Michael Becker
@michae1becker
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Staff Software Engineer @DisneyStudios - Research and Innovation // pursuer of strange realities, AR/VR, VFX, art, shiny things // he/him ☿️
Seattle, WA
Joined September 2010
Polymarket 🤝 Yahoo We’re excited to announce Polymarket is now the exclusive prediction market partner for Yahoo Finance.
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Which is to say: we already HAVE GenAI-informed workflows today, and will have more in the future. But the concept of prompting a blockbuster shot will never, ever, EVER happen
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The AI maximalist crowd seems to be missing the point, which is: at the point that AI converges with CG's degree of directability, fine tweaking, creative control and knob-fiddling, it'll just be called... VFX (exactly as the ML-full denoising and crowd sim workflows are today)
a 100% AI workflow will never achieve this attention to details, human touch is essential, change my mind
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did you know: i have a page on my website breaking down a bunch of the shader techniques that i use almost daily
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The notion that AI will SAVE us from fake work is just... no notes. Flawless thinking here.
Sam Altman says Slack has many positives, but it creates endless fake work We need an AI-native productivity suite to replace docs, slides, email, and Slack Not add-on features, but trusted agents that handle work and only escalate when needed This finally feels within reach
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This should be litigable
"after 11 technical interviews" "your work has been accepted into our codebase" interviews are getting out of hand
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Pleasure that envelops you. Pleasure you've never felt before. Discover the future of pleasure with TENGA FLIP 360 🚀
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shutdown causes alt currency rally because the financial system is breaking down end of shutdown ALSO causes alt currency rally because, well, the financial system is still breaking down (more gradually) what a sight
News that the government shutdown is ending sent stock futures, gold, silver, and Bitcoin rallying. The deal means it’s back to business as usual in Washington, D.C. Deficits and inflation will rise, and investors will continue to seek alternatives to depreciating U.S. dollars.
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I genuinely don't understand the confusion. Did people assume some of the water was real?
they mention in Fire and Water they didnt shoot a single second of footage in actual open water lool thats insane
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One McQuarrie's best scripts, too, which is saying a lot
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) was sunk by confusing marketing and a forgettable title, yet it turned out to be one of the smartest and most entertaining sci-fi films of the last decade. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at their absolute best.
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When performance meets style, it looks like this. JAXXON, the choice of athletes who never compromise.
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NR at the rec of my manager. Good stuff. Not every company can afford Netflix's culture but computing and making sense of the delta between your employer (or your management style) and theirs is a useful exercise
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Weird horseshoe theory remains undefeated
Peter Thiel today: “Boomers are strangely uncurious about how the world is not really working for their kids. It’s always hard to know how much bad faith there is or how bad the actors are. I think it’s odd that people thought it was odd that I was complaining about student debt
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How it feels going grocery shopping at 4:30pm in November
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They’re awful but Apple making good TV shows and completely faceplanting on AI makes them slightly more likable.
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Ever wanted to sort Shopify product swatches by revenue? You're about to.
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This is also why we NEED (the right kind of) gatekeepers and always will
Hot take: with low hanging TIkTok’s and random dance videos getting millions of views, we’re back to quality over quantify. I genuinely believe a great piece of material with 500 views will do more for you if the right person sees it than a dumb piece of “content” with 5 million
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I need a writeup about the quest charging debacle. why does it lose all charge so quickly? why does a gust of wind nudge it so it stops charging on the dock? how has it been a near-decade of wireless charging and these things still suck so much?
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this BTS clip somehow managed to do even more bad PR / psychic damage than the original ad
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Better UX than anything in minority report
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