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zulban··on Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
Why do they need to be sustainable as a business..? The best museums are a service that the public funds (or not). Side note: the museums in America generally suck and are just capitalist activity centers for kids, in my experience. You can't manufacture a good museum's exhibits. I don't think many Americans even know what a museum is, based on their reviews of some I've been to.

Museums are worthwhile to fund instead of throwing them to the wolves of the private sector.

zulban··on Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
"I'm right until you get me a conversation with Terence Tao".

Sorry, a random stranger on the internet is not going to spoonfeed you. You need to do the work to enlighten yourself.

You don't need a lawyer "well versed in metamath". You're being elitist and dismissing perfectly competent experts who know more than enough to demolish your ideas.

zulban··on Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
Your low res rushed phone scans are already available.
zulban··on Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
I don't get upset. I just know that you have no idea what you're talking about. Talk to some tech native, smart, practicing lawyers for an hour about this.
zulban··on Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
Low res scans are already generally available for lots of these. This case is about high res scans that phones cannot do.
zulban··on Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
Low resolution scans like yours are already available, generally. This case is about the high res ones.
zulban··on Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
This case has been going on for years and I read a lot about it awhile ago. The write ups are so extensive I'd be surprised if they didn't, somewhere, write paragraphs about the documents you mentioned.
zulban··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
You've missed the point so I'll try to spell it out.

Bike sheds are important. Their color is not.

Event promotion is important. The color of the poster is not.

zulban··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
My advice: stop your fomo. Just get useful work done.
zulban··on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
Not sure what point you're trying to make. Do you think politely asking an ad company to disable ads on their browser is a reasonable thing to spend your effort doing?
zulban··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Making a good poster is bikeshedding. Organizing an event is hard and making better posters than this is a waste of their limited resources.
zulban··on PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD
I have a master's in education technology.

There's no "simply put" here. Your position is not obvious, established, or universal and this is not simple.

zulban··on PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD
Sloppy conclusion about edtech startups.

If everyone is hiring a "tutor" to just do their homework for them, that doesn't mean that all tutors are bad.

zulban··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
No. But almost always, the car company is fine.
zulban··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Brilliant. AI message board honey pot.
zulban··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Indeed. It's another example of a law that sounds good and obvious, but has no thought put into what it would actually end up doing to the world.

So many other problems. If we apply this law to cruise control - simple outcome. We get no cruise control.

zulban··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
There's problems with every system, but as a Canadian, it doesn't sound like you know anything about our health care.
zulban··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
> See translator jobs getting wiped out. Nobody even blinked an eye, it didn't spark any discussion, no deep thoughts were had.

Whenever someone writes something like this "nobody talks about it, nobody cared" I always think that just tells you more about the media sources and community of the author (you) than anything else.

Of course people talked about it. They are still talking about it. Of course they cared. They still care. Don't be ridiculous. Go talk to some human translators in real life.

"Nobody is talking about AI". Sounds even more ridiculous when written like that.

zulban··on AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
It has points because people agree with it.
zulban··on AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
I'm far above that floor so I'm not worried.

What worries me is the job is transforming into something that a different type of person than me enjoys.

zulban··on AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
People are spending billions of dollars a month in aggregate because yes, they do like it.
zulban··on AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
It's hard to take criticism like this seriously when you didn't say the model you used. It's like someone complaining about a car's performance but they leave out the brand and year. If you don't think that's relevant I just can't take you seriously.
zulban··on The Unity CLI: manage Unity from your terminal
Great. For my game [1] I have long had the capacity to compile a separate commandline application using unity code [2]. This lets me do benchmarks and unit tests on the core chess AI code without the editor. However I've had to maintain a separate second unit test suite that I can only run in the editor manually if any unity specific code is involved. Naturally, it's run far less often.

This new unity cli doesn't replace that design, since it's important to me that my core chess variant AI code remains a project on its own, totally independent of unity. But it does mean lots of my utilities like my second unity test, which normally require clicking a button in the editor, can now be run without the editor. Excellent!

Making a 2d chess variant game means almost all unity editor features just get in my way.

[1] https://www.chesscraft.ca

[2] https://youtu.be/U4xBLTpZ9Xo?si=Gd2aAWKvLqBVBU66

zulban··on Advertise in ChatGPT
"just show me stuff that reflects what I value."

Ads don't show you what you value. They show you what companies think you will waste your money on. You need to wake up, my friend.

zulban··on How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks
Indeed. We'd likely find a similar pattern if we count spelling mistakes before and after autocorrect.
zulban··on Airbus Takes Flight from AWS
What's wrong with DO? Been happily using them for over a decade.
zulban··on Grok 4.5
It surely would be here and a million other places online. And there'd be nobody talking about the ice cream. Just Trump.
zulban··on Grok 4.5
I couldn't help but note that your comment and mine could have been written by people who know absolutely nothing about the tech of this post. Interesting.
zulban··on Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
The criticisms here remind me of a quotation that I'll paraphrase: "in silicon valley there's a million apps to order a coffee, but not one to teach you to read".

People seem to have the basic premise: why not just get an educated adult, or good teacher, or personal human tutor for the kids which is so much better?

Well there's a billion parents who cannot ever afford that...

So I'd just like to note that HN is absolutely 100% not the kind of community that you need to impress or sell to. Best of luck.

zulban··on Grok 4.5
> Telling people not to be political is a political act

No. If there's a group to discuss ice cream, but they keep talking about Trump, it's not a "political act" to say "hey guys, aren't we here for ice cream?"

Otherwise every forum devolves into the loudest, most vocal slurry and loses its personality.

I'm Canadian. Let's talk about the tech, not your failing country, please. Or I'll go somewhere else for ice cream, and yall can have your millionth community to talk about the same self obsessed political topics ad nauseum.

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