Not a single paper but Eric Veach's Ph.D. thesis 'Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation' - http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/veach_thesis/
Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
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#112"Interactive Indirect Illumination Using Voxel Cone Tracing" by Crassin et al. As an architectural lighting guy, seeing realtime global illumination look this good in a game engine was fantastic. Parts of the algorithm I can understand, parts go over my head still, but the results are amazing. A big part of what I do at work is radiosity simulations in AGI32 which is of course more accurate (because it's trying to ac…
That link doesn't work for me, even though the same link is presented in a Google search. Also, for some reason I can't find it via search by DOI. http://research.nvidia.com/publication/interactive-indirect-... has the paper plus presentation available, plus abstract and other links.
Thanks! I've replaced it with your working nvidia link.
I got the citeseerx.ist.psu.edu link off google and it worked for me the first time. I'm an alum but not logged into anything, so either it was a bypass via google referrer (not sure why they'd do that, it's not looking for advertising clicks) or some usage limit.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
#113Worth mentioning Joe Armstrong's "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of sodware errors" [1].
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#114Worth mentioning Joe Armstrong's "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of sodware errors" [1]. [1] http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
I was hoping your title wasn't a typo
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
#115Mine is "Image Quilting for Texture Synthesis and Transfer" by Efros and Freeman. It's simple enough to implement as a personal project and has some nice visual output. Plus, Wang tiles are cool and it's fun to learn more about them. https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/vision/p...
On the same subject, I prefer the concurrently published "Image Analogies" paper ( http://www.mrl.nyu.edu/projects/image-analogies/ ) because their described technique, while slow, just makes so much sense.
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#116Paxos made simple. It's a very beautiful paper.
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#117The Night Watch by James Mickens is always a good read: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
That's a good one, but I think "This World of Ours", Mickens' treatise on the practical realities of operational security (specifically keying material handling), should take the top spot:
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#119Automated Distributed Execution of LLVM code using SQL JIT Compilation As collected by the SIGBOVIK group: http://sigbovik.org/2017/proceedings.pdf Quote: "Following the popularity of MapReduce, a whole ecosystem of Apache Incubator Projects has emerged that all solve the same problem. Famous examples include Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Pikachu, Apache Pig, German Spark and Apache Hive [1]. However, these hav…
Apache Pikachu got me
The alliteration is real
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#120An Algorithm for the Machine Calculation of Complex Fourier Series
James W. Cooley and John W. Tukey
Mathematics of Computation Vol. 19, No. 90 (Apr., 1965), pp. 297-301