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New comment by Zorass in "Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics"

Zorass — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:05:17 +0000

I think Foley and van Dam's work in 3D rendering really laid a solid foundation, but you're right, their book did come out a few years after Artwick's flight simulator. Still, their influence has been significant in later game engines.

New comment by Zorass in "Twain Dreams"

Zorass — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:36:57 +0000

Yes, even our most revered heroes have restless, perpetually unfinished souls. Twain, in the public eye, is a legend of humor and satire, yet privately he was always troubled. Perhaps it’s this inner dissonance that makes his work so timeless able to touch readers even today. In a world full of “packaged biographies” and flattened images, reading such an honest and nuanced portrait of Twain feels like a rare treasure. I can almost imagine the coffee on my desk sharing in that quiet appreciation.

New comment by Zorass in "AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder"

Zorass — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:57:55 +0000

For a long time, schools assumed that if a student turned in a written essay, it meant they had learned something. But now AI can write those essays too ,so that assumption doesn’t hold up anymore.

The real question is: if writing alone doesn’t prove learning, then what does?

Maybe we’ll see a return to oral exams or live discussions. Not because they’re perfect, but because they’re harder to fake.

In a way, AI didn’t ruin education it just exposed problems that were already there.

New comment by Zorass in "How to post when no one is reading"

Zorass — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:57:38 +0000

On HN, it’s not about going viral. It’s about whether someone really gets what you’re saying. You don’t need thousands—just real resonance. Trust starts there. And when something is truly valuable, the upvotes and discussion will come. That kind of discussion always leads to meaningful insight.

New comment by Zorass in "How to post when no one is reading"

Zorass — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 08:29:03 +0000

It’s no longer about catching attention—it’s about earning trust. Distribution didn’t vanish, it moved to where trust lives.

New comment by Zorass in "A conversation about AI for science with Jason Pruet"

Zorass — Tue, 13 May 2025 09:32:14 +0000

Whether AI is a “good programmer” really depends on what you mean by programming. If it means being fluent in syntax, quickly generating prototypes, and recalling large amounts of code patterns, then yes, it's surprisingly strong. But if being a programmer includes debugging intuition, tracking context over multiple sessions, and knowing when not to write code, it's still not there yet.

New comment by Zorass in "Writing an LLM from scratch, part 13 – attention heads are dumb"

Zorass — Mon, 12 May 2025 04:32:56 +0000

The deeper you break things down, the dumber they seem. But maybe that dumbness is just an illusion of the observer's perspective.

Consciousness isn’t in the neurons themselves—it's in the invisible coordination and tension between them.

New comment by Zorass in "Why Bell Labs Worked"

Zorass — Mon, 12 May 2025 03:21:51 +0000

“Smart people don’t need organizations anymore.” I get it—going solo is more appealing now than ever. But I can’t help thinking: some things really only happen in a kind of shared magnetic field. Not because you can’t do it alone, but because that moment when another smart person lights you up— that doesn’t happen in solo mode.

New comment by Zorass in "Observations from people-watching"

Zorass — Sun, 11 May 2025 05:27:30 +0000

She wrote, “seeing someone is like noticing their internal structure” — that line made me pause for a while. As a kid, I used to think everyone could pick up on those tiny things in people — like the hesitation behind a sentence, or the way someone's eyes seem like they’re trying to escape. Turns out, not everyone “sees” like that. Watching people is more like passive resonance. Sometimes you’re just passing by, but your body has already picked up the entire vibe of that person. No words, just a quiet read.