mastodon 4.6.9I'm a PhD student at MIT!
I am absolutely *delighted* to learn that the City of Cambridge maintains a publicly accessible database of nearly 50,000 trees in Cambridge, MA, complete with information on location, species, ownership, and more. My personal website now offers you a tree-of-the-day to visit on your daily walk!
I wrote a little blog post about an interesting perceptual effect I found that's related to pareidolia and peripheral vision.
Hi friends! Greetings from SIGGRAPH Asia! If you happen to be around and would like to meet up, please send me an email. :)
PS I'm here to present our ~zany~ new paper, "Sketching With Your Voice: 'Non-Phono-realistic' Rendering of Sounds via Vocal Imitation." If you're here, come see our talk on Friday! https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13507
Spies from Caltech have infiltrated MIT's media ecosystem!
Sometimes, conversations with my advisor inspire ideas for new research. Other times, they inspire ideas for new memes.
Tinkering around with @PyTorch this evening, I seem to have trained a 77-parameter (not a typo) Transformer Quine that autoregressively generates a lossy copy of its own weights.