Computing Life

Technical notes on KinectFusion SDK: understanding WorldToCamera and WorldToVolume matrices, aligning RGB with depth images, and extracting higher-quality depth maps via raycasting the TSDF volume.

It all begins from the blog post 3 qualities of successful Ph.D. students: Perseverance, tenacity and cogency. I put it in our mailing list and here are some insightful disucssion (with authors' permission).

A California road trip with Hertz 24/7: good prices and new cars, but the management system is buggy—reservations cancel randomly, charges appear incorrectly, and you must remember to manually end your trip.

Compares C#/C++ and MATLAB for research work, arguing MATLAB is better suited for rapid prototyping while compiled languages excel at building production systems.

Career insights: presentation skills matter as much as technical work, impact beats paper count, mindfulness boosts productivity, and reuse code with unit tests to debug less.