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Laura Reznikov 
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Engineering Manager for Intel’s Ray Tracing Kernel Libraries team, RIT Adjunct, RTRT/PBR geek - she/her @TheAnimator@mastodon.gamedev.place
Game DeveloperOakland, CAJoined July 2007
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With talk of custom engines dying + recent layoffs, I want to call out there are a couple non-frozen spots on our project at ZOS (new custom engine) that really need filling
If you're an animation programmer, we want to hear from you yesterday. Art pipeline programmer too. DM me
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Woke up this morning and let it set in that I’m taking all of next week off to destress, get my heart rate down, and see a Dr about it. I’m looking forward to crafts and video games. It’s been a stressful time to be an engineering manager - time to recharge.
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Been doing realtime graphics for ages, but never actually implemented hot shader reloading. Started writing a very lightweight abstraction for #Vulkan and took that as an opportunity to do exactly that. Makes things so much easier :)
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Cool role with a cool manager
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Hey folks - I have a new job opening up in Beaverton OR reporting to and working with me! If you’ve got mad UIKit/iOS developer skills, and are interested in building prototypes for creative workflows, I’d love to talk to you!
jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/
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This article primarily cites the pandemic, but I also see the current layoffs making people reflect on the ROI of tech workism.
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Ok, Heart. You win. I’ll take a break.
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Every email in my inbox has a high priority exclamation mark
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I'm proud to report that the Open MaterialX Graph Editor has landed in MaterialX main! Congratulations to my colleague Emma Holthouser on this important step forward, and we look forward to additional community collaborations on this project in the future. github.com/AcademySoftwar
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My new auto-reply for work should just be “I’m either already working on it, or in a mental health crisis because I’m not”
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1/Math for Machine Learning and Data Science is now available on Coursera! Taught by , this gives an intuitive understanding of the most important math concepts for AI.
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See how Intel Open Volume Kernel Library (Open VKL) improved #rendering performance and delivered 6.1x rendering speedup. Open VKL is part of the #oneAPI Rendering Toolkit, providing a suite of advanced open source #raytracing libraries. intel.ly/3iYOsj3
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The things that are going on here in the US are insane to me. Adults spending tax payer money to make teachers’ and children’s lives worse. There are so many things we could be doing to make peoples‘ lives better instead.
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1. Florida teachers are being told to remove all books from their classroom libraries OR FACE FELONY PROSECUTION
The new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.
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Covid, politics, war, inflation, layoffs… I can’t remember a time I was more stressed. Under this stress, it’s good to have reminders to be conscious of how we communicate and work with others.
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When developing graphics techniques for real-time, how often are you adapting something you may have first seen in ‘offline’ rendering?
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Unsolicited advice: create a voltron rn. []
2x in my career, I put all my eggs in a single supporters basket. Then when they moved on my clout faded & I had to rebuild. I created a voltron to ensure my support network & future was resilient. wherewithall.com/resources/Mana
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Congrats to on the open source release of xSTUDIO! The project will now be hosted at the ASWF as part of Open Review Initiative, which is working to build a unified open source toolset for playback, review and approval.
#aswf #opensource #vfx twitter.com/dneg/status/16
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High Performance Graphics is coming to Delft, Netherlands, on June 26-28, 2023 (co-located with ) Virtual attendance details TBD.
Paper abstracts: April 12
Paper submissions: April 17
Poster submissions: May 15
More info: highperformancegraphics.org/2023/call-for-
See you at HPG!
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I’m a little over 2 weeks “post” covid and still have fog and major fatigue. Doing physical therapy has felt impossible, so I started checking my heart rate. Just walking to the kitchen puts me at 120bpm, the slightest exercise and I’m over 150. This is not like a cold or flu.
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Friday is the last day to submit to speak at Open Source Forum, which will be Feb. 16th in LA at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures!
If you have a talk that would be of interest to open source developers in the motion picture industry, submit it at events.linuxfoundation.org/aswf-open-sour!
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All the time.
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Does anyone else fantasize about freezing time for a few months, for thinking and learning, without expectations, responsibilities, or distractions?
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New ideas or innovative applications of existing projects
Emerging technologies: virtual production, AI, metaverse, etc.
Open source program management BKMs
Production use cases/behind the scenes
Panel discussions on prominent industry topics
DEI
Education and mentorship
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Are you active in Open Source? is seeking speakers for their Open Source Forum 2/16/2023.
events.linuxfoundation.org/aswf-open-sour
#ASWF #opensource #vfx #virtualproduction #Metaverse
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Next week, we will read and discuss Jacco Bikker's lecture slides to try to understand the ReSTIR algorithm
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Following the publishing of our latest performance deep-dive, we found ourselves really impressed with the rendering performance seen from ' Arc GPUs, and think they deserve highlighting.
techgage.com/news/intel-arc
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Help people see your motivations so they might share them.
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Telling people the “why” of anything you’re doing, or want them to do, is highly underrated.
Even if you don’t think you need to explain yourself.
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Just a geek with a new Cricut
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Update: sense of smell slowly coming back but I’m definitely feeling some fatigue and brain fog still
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It's submission season! Read our SIGGRAPH RCDC guide on how to write your first SIGGRAPH paper:
research.siggraph.org/blog/guides/wr
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Do you hear that kids? The BEST AR!... Thanks Ian!! twitter.com/hmltn/status/1
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Kick of your 2023 with some inspiring words from the "Women in Games" event hosted by our friends from
youtube.com/watch?v=xzmn_i #FBF #TBT
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Make a name for yourself in the #CG world by becoming a #SIGGRAPH2023 Student Volunteer Team Leader 🤩 Help lead a diverse, motivated group of young professionals while supporting the 50th conference celebration. Apply by 19 Jan. #ProudToBeSV bit.ly/3VAO0W8
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Well, our batteries lasted a respectable 36 hours but we still don’t have power :(
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Hey you! Looking to get into #gamedev in 2023? I made this resource doc for a talk I gave last year that might be helpful: bit.ly/rbgamedevresou
It includes:
📚 Game dev book recs
💼 Job sites
💬GDC talks
🎉and more!
I plan to keep updating this, so stay tuned 💃
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Before the term starts tomorrow I managed to release a new version of HDRView (my #research oriented #ImageEditor for examining, comparing, and manipulating #HighDynamicRange #HDR images).
github.com/wkjarosz/hdrvi
retweets appreciated
#graphics, #rendering, #opensource, #foss
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So, I got covid last week. It’s been pretty mild, but today I lost smell and things seem slow motion, at least for my brain. Trying to find data on how covid affects folks with ADHD is proving difficult. Any experiences?
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