David Levin

One last physics assignment, this time by my student Ty Trusty, implementing vertex-block descent: github.com/tytrusty/pba...

Get's about 5 chickens per second on my workstation GPU.

My worldview is being challenged

The reviews received for my ICLR submission are higher quality than reviews I received for my SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia submissions. All reviewers seemed to have actually read the paper and articulated their (reasonable) concerns in a constructive format.

Explains where all those socks are going

When this baby hits 88 revolutions per minute your going to see some serious sh!t.

Graduate student led quest to start Canada-Wide National Laboratories focused on applied science/technology research continues ... you can visit appliedcomputing.ca to read the original letter of intent and a proposal document, plus sign said letter to show your support.

I like how the average of technological utopia and end of humanity is 0.2% improvement in growth. I want to see the napkin that holds that calculation just so I know which bar serves the strong drinks.

This is the best way to illustrate "I don't know what the f#@$ is going on" I've ever seen.

I'm enjoying using NVIDIA Warp more and more in the course. Having a simple platform for students to learn kernel-based program is useful and the fact that they can run the assignments fast on the GPUS in their laptops, lab and home machines makes it all much more enjoyable for them and me.

GitHub - panuelosj/pba-assignment-fluids: Fluids Assignment Spec for UofT Course CSC417 Physics-Based Animation Fluids Assignment Spec for UofT Course CSC417 Physics-Based Animation - panuelosj/pba-assignment-fluids

New fluid simulation assignment for CSC417 just dropped. This one by my PhD student Jonathan Panuelos. I had always intended to have fluid sim in the previous course but never got around to writing the code. Maybe for the best, because Jonathan's version is so good.
github.com/panuelosj/pb...

From the Verge … there’s a word for this, when someone claims they own your entire personhood. It eludes me …

AFAIK it's not. really focused on spinning out companies or super applied research which is what this is about. But I'm just a dumb professor, apparently our students know all about this stuff :)

I like to tell my self that the grammar and spelling mistakes show you this wasn't written by AI

So sign !

It's what we need in the now, when being welcoming and supportive to others, self-sufficient and expanding a leadership position in science and technology go hand in hand.

Canada's strength has always been its diversity, welcoming people from all over the world and helping them make a home here. This initiative is exactly in line with that philosophy.

On top of that many of those effectively required the right (ie US, in my case a postdoc at MIT) training and to know the right people. Canada is still a top notch high tech training ground but retaining talent in this way is approaching the impossible.

I immigrated to Canada when I was six years-old and a I grew up here, did most of my training here and always wanted to live here. But even 10 years ago when I was looking for permanent positions, Canada had relatively few high tech opportunities.

Research Institute Letter The Honourable Evan Solomon 409 Parliament street Toronto, Ontario M5A 3A1 Dear Mr. Solomon, RE: Canada Needs a National Research Institute to Stop the “Brain Drain” All my friends are geniuses and ...

My PhD student Ty Trusty and a grass roots group of graduate wants to petition the Canada to start a national lab (eg INRIA) in Canada. You can read their rationale here: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... If it resonates with you, like it did me, sign the letter and share forms.gle/NqW7Q5qYkytP...!

Game 6 let’s go jays !!

And density it predicts density too (whoops)

@rishit-dagli.bsky.social did an amazing job on this project. He’s only an undergrad and applying to grad school this year! (so keep an eye out).

Very excited to share VoMP, our surface to volumetric simready asset generator. Our method doesn’t over fit to a simulator, it predicts ground truth (as measured) Young’s modulus and poison’s ratio much more accurately then previous methods.

I do this so I have an excuse to never lift anything in the real-world :) I'm too tired.

They do !!! That’s how I rendered that gif. It’s nice because objects are grouped properly so making changes to one frame propagates appropriately

Thanks!

Im a big proponent of any weight training. I started about a decade ago due to knee and back pain and now, even much older I have no such problems. Important to find a good coach to start though.

Don’t usually post about my non-cs hobbies but I’m proud of this :)

A 440lb deadlift just a few days short of my 46th birthday

I read the new Chair Corner. I'm willing to hold out some hope that these sentiments are genuine. Previous track record makes me nervous tho

www.siggraph.org/chairs-corne...

If you want to prove you can hold a conference that's safe for everyone then STEP ONE should be not to hold it in a place where people's lifestyles are illegal at a federal level.

Summarization of SIGGRAPH Asia Deliberations Mission of SIGGRAPH From here: ACM SIGGRAPH is an international community of researchers, artists, developers, filmmakers, scientists, and business professionals who share a common interest in compute...

EC summary of the SigAsia 2026 decision features some real questionable reasoning

On why no alternative venue ".. it sends the message that we lack confidence in our ability to host international events safely."

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Employment Opportunities — Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Are you looking for a thought-provoking and inventive career at a leading institution?

The University of Toronto Dept. of CS is hiring! We have 3 tenure-stream assistant professor positions open.

Toronto is a great city! Great people, wonderful nature, surprisingly good baseball team, not currently occupied by a US militia. All reasons to apply: web.cs.toronto.edu/employment-o...