PinnedDiscussing DARPA’s TRACTOR: On Translating Legacy C Code To RUST Using LLMsDARPA wants to fund TRACTOR with 14 millions USD to translate legacy C and C++ to Rust using LLMs, as memory issues account for 70% of bugs…Aug 25, 2024Aug 25, 2024
PinnedGPU PASSTHROUGH: How Computer Graphics & Virtualization Herald FuturismComputer graphics, which involves the creation of visual content through algorithms and computer hardware, is an ever-evolving field…Dec 14, 2024Dec 14, 2024
TOME-E in Anime: Where Style Meets RhythmTome-e (止め絵) — also called “postcard memory” or “pastel chalk freeze frame” or “harmony cel” — is a technique found in Japanese animation…Sep 12, 2024A response icon1Sep 12, 2024A response icon1
FROM DAICON III TO STEINS;GATE — On the Intertwined Nature of Otaku Culture and Science-FictionThe overlap between the science-fiction and otaku cultures runs deeply. Just to name a symbolic institution in the realm of Japanese…Jun 13, 2024Jun 13, 2024
How do Crisis Rhetorics & Adaptive Ethos interact in Japanese Animation?Recently, the airing of the new Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf (2024) anime has seen mixed reactions comparing the Imagin…May 12, 2024May 12, 2024
Understanding Transmisogyny In Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture: An Anime Comparative Analysis…(This article is a transcript of a panel I exposed on April 16th, 2024 for a symposium titled Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese…Apr 16, 2024Apr 16, 2024
The Anime Trap: Femboy, Pederasty, Transfeminine Positionality under Patriarchal CapitalismAnime as an artform with a place in the mainstream media landscape stands to be glanced at with scrutiny, as somewhere narratives and their…Apr 4, 2024Apr 4, 2024
How Important is Perspective in Anime?Perspective is an ubiquitous element of Japanese animation, fully participating to both its immersion and realism, as well as a fabric of…Feb 12, 2024Feb 12, 2024
New Year’s Eve — Retrospection over Achievements; Goals for the FutureI first wish you a happy New Year’s Eve, and hope your festivities this December have been wonderful. If you experienced loneliness, or…Dec 31, 2023Dec 31, 2023
YURI, MOE AND THE (FE)MALE GAZE IN ANIME: What Japanese Lesbian Media Can Teach Us On Gender From…In the anime community, critical discourse related to the male gaze tend to gravitate around two terms. Fan service: a gratuitous gender…Dec 10, 2023Dec 10, 2023