David Levin
@diwlevin.bsky.social
Sometimes professor sometimes nvidia research scientist all-the-time loud mouth
Opinions are my own and do not represent either of my employers
Opinions are my own and do not represent either of my employers
When this baby hits 88 revolutions per minute your going to see some serious sh!t.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
When this baby hits 88 revolutions per minute your going to see some serious sh!t.
From the Verge … there’s a word for this, when someone claims they own your entire personhood. It eludes me …
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
From the Verge … there’s a word for this, when someone claims they own your entire personhood. It eludes me …
Game 6 let’s go jays !!
November 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Game 6 let’s go jays !!
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
A 440lb deadlift just a few days short of my 46th birthday
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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
A 440lb deadlift just a few days short of my 46th birthday
As part of my new class assignments I made a simple USD writer for saving animations of dynamic triangle meshes. USD has many issues but it’s the best format I’ve found for sharing scenes like this.
github.com/dilevin/usdm...
github.com/dilevin/usdm...
October 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
As part of my new class assignments I made a simple USD writer for saving animations of dynamic triangle meshes. USD has many issues but it’s the best format I’ve found for sharing scenes like this.
github.com/dilevin/usdm...
github.com/dilevin/usdm...
Below is my response to being invited to serve on the technical papers committee at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 (in Malaysia)
TLDR It's a no.
TLDR It's a no.
September 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Below is my response to being invited to serve on the technical papers committee at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 (in Malaysia)
TLDR It's a no.
TLDR It's a no.
When you sign into Microsoft 360 this dystopian vision of the future is what greets you. Welcome to your office tools, AI is stalking you.
August 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
When you sign into Microsoft 360 this dystopian vision of the future is what greets you. Welcome to your office tools, AI is stalking you.
It’s just pancake batter and blue house paint #clonehigh
May 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It’s just pancake batter and blue house paint #clonehigh
My workstation 10 days before the SigAsia deadline. Yes that is a hammer.
Don’t worry I’m a professional
Don’t worry I’m a professional
May 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My workstation 10 days before the SigAsia deadline. Yes that is a hammer.
Don’t worry I’m a professional
Don’t worry I’m a professional
What did I do to Apples AI image playground to deserve this?
Maybe wrecking self esteem is a feature
Maybe wrecking self esteem is a feature
May 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What did I do to Apples AI image playground to deserve this?
Maybe wrecking self esteem is a feature
Maybe wrecking self esteem is a feature
Post election celebratory lunch
April 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Post election celebratory lunch
@uoftcompsci.bsky.social
Since I’ve got you here, don’t you think it’s time you got off of X?
Not sure if you know but the guy who benefits from it is not that great
Since I’ve got you here, don’t you think it’s time you got off of X?
Not sure if you know but the guy who benefits from it is not that great
March 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
@uoftcompsci.bsky.social
Since I’ve got you here, don’t you think it’s time you got off of X?
Not sure if you know but the guy who benefits from it is not that great
Since I’ve got you here, don’t you think it’s time you got off of X?
Not sure if you know but the guy who benefits from it is not that great
At least there’s still the Oscar’s during the apocalypse
March 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
At least there’s still the Oscar’s during the apocalypse
Yeah it’s a real mystery …
Narrator: “it was not, in fact, a mystery”
Narrator: “it was not, in fact, a mystery”
February 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Yeah it’s a real mystery …
Narrator: “it was not, in fact, a mystery”
Narrator: “it was not, in fact, a mystery”
Yikes ! Going to have to clean it up a bit I guess 🙃
February 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Yikes ! Going to have to clean it up a bit I guess 🙃
Today the word technologist died.
February 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Today the word technologist died.
I guess sometimes you’ve gotta break some eggs to get more cheaper eggs ?
Truly the dumbest era of US politics
Truly the dumbest era of US politics
February 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I guess sometimes you’ve gotta break some eggs to get more cheaper eggs ?
Truly the dumbest era of US politics
Truly the dumbest era of US politics
Still got a soft spot for these old David Baraff papers. This paper was the first that made the connection between matrix sparsity and graph structure explicit for me and showed how that can lead to fast algorithms
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
January 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Still got a soft spot for these old David Baraff papers. This paper was the first that made the connection between matrix sparsity and graph structure explicit for me and showed how that can lead to fast algorithms
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
The next infrastructure initiative is called duck tales and it involves taking wheelbarrows of cash from the government straight to the broligarchy’s money bins
January 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The next infrastructure initiative is called duck tales and it involves taking wheelbarrows of cash from the government straight to the broligarchy’s money bins
Well if this isn’t the dumpster calling the cyber truck ugly …
January 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Well if this isn’t the dumpster calling the cyber truck ugly …
The best part are the buttons. Do they take you to an FAQ or the website to a discount pharmacy ... who knows ?
January 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
The best part are the buttons. Do they take you to an FAQ or the website to a discount pharmacy ... who knows ?
Good news everybody! Someone invented time travel, because the SIGGRAPH 2025 website looks like something I would've designed in 1991.
January 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Good news everybody! Someone invented time travel, because the SIGGRAPH 2025 website looks like something I would've designed in 1991.
I thought I was done with Lego but Santa decided Lego wasn’t done with me
January 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I thought I was done with Lego but Santa decided Lego wasn’t done with me
Forgot how zen building Lego is. This is the first Lego set I’ve built in years and it was thoroughly enjoyable.
December 23, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Forgot how zen building Lego is. This is the first Lego set I’ve built in years and it was thoroughly enjoyable.