As many on the Internet are aware, I ordinarily do not have that level of email responsiveness, but when I accidentally am on phone in late evening when the email rolls in I like to be able to pretend that I’m still a salaryman.
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Staff Engineers Struggle Finding Time for Technical Hobbies
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Partly I think it is a reflection of the advertising business model, and partly it is that this particular hobby skews in a quirky way, with a lot of e.g. staff engineers aspirationally wanting to do it but never having had the time to get good, because they were too busy at job.
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YouTube Art Teaching Economy: Mid-List Creator Income Trends
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This is similar in character to the economy for miniature painting advice. Without knowing exact numbers, I’d assume some of the best paid art teaching jobs anywhere are mid-list YouTubers.
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AI Painting Sculpts: Multiple Iterations Challenge
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Took a few tries but couldn’t get it to paint the sculpt exactly, though got variations on the theme posed in a fashion similar to the sculpt.
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STL Model Development: Inevitability of Commercialization
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I think at least one person is working on an STL model but suspect it will be a while before anyone gets to commercializable results. (Thought of doing it myself; seems like not the thing to spend years of life on.) In principle it’s ~inevitable it happens.
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AI Image Generation for 3D Sculpture Marketing: Ethical Trade-offs
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If you’re one of the many sculptors who sell these things to people like me for a living, should you put all of your 3D renders through Image Generation to produce a painted reference, accepting some slight hallucination for the cheap marketing win?
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Chat suggests painting techniques for black dragon miniature
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Asked it what I could do paint wise given intermediate skill level to make it read as a black dragon. I do not know that this is intermediate skill level, Chat, but do sincerely appreciate the painting reference.
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GPT Engages in Polite Debate Over Dragon Color
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The GPT got into a polite argument with me on whether it was a black or green dragon, resulting in the following delightfully inhuman dialogue.
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GPT Generates Fantasy Dragon Art from Miniature Description
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It is just ridiculous that this works. (The model is very unfinished, but I thought a visualization might help, and GPT delivered.) Prompt was “Here’s a WIP miniature. Depict this dragon in an appropriate D&D setting, using classic fantasy art style.”
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Startup Visa Adoption Lags Behind Points-Based Immigration Policy
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Many people who would qualify would also qualify for points-based immigration, which is slightly preferable. I hear adoption of the startup visa is less than expected. As always, I have vanishingly little to say publicly about immigration policy, but have an open inbox.