Nick Fox-Gieg
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Nick Fox-Gieg
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Lightning Artist Toolkit Overview (2025)
Video documentation of my dissertation defense, 10 April 2025.
vimeo.com
Defended my PhD this April, and now the dissertation's published--a pipeline for integrating volumetric video and hand-drawn 3D animation, PyTorch and ONNX ML tools for Blender and Unity. Video highlights and link to PDF:
vimeo.com/1083818611
vimeo.com/1083818611
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The "Everyone Is 12 Now" theory is one of the most powerful pop cultural analysis frameworks the internet has ever burped up.
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The "Everyone Is 12 Now" theory is one of the most powerful pop cultural analysis frameworks the internet has ever burped up.
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actually Die Hard is a Cow Tools movie
December 20, 2024 at 12:06 PM
actually Die Hard is a Cow Tools movie
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Superb. One edit particularly drops out to me as a bit of truly sparkling dialogue: the left is the first draft, the second the shooting script by Stoppard
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Superb. One edit particularly drops out to me as a bit of truly sparkling dialogue: the left is the first draft, the second the shooting script by Stoppard
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the world is learning in realtime what the procgen community has known for years
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
the world is learning in realtime what the procgen community has known for years
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extremely scientific diagram for reference
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
extremely scientific diagram for reference
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I heard there was a secret verse
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I heard there was a secret verse
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
That David used to make AI worse
But you don't really want to pub that, do ya
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Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
Of Stranger Things seasons past,
Those Duffer Brothers, harried for years on end
After they plundered King and Spielberg
On the proud back of Netflix
Of Stranger Things seasons past,
Those Duffer Brothers, harried for years on end
After they plundered King and Spielberg
On the proud back of Netflix
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
Of Stranger Things seasons past,
Those Duffer Brothers, harried for years on end
After they plundered King and Spielberg
On the proud back of Netflix
Of Stranger Things seasons past,
Those Duffer Brothers, harried for years on end
After they plundered King and Spielberg
On the proud back of Netflix
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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Larry Hama had his finger on the pulse of the last 50 years of American culture when he wrote that Cobra Commander started out as a used car salesman
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Larry Hama had his finger on the pulse of the last 50 years of American culture when he wrote that Cobra Commander started out as a used car salesman
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It has some games, there weren’t much,
Developers felt afraid to touch,
A small matte metal cube with chamfered grooves yeah,
And even though it all went wrong,
That Kickstarter was so damn strong,
Crowd funded micro-console they call Ouya
Developers felt afraid to touch,
A small matte metal cube with chamfered grooves yeah,
And even though it all went wrong,
That Kickstarter was so damn strong,
Crowd funded micro-console they call Ouya
Now I heard there was a tiny box
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It has some games, there weren’t much,
Developers felt afraid to touch,
A small matte metal cube with chamfered grooves yeah,
And even though it all went wrong,
That Kickstarter was so damn strong,
Crowd funded micro-console they call Ouya
Developers felt afraid to touch,
A small matte metal cube with chamfered grooves yeah,
And even though it all went wrong,
That Kickstarter was so damn strong,
Crowd funded micro-console they call Ouya
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Watched Bladerunner again last night. Would have been so much better if they had gone with the original idea, that instead of origami unicorns, Edward James Olmos’ character had made balloon animals.
“It’s too bad she won’t live;
but then again
SQUEEEK-SQUEEEK-SQUEEEEEEK-SQUEEEEK
Who does?”
“It’s too bad she won’t live;
but then again
SQUEEEK-SQUEEEK-SQUEEEEEEK-SQUEEEEK
Who does?”
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Watched Bladerunner again last night. Would have been so much better if they had gone with the original idea, that instead of origami unicorns, Edward James Olmos’ character had made balloon animals.
“It’s too bad she won’t live;
but then again
SQUEEEK-SQUEEEK-SQUEEEEEEK-SQUEEEEK
Who does?”
“It’s too bad she won’t live;
but then again
SQUEEEK-SQUEEEK-SQUEEEEEEK-SQUEEEEK
Who does?”
