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Ken Perlin
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Ken Perlin writes Ken's Blog, a personal blog at blog.kenperlin.com about culture and philosophy. Since 2010, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Apple invents time machine”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Apple invents time machine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-26
- The disappearing inventor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-22
What Hacker News says?
http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/ http://blog.kenperlin.com/ http://blog.vixra.org/ http://www.nature.com/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/science/publicati... http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ http://lwn.net/ http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/transcriptions.... http://c2.com/cgi/wiki if you're into seeing how the Elders thought about computing http://…
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on “What are the most intellectually stimulating websites you know of?”Submitted The non-linearity of productivity as a story · 192 points
HN discussionalong this line, “Gravity has no friends.” http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=2068
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on “Obituary for Cyc”Submitted The disappearing inventor as a story · 140 points
HN discussionDonald Norman and Ben Shneiderman are old friends and colleagues. https://www.nngroup.com/news/item/hci-pioneers-photos/ NN/g News; HCI Pioneers Photos; Announcements; September 8, 2015 Professor Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland) is one of the founders of the discipline of human-computer interaction (HCI) and has produced breakthrough research and influential textbooks since the early 1980s. He is also an acc…
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on “Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)”Submitted VR is the opposite of cinema as a story · 83 points
HN discussionSince 1996, Ken Perlin has published a whole bunch of extremely cool Java applet demos on his web page, which he uses to teach his students at NYU and anyone who wanted to learn Java and computer graphics. One of his demos was a procedural planet generator! I learned a lot from his papers and demo code, and based the design of The Sims character animation system on his Improv project. https://mrl.cs.nyu.edu/~perlin/…
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on “Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise”Submitted Antimarket opportunities as a story · 42 points
HN discussionActually, the wide-angle optics came from Luckey's professor, Mark Bolas [1,2]. Luckey combined it with the head angle tracking and a vastly polished design for the unit, though. [1] http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/diy/fov2go-viewer/ [2] http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=14708
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on “Zenimax Sues Oculus”Submitted Forever font as a story · 37 points
HN discussionTranslation of Apples pathetic attempt to compete, not by innovation, but by litigation - Waaahan, Samsung made a better phone, quick call my lawyers. Go read this before blindly supporting Apple and it's patents - http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=9227 Also, patent for rectangle with rounded edges, or slide to unlock! I wouldn't be surprised if Apple's next patent is on how to wank. That should make it some serious dough
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on “Translation of Samsung's Response”Submitted Apple invents time machine as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThat's a point Ben Shneiderman insisted on making in 1983, when he named his Human Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland HCIL instead of CHIL, where I worked with him from 1986-1990. Do you have any citations of European or other labs using that human-first convention before 1983? University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland_Human%E... B…
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on “The future of programming: Research at CHI 2023”Submitted Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Soon everybody will as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFrom the Ken Perlin blog: http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=12842 .
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on “[editable] Procedurally Generated Fantasy Planet in WebGL”Submitted Ken Perlin Plays With WebGL as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perlin Noise revisited, part 4 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted VR is the opposite of cinema as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unfont Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clothes Are Technology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another world as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pagerank and radiosity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Constraints and possibilities as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virtual Fidelity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pre-deadline superpower as a story · 1 points
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