iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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I3D Symposium @i3dsymposium.org · 06/07/2026

Kayvon Fatahalian's incredible I3D 2026 Keynote: "Let's not forget... Creating great Interactive 3D worlds requires designing great interactions." is now available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/2saysRbaOX0. #I3D2026

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 22/06/2026

It’s my birthday! I have one humble gift request: your last AI image prompt. No context. No cheating. Thank u bb

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 22/06/2026

I’m not surprised. You build for the audience that you think you can sell to, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Kostas Anagnostou @kostasanagnostou.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The Minimal Retroreflective Microfacet Model jcgt.org/published/00...

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 20/05/2026

This has me thinking. Lmk if it has you, too, thinking

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 20/05/2026

Google’s presser was so good that I’m begrudgingly looking up XLA tutorials and considering changing my online handle from SIMD Crawford to Crossbarbra Streisand

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I3D Symposium @i3dsymposium.org · 13/05/2026

We're starting today! #I3D2026

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 11/05/2026

I can think of very few times where “appeasement towards the humanities” in engineering disciplines has yielded benefits in the long run. Unicode comes to mind, and it may well be that AI development benefits from a clear prompt like “how do we represent X in code?” but I can’t see that attitude now

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 10/05/2026

The majority of practical ML work is getting a lot of data through the network in reasonable time, and keeping all cores pegged. Tweaking parameters happens comparatively less. Most significant generational leaps in ML hardware since ~2016 were arch changes to resolve bandwidth bottlenecks

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 09/05/2026

This (what I do for a living), along with my ethnicity, are impossible to discuss online, doubly so with people who show up online anonymously. I used to file these things in a little dropbox folder called “hatemail corpus”, but it just became too much work

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 09/05/2026

that’s because you’re a terrible friend. sub-standard in every way

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 09/05/2026

I was reluctant to take the role of General co-Chair for I3D in a year I was switching jobs and having a child, but people’s willingness to lovingly contribute was something I simply didn’t account for. The program is amazing. I hope you show up. i3dsymposium.org

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 09/05/2026

I’m beginning to wonder if this attitude is equally distributed. Where I come from, leftism doesn’t entail populism, and there’s hardly any mysticism about the harms of AI

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 08/05/2026

Gah I wish I could be there this year

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 05/05/2026

Huge news: Naty Hoffman will be speaking at I3D 2026. I spent a lot of time brainstorming with him on the appropriate talk to give on the year he retires, and I think what he has is something every researcher will need to hear. Sorry for hyping, but I’m pumped.

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

New post on data centers and land use, where I go into my manifesto for why we should trust farmers less open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...

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Data center land use issues are fake

We have plenty of land, data centers provide more revenue per unit area than any other building, and we should have way less farmland

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I3D Symposium @i3dsymposium.org · 01/05/2026

We’re excited to welcome Kayvon Fatahalian as a keynote speaker at I3D 2026. More details: i3dsymposium.org/2026/keynote... Register here: i3dsymposium.org/2026/registr...

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Keynote Presentations | I3D 2026

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 01/05/2026

Thank fuck for @mikewoods.xyz, without whom I would’ve let this cognitive dissonance of seeing this guitar displayed in a Denmark street shop just slide

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 01/05/2026

Last year I became the caretaker of a 1991 Firebird previously used by Mark Weber of Pulp, during DIFFERENT CLASS, THIS IS HARDCORE and WE LOVE LIFE. I’d like to hang it on a wall, but Firebirds are impossible to hang, so I am forced to play it.

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 29/04/2026

Graphics / Games students: Sign up to volunteer at @i3dsymposium.org! We're looking for student volunteers for the duration of the conference. Priority will be given to students local to the bay area. DM me or email general@i3dsymposium.org .

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I3D Symposium @i3dsymposium.org · 28/04/2026

Watch the Papers Preview video for I3D 2026! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWJx... More info on the conference and registration at our website: i3dsymposium.org/2026/ #I3D2026

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I3D 2026 Papers Preview

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 27/04/2026

I must’ve played SCII a total of 500 hours. I learned composition, writing, and sketching from it.

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 27/04/2026

She prefers the sound of a BBD over a PT2399 and a transistor fuzz over opamp. Fucking snob

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 27/04/2026

Counting my blessings: My very young human is fascinated by me playing music. This means I’ve gotten a lot better this past 2 months

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Will Smith @willsmithvision.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Excited to announce our latest (submitted to) SIGBOVIK 2026 @harryqbovik.bsky.social paper: "SchmidhubAI: Accurate Historical Paper Attribution". We built an AI system that, given any modern AI paper, automatically determines which of its ideas were already published by Jürgen Schmidhuber.

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 26/03/2026

the above is still true for python DSLs, but we managed to have Pytorch JIT and Warp be effective subsets with enough context. But I’d love an example. Not that it matters. It doesn’t.

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 26/03/2026

Not that it matters, but I’m now curious

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 26/03/2026

I don’t even mean that extremely. but the cost of maintaining a new compiler and integrating a new language with new edge cases, while managing a sweeping refactor for code that’s entirely out of distribution, is a lot of engineering anti-patterns to fight given the new landscape

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 26/03/2026

You have to give Tim credit for being a pragmatist too. A lot has changed since December

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 26/03/2026

I can’t share the source, but multiple people with firsthand knowledge confirmed it.

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 26/03/2026

So fast that I get to stand at the event horizon and call my buddies on either side on a landline

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 26/03/2026

I’m sad to have to push myself away from thinking about programming tools. It’s a subject I love, have built immensely on top of, but no longer an abstraction worth pursuing, unless building hardware

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 26/03/2026

1. Sad that the Verse programming language is cancelled. It had some brilliant ideas that got tainted by only being available in lisp-likes 2. Beyond sentimental value, it doesn’t matter. Programming languages don’t matter anymore

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 19/03/2026

sed -i '' 's/❎ Have Child/✅ Have Child/g' TODO.txt

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I3D Symposium @i3dsymposium.org · 03/03/2026

The Registration for I3D 2026 is now open! Early bird prices are available until 17th of April, so make sure to register by then for the best price! View the full details at: i3dsymposium.org/2026/registr... #I3D2026

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 09/02/2026

also when this is RIGHT THERE

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Being interdisciplinary mostly means everyone agrees your work is interesting but not for their journal.

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 20/01/2026

Chairing a conference is basically a flex of soft skills, what with writing soliciting emails, fitting a budget, and enforcing deadlines. No wonder scientists hate it.

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Has there even been a better example of externalities? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/t...

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Weight-Loss Drugs Could Save U.S. Airlines $580 Million Per Year

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 19/01/2026

The coming @i3dsymposium.org will take place this May on the Lucasfilm campus in SF. I will be serving as General Co-Chair. We rely on industry collaborations and sponsorships to keep the quality high. If you’re in a position to make I3D better, email: info@omershapira.com. i3dsymposium.org/2026/

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hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

One of my favorite findings: Positional embeddings are just training wheels. They help convergence but hurt long-context generalization. We found that if you simply delete them after pretraining and recalibrate for <1% of the original budget, you unlock massive context windows. Smarter, not harder.

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 12/01/2026

C++ accomplished that around 1994

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 06/01/2026

Here’s my playlist of 50 bangers (not anthems) from 2025. Have a listen, maybe you’ll hear something you missed. Happy new year. Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/3xy...

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OS 2025 : 50

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Yuval Pinter @uvp.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

who decided to call it "computational social science" and not "virtue signal processing"

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