Alex Udrescu

VP of Engineering at Image Metrics

[Alex Udrescu @pudrescu]

This was my dad, and I miss him terribly.

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A murit Dumitru Udrescu, creatorul „Teleenciclopediei”, una dintre cele mai longevive emisiuni din România https://t.co/qV4jnGNloq

[TVR Info @StirileTVR]

A murit Dumitru Udrescu, creatorul „Teleenciclopediei”, una dintre cele mai longevive emisiuni din România https://t.co/qV4jnGNloq

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

A few things I've noticed as all devs write code with AI.

When you write foundational / architectural code of a new project by hand, you "feel" the code pushing back if your abstraction isn't right. You feel when something is harder than it should be. The code is telling you it's not in the right shape. Good engineers are sensitive to this.

When you're using an LLM, you keep pushing right through this in a way that feels like you're making progress, and it may even be directionally correct in a sense, but the underlying foundation of it all is actually bad in a way that either kills progress of the LLM later as it buckles under the complexity it has created or destroys your ability to maintain the code long term.

Related to this, I see a general restlessness with just sitting and thinking about a problem for a while.

As I've been working on a new library here at Laravel, there have been days where it feels like I mainly just stare at my screen thinking about something. When Claude Code is at your fingertips, it's tempting to just start yapping into the terminal and watching code come out the other end. Again, directionally correct in some ways, but often doesn't land on the elegant solution that is waiting to be discovered.

[Nikhil Thorat @nsthorat]

It is *certainly* true that culture accounts for the /volume/ of success that immigrants have in STEM. And it’s certainly not the only predictor of success.

Growing up in the US as a second generation immigrant with an Indian father and American mother, I went to one of the better public high schools. What was “cool” in my high school was really important to what we cared about socially. Reading history books & going to after school math tutoring were things I was forced to do by my Indian father, and I put up a fight because it was cooler to play basketball & be funny around the popular kids and be “chill”.

My dad saw I was going down the “wrong path” (he caught me smoking pot with one of the cool kids) and sent me to a math and science school, something I despised him for at the time. In hindsight it was the best thing that ever happened to me academically — importantly because “cool” was suddenly redefined.

It was now cool to be smart, be in math club, hack the computers, make computer games. Competition was redefined from making funny jokes in class to solving some math problem before other people could.

At the same time, there are countless examples of people I’ve worked with who never had the culture of “smart”=“cool” and have gone on to be some of the most talented people in the field, completely self driven.

Overall, I think this point about culture is very strong. While it’s absolutely true you need to have a fire within you & have the self motivation to care about academic topics, what culture kids grow up in absolutely has profound effects on what they grow up to be. Kids don’t understand the trajectory they’re on, and culture / parental pushes can be key differentiators.

So I think it’s fair to say that the volume success from immigrants in STEM fields comes from some healthy blend of American culture and this other academic external push.

I don’t think it’s possible for this pendulum to swing too far into the other direction where we *only* focus on this type of tiger parenting (the exception is silicon valley, let’s focus on normal america), so I think this effort to shift this culture is a good one.

[Alex Udrescu @pudrescu]

@Evecoins done

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

WOW. IS EVERYBODY OK?!?!?!?

[Alex Udrescu @pudrescu]

@MetrolinkVC Any news on the A774? Waiting at Chatsworth Station

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

[Adam Nash @adamnash]

4 out of 10 unicorn founders are immigrants. India 🇮🇳, Israel 🇮🇱, Canada 🇨🇦 top the list.

We desperately need to get immigration back to historical levels (or higher). 💯

[⚡OG @Randy_Shannon]

This is awesome, her face at the end!😎🔊👇🎶

[Rads @_radsy]

once you reach a certain age if you pull an all-nighter, you die

[Katie Lewis Grumman @KatieLewisMIT]

Excited to share our virtual try-on method, VOGUE, from my Google Research internship with @kemelmi!

https://t.co/HSY8ND5RnZ

We achieve photo-realistic results through interpolation optimization using a pose-conditioned StyleGAN2 network that outputs segmentations & images 1/3

[Alex Udrescu @pudrescu]

I'm very excited to announce #Swerve #iOS app by @Image_Metrics showcasing our #CV #AR #Body real-time tracking technology.

https://t.co/FOAfZTd4lE

[Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers]

We did it, LA. #LATogether

[Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew]

Sonnet 154. The final one. Here's to everyone who has been so kindly watching and listening to these sonnets. We never expected anything like this and we appreciate it enormously. Thank you! #ASonnetADay

[Megan McArthur @Astro_Megan]

At SpaceX this week for training with @astro_kimbrough, learning how to fly the Dragon.

[Signal-to-Noise @SignaltoNoise1]

Vinyl&AR mk² #augmentedreality #soundreactive #vinyl #arkit #madewithunity #digitalart #frequencyanalysis

[Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew]

This sonnet struck me as an example of how Shakespeare's writing can sometimes sound extraordinarily contemporary, as if he wrote it yesterday. Here we go, Sonnet 91. #ASonnetADay

[Sharif Shameem @sharifshameem]

This is mind blowing.

With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you.

W H A T

[Alex Udrescu @pudrescu]

Very cool!

[Julian Bass @thejulianbass]

if y’all can retweet this enough times that Disney calls, that’d be greatly appreciated