the podium was right on the edge of the stage, which allowed me to sneak aside without being seen.
This is my favorite stage design so far.
2018-08-16
The coolest I have seen in SIGGRAPH 2018
Coolest demo in real-time live: AI + animation in addition to sketch-based modeling in Teddy
https://youtu.be/lF3zST6kO8k
Very cool VR format for anime/manga by Square Enix
Coolest exhibition: the looking glass autostereoscopic display, the game demo, for the first time, made me think that consumers might finally want to buy a 3D display at home.
2018-08-10
ζεε°ε°δ½θ ζΌ’εε§εε‘ε ₯δΈη― SIGGRAPH θ«ζ
After years waiting for the right combination of paper format and authors, I finally managed to insert ζΌ’ε author names to a research paper which now resides in the ACM digital library.
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2018-06-27
Project pivot versus switch
When we get stuck in a project, the issues could lay on the project or us.
For the former, switching to a different project might help.
For the latter, we should fix our own issues as otherwise no project will work out.
It is not always clear where the issues are.
But if someone keeps on switching projects, it could be a sign of individual instead of project issues.
Even if a project does not work out, it is usually better to pivot by continuous transforming the ideas during progress, instead of discontinuous switch to a separate project without coherence.
2018-06-08
Satoshi-Nakamotoism
Aside from rare exceptions like Steve Jobs or Albert Einstein, people usually do not care who is behind an invention or discovery.
(As a quick experiment, can you name the Nobel Prize winners in the most recent year, especially if you are not working in the related fields?)
Thus, I would prioritize our outcomes over our egos for publicity.
2018-06-07
Almost compromised principle
A student asked to submit our project to a non-top venue Y due to her/his school graduation requirement and study time frame, which I agreed out of necessity.
A few days ago, I noticed that (s)he changed the paper format from venue Y to a top venue X, right in front of the deadline, without even pinging me.
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