Farah Ali

Tech Exec | Founder | Advisor | Tech For Good. All views my own.

[SEED @seed]

SEED is delighted to announce that Gigi, an innovative tool for rapid prototyping of rendering techniques, is now open source and available to the public! Congrats to Alan Wolfe for spearheading this project!

Learn more about Gigi and watch the tutorial: https://t.co/LnWkU8GVuD

[SEED @seed]

Our work got a mention from ESPN!

Inside this profile piece on EA College Football is a great shoutout for GIBS, an awesome lighting tool spearheaded by SEED's own @staerlor used to light the stadiums! Congrats!

https://t.co/BuuLB9lNYC

[SEED @seed]

How do we give superpowers to game audio designers using AI?

Take a peek inside how R&D works at SEED. Project ExFlowSions uses ML to perform style transfer on sound effects. And it showcases the lessons learned from turning research into a working tool.

https://t.co/RzqWenIiDo

[Bartłomiej Cupiał @CupiaBart]

So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career.

Along with @maciejwolczyk we've been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recenlty, something unexpected happened.

[SEED @seed]

Going beyond white noise for real-time rendering can produce better results with no increase in rendering time.

Check out Alan Wolfe's full-length video workshop on using different types of noise for random number generation. https://t.co/YZPKJCGqOh

[SEED @seed]

We are thrilled to announce that @EA and SEED’s Voice2Face project have been named one of @FastCompany’s Next Big Things in Tech! It is a tremendous honor to be recognized alongside other game-changing organizations for the #FCTechAwards.

Research paper: https://t.co/6qEnUwp1E0

[Madrona Venture Labs @MadronaVL]

Madrona Venture Labs and Madrona are thrilled to kick-off Launchable: Generative Apps!

We have 12 teams with over 50 participants working to advance their vertical generative app startups.

Special thanks to our sponsors for helping bring this event to life!

#Launchable

[SEED @seed]

Co-speech gestures — the hand, body, and eye movements we make as we speak — are an essential component of human communication, but automatically generating them for games remains a challenge.

Learn more about the problem & data-driven approaches here: https://t.co/0RQoddWRRP

[Farah Ali @_farahali_]

@KittyCADInc is now live! Give it a try

[Zoo @zoodotdev]

Today, we are open sourcing the KittyCAD Modeling App (KCMA) a hybrid CAD modeling app that combines traditional point-and-click and code modeling. This is an alpha release and we would love for you to try it out and give us feedback! https://t.co/2J0t2GxlFt

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

This Tom Brady video is gold.

Tom and NFL coach Bill Belichick discuss handling Ed Reed in an upcoming game.

The highest-performing partnerships sound like this.

Each person doing their part perfectly:

• Being real about the situation
• Actively listening to the other (watch Bill!)
• Bill (senior person) visibly writing down solutions

If you have a partner and your chats don't sound like this, you need a new partner.

Or you need to fix yourself.

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I'm trying to bring more unique=quality content to X. If you want to help in that mission, like/retweet/bookmark/reply to this post! What do you think?

Michael

[Sam Altman @sama]

on november 6, we’ll have some great stuff to show developers! (no gpt-5 or 4.5 or anything like that, calm down, but still i think people will be very happy…)

https://t.co/QH1mpXzoqp

[andrew arruda @andrewarruda]

an absolute @sama banger.

"innovation is easier with a relatively small team that has to make a decisive and clear concentrated bet and that doesn't tolerate any mediocre performers. that's it."

small, focused, high-performing teams win.

[Farah Ali @_farahali_]

Read the full blog on how to statelessly shuffle and group array items from @seed's @Atrix256 and @SpinConnexion here: https://t.co/9WqwHlGIhP

[SEED @seed]

Learn how to statelessly shuffle and group array items from this blog by SEED's @Atrix256 and @SpinConnexion, featuring four open source code demos. Read the full post here: https://t.co/R3fd2GGbxy

Code demos are available on SEED's public GitHub: https://t.co/ot9eliHm3R @EA

[Farah Ali @_farahali_]

@EA and @seed is excited to partner on this great launchable: generative apps event by @MadronaVentures and @MadronaVL. Deadline to apply is 9/3: https://t.co/PtV1ITCldG

[GeekWire @geekwire]

Sponsored: Apply to @MadronaVL & @MadronaVentures Launchable by 9/3! Build your generative app startup, learn from operators & mentors, & pitch to VC judges. The winner will launch w/ $250k in pre-seed funding & be highlighted at the IA40 Summit.

Apply: https://t.co/o5lbnPGX6P

[SEED @seed]

Just wrapped up a week of Summer School with @WASP_Research! ⛱️

Thank you to all of the incredible students that participated, and to @ktollmar and @SvitozarTaras for supporting this event with two keynotes and a workshop on using generative AI to create animations.

[Sofy.ai @sofydotai]

🚀 If you’re looking to increase efficiency in your mobile app testing strategy, scriptless automation is the way to go. But how exactly does that work in practice? Head over to our blog to find out.

https://t.co/DKEF7KEZp8

[Julian Togelius @togelius]

Now, Alessandro Sestini from @EA @seed on generating personal for games, with applications to automate video game testing

[Julian Togelius @togelius]

Second day of @ieee_cog kicking off with @l_gisslen of Electronic Arts @seed talking about the interesting work they do on machine learning in game production

[Farah Ali @_farahali_]

Come work with some super smart ppl!

[SEED @seed]

We have an open PhD role focused on Human-Centered AI for video games a collaboration with @KTHuniversity & @WASP_Research. The student would be co-supervised by Iolanda Leite, KTH and @ktollmar at SEED @EA
Link to apply 👉https://t.co/qWOoRV9mIQ

[SEED @seed]

What if you could train a bot to explore a game map with human-like curiosity? SEED’s team is presenting an exciting paper for an RL algorithm to perform automatic analysis and detection of gameplay issues. Presented this week at @ieee_cog 2023. https://t.co/wIHdGKh2i9