Uday Shankar

Father, UX & prototyping leader, Design evangelist, Hand percussionist.

Product Design @ Perforce

[Uday Shankar @udayms]

Instagram Teen account is a joke! Parents are given minimal and weak control over the content that is visible to children.

[BowTiedMara @BowTiedMara]

On the left, you can see how they breakdance at the Paralympics.

On the right, the Australian “RayGun”.

I am not surprised that she is still in hiding in Europe 💀

[Ong @OngDevLab]

I’m convinced that it’s easier to become president than pass technical coding interviews……..

[J. Carson Niño @unluckypants]

@SwissWatchGuy it makes me sick to my stomach that this type of political discourse is gone

[Uday Shankar @udayms]

Need an invite to @getairchat. Anyone in my circle on the platform?

[Charlie Holtz @charlieholtz]

even the sora mistakes are mesmerizing

[Jim Fan @DrJimFan]

If you think OpenAI Sora is a creative toy like DALLE, ... think again. Sora is a data-driven physics engine. It is a simulation of many worlds, real or fantastical. The simulator learns intricate rendering, "intuitive" physics, long-horizon reasoning, and semantic grounding, all by some denoising and gradient maths.

I won't be surprised if Sora is trained on lots of synthetic data using Unreal Engine 5. It has to be!

Let's breakdown the following video. Prompt: "Photorealistic closeup video of two pirate ships battling each other as they sail inside a cup of coffee."

- The simulator instantiates two exquisite 3D assets: pirate ships with different decorations. Sora has to solve text-to-3D implicitly in its latent space.
- The 3D objects are consistently animated as they sail and avoid each other's paths.
- Fluid dynamics of the coffee, even the foams that form around the ships. Fluid simulation is an entire sub-field of computer graphics, which traditionally requires very complex algorithms and equations.
- Photorealism, almost like rendering with raytracing.
- The simulator takes into account the small size of the cup compared to oceans, and applies tilt-shift photography to give a "minuscule" vibe.
- The semantics of the scene does not exist in the real world, but the engine still implements the correct physical rules that we expect.

Next up: add more modalities and conditioning, then we have a full data-driven UE that will replace all the hand-engineered graphics pipelines.

https://t.co/7BikSgE7iN

[Perforce Software @perforce]

We are thrilled to announce an agreement to acquire @Delphix, a best-in-class leader in enterprise data management. This acquisition provides a strong short and long-term opportunity in Perforce's DevOps evolution. Learn more about it in our blog: https://t.co/QKRgHcG7y2

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

Congrats to Chamberlain for making every single person who owns a MyQ garage door opener never want to be your customer again. fuck you! https://t.co/hHJ3NWNUPu

[Uday Shankar @udayms]

@HDFCBank_Cares Hi Ajay, you can DM me here anytime. I don't understand why you need any more contact details from me. This problem is with your public-facing website. I am not willing to share contact details beyond this especially when your link (https://t.co/mgU6XKhSo0) looks so shady.

[Uday Shankar @udayms]

@HDFC__BankCares Your team asked for my contact details and I refused to provide that. I am not asking for any personal or account info.

[Uday Shankar @udayms]

@HDFC__BankCares I did DM you.

[Uday Shankar @udayms]

Is it just me, or does the https://t.co/5aipB1uPod homepage crash with 403 errors for others (India and outside)? It's been happening for more than a week now. @HDFC_Bank @HDFCBank_Cares

[Work Chronicles @_workchronicles]

User Needs

[Uday Shankar @udayms]

@EdKrassen @cspan Does the potus work out at gym in a strip mall? Don’t they have a gym at the whitehouse?

[Uday Shankar @udayms]

@jamesm @figma Yes. There has to be a better way. I spend an unreasonable amount of time downgrading users to viewers when the true-up comes. Users who were randomly invited into some single project as a collaborator and never returned but are billed as editors.

[Uday Shankar @udayms]

@Awesomified

[Alex Sidorenko @asidorenko_]

Dynamic parallel routes in Next.js 13

[Uday Shankar @udayms]

@Awesomified

[jhey ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ @jh3yy]

CSS Tip! ✨

You can make your component styles portable with container queries 😎

Change a card layout based on size 🔥
Remove button text when it's small 🤏

.card {container-type: inline-size;}
@ container (min-width: 50ch) {.info { grid-column: 2; }}

@CodePen link below 👇

[jhey ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ @jh3yy]

CSS Tip! ✨

You can make your component styles portable with container queries 😎

Change a card layout based on size 🔥
Remove button text when it's small 🤏

.card {container-type: inline-size;}
@ container (min-width: 50ch) {.info { grid-column: 2; }}

@CodePen link below 👇