Ana Dodik

In the era of AI generated review slop, you really learn to appreciate the hand crafted artisanal low-effort reviews.

Ray Tracing using HIP In this technical report, we introduce the basics of ray tracing and explain how to accelerate the computation of the rendering algorithm in HIP. We also show how to use a HIP ray tracing framework - ...

Ray Tracing using HIP
arxiv.org/abs/2603.00292

The Symposium on Computer Animation is Coming!

BARCELONA, SPAIN. JULY 8 - 10, 2026!

Papers Abstract Deadline: April 10, 2026
Poster Deadline: June 1, 2026

Website: sca.graphics

Call for papers : computeranimation.org/instructions...

Barcelona > LA (Come on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada...)

One of our dogs starts barking like crazy if someone knocks on anything and I've realized I have developed a stress response any time I hear a knock now, even when she's not around.

I think my dog inverse Pavloved me.

Proud for my latent nearest neighbor to be @diwlevin.bsky.social.

Smart use of AI !

Oh nvm I just saw the second tweet in your thread.

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...

Does this work? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"I Don't Want to See You in Heaven" by The Callous Daoboys. "Lemon" is probably the most approachable song on the album.

Congratulations 👏🎉

Screenshot of a paper entry: Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler (There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

newspaper covers were the original clickbait

Hvala!

Catch me talking about Meschers at the NeurIPS @neur_reps workshop!

anadodik.github.io/publication/meschers

It was inspired by NeurIPS discourse on X.com The Everything App.

Tired of senior folks dragging people's posters on socials. Has contentification cooked our sociality so much?

Consider alternatives:
1. In-person feedback.
2. Broadly construed feedback.
3. Make resources.
4. Post positive examples.
5. Censor the name.
6. Laugh about it in a groupchat if you must.

We're now obviously past postmodernism and past multinational capitalism. I know Anna Kornbluh's new book tries to extend Jameson to the digital age but have not read it so your milage may vary!

Since you're mentioning Fisher, I'd recommend looking into Fred Jameson's work too. His essay/book on postmodernism is phenomenal. Imo anyone who's trying to understanding the current cultural moment with any level of seriousness should grapple with it.

🌶️ Hot take: ML-based graphics makes some graphics researchers unhappy for the same reason diffusion models make artists unhappy.

Both automate the interesting and beautiful parts of the work and both deskill the worker. Both result in questionable quality and both are being adopted regardless.

100%

Ah... irrational spirals, diffuse and specular reflections and saturated colors. Happy Monte Carlo season to those who celebrate.

🛫 OMW to NeurIPS!

☕ Let me know if you want to grab coffee!

📐 Exited to see what everyone in geometry, PINNs, or algo fairness has been up to!

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

this is insane, congrats 👏🙌

🔥🔥🔥 Do they import nicely into Blender? I've needed something like this so many times and I just ended up dumping npz files and writing ad-hoc import scripts.

🎄 Introducing our paper A Generalizable Light Transport 3D Embedding for Global Illumination lnkd.in/gQUMSAyV .
🙈 Just as Transformers learn long-range relationships between words or pixels, our new paper shows they can also learn how light interacts and bounces around a 3D scene.

I may disagree with Sally Korbluth on many (most?) things, but credit where credit is due.

Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels - Aleksa Gordić From GPU architecture and PTX/SASS to warp-tiling and deep asynchronous tensor core pipelines.

"Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels", includes a great intro to GPU architecture and PTX/SASS: www.aleksagordic.com/blog/matmul

That's true, it actually seems pretty interesting!

Finally replied to one of these LLM generated undergrad emails saying they really liked my work on topic XYZ (I have never heard of this stuff let alone worked on it), and asked "What is topic XYZ? :)"

I got back an LLM generated output explaining topic XYZ.

Chat are we cooked?