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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 5d

The NVIDIA HiFi team (research.nvidia.com/labs/prl/) is starting our search for summer interns. Are you demonstrably awesome at physics simulation, robotics, scene reconstruction, high-performance numerical methods? DM me your CV.

NVIDIA High Fidelity Simulation Research

research.nvidia.com

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 6d

If you are an instructor and you'd like access to the solution repo, DM me, I'm happy to share.

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 6d

The old assignments in C++ were tricky for students because UofT doesn't teach it in a lot of courses. I'm hoping moving to Python means people can concentrate more on learning concepts rather than syntax.

Setup using pip is much easier as well, and they can optionally run on the GPU using CUDA.

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 6d

This year I'm reworking my physics-based animation course with new assignments in Python (using Torch and NVIDIA Warp). So far it's been a great set of tools to use. For the interested, here's the student code for the first assignment: github.com/dilevin/pba-...

GitHub - dilevin/pba-assignment-fem: Implementing the volumetric finite element method using PyTorch and NVIDIA Warp

Implementing the volumetric finite element method using PyTorch and NVIDIA Warp - dilevin/pba-assignment-fem

github.com

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 6d

😬

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 7d

When you use A.I. for fishing it’s called vibe codding

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 14d

My new number one use for LLMs is, I kid you not, spell and grammar checking

Somehow ChatGPT is much better at correcting my often typo ridden drafts than whatever MS Word is doing.

Turns out if you ask it to make only the minimal required changes, it will abide.

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 18d

New research direction !!! AI really is a trillion dollar market

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 18d

You got to learn about XYZ, that’s more informative then these form letter exchanges used to be :)

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 23d

Sitting in the SIGGRAPH Asia EC town hall.
Meant to be about LGBTQ+ concerns

Currently we are being given tourist info about Malaysia

Starting to think that the whole EC is either incompetent or just doesn't care about the opinions of their constituents.

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Maybe you just need more people ?

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Reposted by David Levin

Cem Yuksel @cemyuksel.com · Sep 5

I am boycotting #SIGGRAPHAsia 2026 because it will be in Malaysia, where there are serious safety concerns for the LGBTQ+ members of our community, thereby excluding them. I will not attend, submit my work to, or perform any reviews for SIGGRAPH Asia 2026.

Yet, I'm excited about #SIGGRAPHAsia 2025!

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’ll grow back

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 18

Not really a comment on quality of talks and more a comment on my own particular mental make up.

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 18

I think my ideal technical talk length on a single topic is 15 minutes. Enough time to get a good sketch of the method but not so much that my attention wanders. After that I really just need to sit with the paper to have any hope of understanding.

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 15

It’s the name of my kraftwerk cover band

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 15

SIGGRAPH over

Tired now

Or Maybe hungry

Off to go solve this mystery.

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 14

This was really fun. Thanks to all the speakers. Would do again, so hopefully SIGGRAPH keeps the workshop program around.

David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 7

Me,Peter Chen and Eitan Grinspun are hosting a SIGGRAPH workshop on reduced-order models. Great keynotes from Maurizio Chiaramonte (Meta), Jernej Barbic (USC) and Mengyu Chu (Peking University) plus a bunch of awesome lightning talks.

Come check it out: roms.news

ROM Workshop at SIGGRAPH 2025

Explore the future of subspace and neural simulation techniques at SIGGRAPH 2025. Hear from top researchers and join the conversation on model reduction.

roms.news

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 13

This morning 9am East Building Room 11

David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 7

Me,Peter Chen and Eitan Grinspun are hosting a SIGGRAPH workshop on reduced-order models. Great keynotes from Maurizio Chiaramonte (Meta), Jernej Barbic (USC) and Mengyu Chu (Peking University) plus a bunch of awesome lightning talks.

Come check it out: roms.news

ROM Workshop at SIGGRAPH 2025

Explore the future of subspace and neural simulation techniques at SIGGRAPH 2025. Hear from top researchers and join the conversation on model reduction.

roms.news

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 12

Happening tomorrow morning !

David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 7

Me,Peter Chen and Eitan Grinspun are hosting a SIGGRAPH workshop on reduced-order models. Great keynotes from Maurizio Chiaramonte (Meta), Jernej Barbic (USC) and Mengyu Chu (Peking University) plus a bunch of awesome lightning talks.

Come check it out: roms.news

ROM Workshop at SIGGRAPH 2025

Explore the future of subspace and neural simulation techniques at SIGGRAPH 2025. Hear from top researchers and join the conversation on model reduction.

roms.news

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 10

This is probably why no one likes the idea to deanonymize the reviews

David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 10

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 preemptively boycotted me … 0 for 4 on submissions this year.

Well played universe !

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 10

It’s like the thing with the decimal point

Europe just does find/replace ./, :)

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · Aug 9

Oh you “cogitated” over this human rights issue ? Well that solves it.

Sheesh …

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