Merlin Nimier-David

Open Letter to the SIGGRAPH Leadership RE: Call for SIGGRAPH Asia to relocate from Malaysia and commit to a venue selection process that safeguards LGBTQ+ and other at-risk communities. To the SIGGRAPH Leadership: SIGGRAPH Executive Commit...

Holding SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 in Malaysia is a slap in the face to the rights of LGBTQ+ people. Especially now, when underrepresented people need as much support as we can possibly give them ! Angry like me ? Sign this open letter to let them know. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Actually I can find this paper from your profile, was it the one that was merged? scholar.google.ch/citations?vi...

I think it should be possible to unmerge: from your profile, click on the article title > Edit > Other > "Scholar articles" sections > radio button to "Unmerge this article and add it to my profile as a separate entry"

Research Scientist Intern, Generative AI - 2025 NVIDIA is searching for a world-class researcher in generative AI to join our research team. You will be conducting original research for generative AI applications, including the generation of langua...

Our group at NVIDIA Research Helsinki is looking for stellar research interns to work on generative AI!

The positions are on-site only — we believe in high-bandwidth F2F communication.

nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIA...

The new hyped Genesis simulator is up to 10x slower, not 10-80x faster Genesis is a new and impressive looking simulator but it severely overstates its simulation speed and accuracy. It’s also not a video generation model.

Important new data point about the speed claims: stoneztao.substack.com/p/the-new-hy...
The Genesis authors say they will respond in a few days: github.com/Genesis-Embo...

By default, Ubuntu runs automatic `apt upgrade` in the background from time to time. You can check if this happened recently: `less /var/log/apt/history.log`. By disabling these automatic upgrades, I no longer ran into unexpected "mismatched driver version" CUDA issues while working.

(Sorry if this doesn't apply or if you already know this); personally I haven't run into this problem since I've disabled Ubuntu's unattended-upgrades.

Following over 1.5 years of hard work (w/@njroussel.bsky.social &@rtabbara.bsky.social), we just released a brand-new version of Dr.Jit (v1.0), my lab's differentiable rendering compiler along with an updated Mitsuba (v3.6). The list of changes is insanely long—here is what we're most excited about🧵

The Graphics starter pack crossed 100 people today as more folks join the platform, it may be worth checking it out again!
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