Michael Mara

Computer Graphics Researcher (Just finished PhD Stanford, previously Oculus Research, NVIDIA Research and Casual Effects)

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@TaylorStreet312 @adamjohnsonNYC Competent governments actually do put railings where multiple suicide-by-trains have happened in the past, and don’t expect the “keep off tracks” signs to work by themselves.

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

My friend's home burned down in the Boulder county fires on Thursday, and he lost basically all of his possessions. If you can spare some change, please give him some to help get back on his feet. https://t.co/GP9zgsZ1HC

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@b0rk Much more than any discrete elements of the list: understanding assembly is what fully removed the veil of mysticism from the way I programmed. Abstractions were no longer just things I could build up, but things that I could drill down into if needed/wanted. No more magic.

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@schneckerstein [0,1]: "unit interval"
[-1,1]: "1D unit ball"

But in writing, just "[0,1]" and "[-1,1]".

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@dmetaxak @Penn @AnnenbergPenn Congrats! They are lucky to have you!

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@georgemporter @mauricioaniche @johnregehr I've started putting on shoes and walking out onto my apartment's balcony and back in through the other door to simulate a "commute". It's had a noticeable ability to get me into "work-mode", at least for a couple hours. Mind tricks can't make up for a bad work environment though

[🇵🇸 northern coyote 🇺🇦 @capybaranorth]

I'm working with @msbernst and epidemiologists at @UVA_BI to enable volunteers to fill a gap in scientists’ ability to model COVID-19. Help predict the spread of COVID-19 by adding data on what social distancing rules are in place in your own county at https://t.co/v9PGEJDFGf!

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@swainrob @CasualEffects It's a fade for me too, if my eyes track the cut out. I don't see a fade if I focus on the background during the move.

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@ojahnn @mattsiegel Good time to do local renaming/refactoring. Bonus: the codebase becomes significantly nicer to program in over time.

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@seangies @mcclure111 @Catfish_Man Replies that weren't to other people you also follow is a somewhat recent addition. Sometime in the last couple years.

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@ShellDozer @johnregehr It's perfectly valid and has well defined behavior in 32-bit too!

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@jfbastien @johnregehr Not quite as fun as the double-whammy of 2^32, but even more results for 2^16.

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@LeehiYona I've been using Zotero recently: https://t.co/dl9Qyj1ZKL, which is a big step up from my previous download folder full of pdfs and google doc annotated bibliography.

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@venpopov @mmalex My research is coming up for a week or two or less then a lot better.

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@joaovbs96 @Peter_shirley How do you sample a random direction for indirect bounces? Uniformly on a hemisphere about the normal?

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@jeremyphoward @nytimes @chrishwiggins "The most well-known example of exercising people power is a consumer boycott" is a wild statement, given the history and efficacy of collective labor power.

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@matiasgoldberg @bgolus @JoshuaBarczak Good enough for profile pics for large propaganda bot farms, but not good enough to make a prominent fully fabricated celebrity.

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@Reedbeta I also like to save my jpegs with the extension .png. Keeps me on my toes.

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

@killerooo Awesome! This was produced as a side effect of me scanning papers for potential applications of a DSL, so I needed a conservative search. Titles underestimate, text definitely over estimates the relevant papers.

[Michael Mara @mikemx7f]

2018 @siggraph papers containing key phrases:

13 - Generative Adversarial Network
16 - Augmented Reality
18 - Ray Tracing
33 - Virtual Reality
45 - Convolutional Neural Network
54 - Least-Squares
57 - Neural Network
60 - Hardware
99 - Rendering
110 - Real-time
145 - Optimization