Father of twin girls, passionate about Computer Graphics, AI and other Tech, Curious, Strong opinions, weakly held.
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Sebastian Sylwan retweeted
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
Sebastian Sylwan retweeted
For @SinnersMovie, Michael Ralla and Pepe Valencia brought a steam train to their ideal filming location — without moving production across America.
Using drone scouting, RealityScan, and Unreal Engine, they quickly iterated and shared previs on set.
Watch the Fireside Chat: youtu.be/lUKR7lZoFYI
Sebastian Sylwan retweeted
Producer Chris DeFaria on Creator Economy and Strategy Behind Startup Chronicle Studios: ‘We’re Trying to Invert the Development Process’ #FMX2025 variety.com/2025/artisans/gl… via @variety
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Prime Focus Ltd. Expands with Strategic Merger! | MCap 3,034.37 Cr | PE 15.07
Prime Focus Ltd. completes a merger to boost AI in media! 🚀
🔑 Key Points:
- Prime Focus Limited (PFL) announced the completion of a merger between its step-down subsidiary Brahma Merger Sub Inc. and Metaphysic Inc. on February 14, 2025.
- Metaphysic Inc. has a turnover of $4 million for the fiscal year ending December 2023.
- Brahma Merger Sub Inc. was incorporated on February 4, 2025, and has no turnover to date.
- The merger aims to enhance Brahma's technology and AI capabilities in the media and entertainment industry.
- Post-merger, Double Negative Holdings Limited will hold 90.91% and Metaphysic Inc. will hold 9.09% of shares in Brahma AI Holdings Limited.
- There is no change in the shareholding pattern of Prime Focus Limited as a result of this merger.
- The merger was completed as an all-share transaction.
🔹Company Profile:
Name: PRIME FOCUS LTD
Symbol: PFOCUS, BSE:532748
PE: 15.07
Market Cap: ₹3,034.37 Cr. == Approx. $0.36 B
Sector: Media, Entertainment & Publication - Media & Entertainment
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Sebastian Sylwan retweeted
(🧵NO ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS): To answer the question "What does the future hold for 𝑆𝐀𝑅𝑆-𝐂𝑂𝑉-𝟐?" it's worth examining how predictable its evolutionary trajectory has been so far. Evolution is stochastic, but stochastic processes can still yield predictions. (1/)
Sebastian Sylwan retweeted
Introducing, the Paul Debevec long read, at @beforesmag.
I'm sure many people know @debfx's incredible influence on VFX. At @SIGGRAPHAsia I got the chance to sit down with him to discuss a discreet portion of his work at Google & at Netflix.
beforesandafters.com/2024/04…
Sebastian Sylwan retweeted
A series of scary graphs about how temperature anomalies for 2023 compare to other years. Yikes. 📈
Its hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are at the moment. They have blown past anything we've previously experienced by a huge margin.
Over at The Climate Brink, we try and visualize this summer of extremes in seven charts. theclimatebrink.com/p/visual…
Sebastian Sylwan retweeted
At DigiPro 2023, we’ll present Magenta Green Screen, a new compositing technique designed to record accurate alpha channels in an LED volume and to collect ground truth training data for natural image matting algorithms. See you there and @SIGGRAPH! dmsm.github.io/magenta-green…
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I hit a bug in the Attention formula that’s been overlooked for 8+ years. All Transformer models (GPT, LLaMA, etc) are affected.
Researchers isolated the bug last month – but they missed a simple solution…
Why LLM designers should stop using Softmax 👇
evanmiller.org/attention-is-…
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This is a letter Feynman wrote to a former student who wrote congratulating him for the Nobel. I’ve posted it before but I really find it worth it to read especially as a student or early stage research person.
This! 👇Focus on your thing and keep an eye on AI and how it will impact your field and how you can adapt it, rather than dropping everything and jumping 3 (hallucinated) feet in!!!
Love that Donald Knuth saw some ChatGPT responses, played with their implications for a bit, and then went "Ok, that's enough AI stuff, back to binomial coefficients!" That's focus. (via: cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatG…)
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In Paris, a new “Everything Is Fine” gif is born teapaw.org/marjo_beb/status/16395…
Sebastian Sylwan retweeted
Someday an animated movie has to be nominated for best production design. What we do is NO different than what is done in live action. (Climbs down off soapbox) #productiondesign #animationiscinema
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👀Two early papers find the effects of generative AI on knowledge work are completely unprecedented in modern history
Separate studies of both writers and programmers find 50% increases in productivity with AI, and higher performance and satisfaction. And this is just the start.
After 12+ yrs of work (with longtime help from Dave Gouge), I presented with my friend @StephenFMay (who did a lot of work to make it happen) the very first VES Emerging Technology Award this week! Finally VFX technologists get recognized with and by their peers! @VFXSociety
