Asvin Kumar

Greenhouse Effect xkcd.com/2889

Not to be alarmist but…this is what’s called a six-sigma event, now unfolding in Antarctica. Otherwise known as a once-in-7.5-million-year event. Hang onto your hats. HT @EliotJacobson

Where's the Dong Geurami fan art? 🥺

The story of this campaign cannot be told without telling the story of my incredible friend and campaign manager, Anusha Thotakura @Anusha625. Many people don’t know that this campaign was run by a young, 24 year old Indian-American woman.

I had to make a before and after to really appreciate how good the James Webb Telescope really is.

@vzztu @AlanBovik @docmilanfar Congratulations! 😁😁 I'd love to meet if you're still around when I reach UT.

Successfully defended my #PhD thesis today! Officially Dr. Tu now! 🥳🎓🤩 It’s time to say bye-bye to the greatest advisor @AlanBovik; meanwhile more than happy to share that I will be joining @docmilanfar’s team at Google Research in August!

@CMOfficeUP @myogioffice @myogiadityanath @rajnathsingh @LMC_IECofficial Hypocrisy @ gomti river front near Chattar Manjil

We're on the hunt (clue for tomorrow's story!) for an intern! Full-time, WFH, paid, 3-month stint. You should be curious, research & write well, be extremely online, and know how to do basic video edits. Send us a sample of your writing/vids + resume at 52@fiftytwo.in.

New preprint out at arxiv.org/abs/2202.11241! The streaming industry standard for quality assessment is VMAF, which "fuses" the outputs of smaller/simpler quality models. While VMAF predicts quality well, it's expensive to calculate all these heterogeneous quality models. 1/3

Or start at 0 and give me 1 second for every minute I stay away from it. Resets every night.

My 5 min timer for Instagram would be more interesting if it was 5+3. I get 3 seconds everytime I leave the app.

Data from @IMDb imdb.com/interfaces/

Made with love in @MATLAB :)

So... @shashwat_janus suggested that we create #wordle for movie titles

Mini 🧵3/3 If you don't have a compatible phone, please consider spreading the word. I'm looking to collect videos over the next 1-2 weeks and the success of this project relies on submissions like yours. Please feel free to reply to this tweet or DM me if you have any questions!

Mini 🧵2/3 If you have an iPhone 12/13 or Samsung S10/S10+, please consider submitting any number of videos. Even one makes a difference! The attached link is a detailed call for videos. Please check it out for more info. Thanks in advance! abhinaukumar.github.io/hdr-videos-call