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New comment by vladar107 in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

vladar107 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:43:38 +0000

270 years sitting in a museum and ML cracks it in a few years. Makes you wonder how many other 'unreadable' artifacts are just waiting for the right model."

New comment by vladar107 in "Why AI in the classroom is a catastrophe – Sophie Winkleman [ARC 2026] [video]"

vladar107 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:41:14 +0000

There's a real difference between a tool that helps you think and one that thinks for you. Not sure most schools are drawing that line carefully.

New comment by vladar107 in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

vladar107 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:36:39 +0000

There's already a city in Finland getting free heating from a Microsoft data center. The problem isn't technical. It's that data centers and district heating grids rarely end up next to each other by accident.

New comment by vladar107 in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

vladar107 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:24:20 +0000

What's the biggest bottleneck you hit - GPU compute, memory bandwidth, or network latency for asset streaming? Curious how it compares to native WebGPU.