After twelve years, finally retiring the cheese grater Mac Pro. With all the upgrades, I would have been happy continuing to use it indefinitely but the mounting lack of software support forced my hand.
#Apple really had a thing going here with the old Pros. I'm still dubious about whether I'll use the Studio replacement even half as long, but at least it draws a lot less power.
Lots of folks warning that overreliance on AIs can lead to bias.
But that can sound a bit abstract, so let's just leave these examples here.
A 🧵 about volumetric path tracing 1/n:
Our 2019 SIGGRAPH paper (with Bailey Miller and @iliyang) on the null-scattering path integral lays out how to perform unbiased volumetric path tracing with MIS, null-scattering and all the bells and whistles, but it is admittedly hard to grasp due to our need for being mathematically rigorous in the paper:
https://cs.dartmouth.edu/~wjarosz/publications/miller19null.html
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