Walmart new grad turns solo RTX 3090 Ti side project into SIGGRAPH 2026 paper
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-11
Independent researcher xandurglar shares how a side project started solo on one RTX 3090 Ti two years ago became InfiniteDiffusion, an independent-author paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2026. He's a new-grad SWE at Walmart with no funding, advisors, or team. Two contributions: InfiniteDiffusion, a new approach to infinite generation with diffusion models, and Terrain Diffusion, the first learned procedural terrain generator. He also wrote a detailed thread on self-teaching ML, doing research, writing, navigating peer review, and advice for similar paths.
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