Ilya Chugunov
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Ilya Chugunov
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Computational Photography Researcher @ Adobe, previously Princeton PhD: https://ilyac.info

I sometimes do a regular photography: http://instagram.com/_ilya_c

Our lab: https://light.princeton.edu/
Maybe I'm just missing info, but it feels like ST doesn't do a great job of capturing the value it creates. We have a bunch of luxury apartments going up in Redmond, with a lot of the value created by the light rail station, but I don't see this money going back to ST?
August 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
but socialism bad, and progressive = socialism
June 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
i like how the pickle bags also come with a free shot of pickle juice at the bottom
June 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
and then there’s the fun question of who is on the hook for paying for repairs
June 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
In terms of downtown wayfinding I feel like a couple of these badbois pointing towards pike's place/closest light rail station/other attractions would do 99.9% of the work of a digital display
June 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Free wifi throughout downtown is a great idea, but in NYC a lot of these kiosks quickly turned into
(a) at best a nice graffiti art installation
(b) at worst yet another thing that made the sidewalk narrower and harder to roll a cart/stoller through
June 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
laddning fast ⚡
June 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
honestly the most I’ve ever been impressed by an LLM was when chatgpt found a meme I saw a couple years ago based on my my absolutely deranged vague description of what animals / visual elements were in it
June 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
For academia (particularly graphics/CV folks) it’s also a hard tradeoff. Why spend time figuring out data capture and low-level camera stuff when generative AI is right there.
May 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
You’d be surprised how small the publishing circle of computational photography is. The best/most interesting methods get implemented into products, but if something is too productizable it’s hard to find time/willingness to publish it.
May 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
> amazing comp photo paper
> looks inside
> 3 citations
May 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
So what you’re saying is I should live in a giant mega RV
May 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
this is made more tragic by the fact that the new electrified caltrain absolutely slaps
May 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
one of these places has a land shortage with average rents for a 1bd hovering around 3k/month
May 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Versus a random station I found scrolling google maps:
May 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
well maybe future companies should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and buy a government too
April 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM