{"id":5508,"date":"2021-05-19T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T16:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2021-05-19T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:55:10","slug":"free-intro-to-rt-and-ml-nn-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/free-intro-to-rt-and-ml-nn-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Intro to RT and ML & NN Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two free webinar courses<\/a> from SIGGRAPH 2021, run by Rajesh Sharma<\/a> at Disney Animation, starting next week:<\/p>\n

Introduction to Ray Tracing<\/strong>\u00a0starts Tuesday, May 25th, running for seven sessions. It’s based on Pete Shirley’s Ray Tracing in One Weekend<\/em><\/a> book (which is also free). Each class starts with a live conversation with a ray tracing luminary (or me). See here<\/a> for the full description, syllabus, and YouTube links. You don’t need to register – just show up. But, when? Here’s a Google calendar<\/a>\u00a0for integrating into your own, and here’s a link for the ICS file<\/a> for Outlook, etc. Course materials and prerequisites are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Machine Learning and Neural Networks<\/strong> starts Monday, May 24th, also seven sessions. Similar thing: see here<\/a> for the description, syllabus, and YouTube links. Registration not required. Here’s the Google Calendar<\/a> link and here’s the ICS<\/a> link. Course materials and prerequisites (not many!) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Me, I hope to at least watch the first 10 minutes of every session to get a glimpse of what the experts are thinking about.<\/p>\n

From Rajesh’s Linked-In posting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Two free webinar courses from SIGGRAPH 2021, run by Rajesh Sharma at Disney Animation, starting next week: Introduction to Ray Tracing\u00a0starts Tuesday, May 25th, running for seven sessions. It’s based on Pete Shirley’s Ray Tracing in One Weekend book (which is also free). Each class starts with a live conversation with a ray tracing luminary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5514,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions\/5514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}