Of all the adversarial default settings that come with a recent Windows install, this has always struck me as the weirdest
On Windows 11 is there any way to make it so the search box on the taskbar only searches my computer, instead of doing a motherfucking internet search? Have they seriously removed the ability to only search this machine?
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Of all the adversarial default settings that come with a recent Windows install, this has always struck me as the weirdest
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it’s 2025 everybody talks to things way less conscious than muppets , get with it
Once again, it’s weird that our media conducts interviews with Muppets as if they are autonomous individuals. Also, my lawn is something you should get off
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
it’s 2025 everybody talks to things way less conscious than muppets , get with it
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happy thanksgiving or whatever
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
happy thanksgiving or whatever
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Nvidia graphics acceleration working on the Raspberry Pi 5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPTY...
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Nvidia graphics acceleration working on the Raspberry Pi 5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPTY...
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new personality type based on ranking top four Star Wars episodes
"oh, I'm a 4516"
"that's so rare"
"oh, I'm a 4516"
"that's so rare"
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
new personality type based on ranking top four Star Wars episodes
"oh, I'm a 4516"
"that's so rare"
"oh, I'm a 4516"
"that's so rare"
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I'd appreciate if any audio tech folks could help circulate this exciting call for a fully-funded PhD position working in multichannel audio design for galleries.
It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery'
www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...
It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery'
www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I'd appreciate if any audio tech folks could help circulate this exciting call for a fully-funded PhD position working in multichannel audio design for galleries.
It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery'
www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...
It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery'
www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...
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Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
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The artist formerly known as Prince was a beta tester for the first Oregon Trail (he was in third grade at the school near the developers)
July 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The artist formerly known as Prince was a beta tester for the first Oregon Trail (he was in third grade at the school near the developers)
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Version 0.1.7 of p5.plotSvg, a p5.js library for plotter-oriented SVG export, has been released: github.com/golanlevin/p... #p5js #plotterArt
GitHub - golanlevin/p5.plotSvg: A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting.
A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting. - GitHub - golanlevin/p5.plotSvg: A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting.
github.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Version 0.1.7 of p5.plotSvg, a p5.js library for plotter-oriented SVG export, has been released: github.com/golanlevin/p... #p5js #plotterArt
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The stretchable, procedural single-stroke monospace font created by Kiel Mutschelknaus for his "Space Type Generator" has been added to my archive of p5.js single-line type resources: github.com/golanlevin/p...
November 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The stretchable, procedural single-stroke monospace font created by Kiel Mutschelknaus for his "Space Type Generator" has been added to my archive of p5.js single-line type resources: github.com/golanlevin/p...
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this weekend I embark upon a journey to make p5.strands work in WebGPU. lets see if our backend-agnostic architecture holds up like it was designed to 🤞
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
this weekend I embark upon a journey to make p5.strands work in WebGPU. lets see if our backend-agnostic architecture holds up like it was designed to 🤞
Perfect example of why you shouldn't trust raw generative LLM output (vs. analytical output with links to sources)...a single unfortunate--yet statistically likely--word choice here turns Jolene into a melting eldritch horror
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Perfect example of why you shouldn't trust raw generative LLM output (vs. analytical output with links to sources)...a single unfortunate--yet statistically likely--word choice here turns Jolene into a melting eldritch horror
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PULLET TRAIN
A train crew found a loose chicken on an N train this morning—and couldn’t get it to leave.
Loose chicken fouls N train as subway stowaway slows morning commute
A loose chicken gave new meaning to “free range,” scoring a gratis subway ride to Coney Island on the N train Thursday morning after it was discovered fouling a subway car in storage.
www.nydailynews.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
PULLET TRAIN
"...Fresh as harvest day!" Why is the ancient fishmonger-bot's spiel such a compelling earworm
tfw you're more than man, more than machine, and more than a fusion of the two but also you're the guy who works the freezer in food storage and your job sucks
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"...Fresh as harvest day!" Why is the ancient fishmonger-bot's spiel such a compelling earworm