💥Cover Reveal:
THE DESERT MAGICIAN’S DUOLOGY
Book 1: SHADOW SPEAKER (DAW Books, Sept 26, 2023). Drawn by Greg Ruth.
Niger, West Africa, 2074: Deep mysticism, a new type of desert, spontaneous forests, polyandry, fast cars, the power of Gerewol (google it; you won’t be disappointed!), this novel has many lives.
SHADOW SPEAKER is available for pre-order here: https://astrapublishinghouse.com/product/shadow-speaker-9780756418762/
Link contains uncensored #exploit data
I know I shouldn't be finding the #GrandmaExploit amusing in my line of work, but the fact that so many of the #News outlets are using the same graphic of a flaming-eyed evil-granny is tickling me; also it's hardly surprising that this has happened - Dr. Susan Calvin, speaking through a whole load of Asimov books, taught us so.
https://in.ign.com/tech/182742/news/ai-grandma-exploit-used-to-fool-the-system
The Sun and planets to scale.
Image credit: R. Ziche
More details: https://mymodernmet.com/sleek-3d-rendering-proportionally-compares-solar-system-s-planets/
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I've been experimenting with a new feature that tracks a number of hashtags and sites and bookmarks each new item in the top 10. I've been trying this for artificial intelligence (of course).
I've had this running for a week and I think it's interesting content. It's from major tech news sites, so it is good content itself, but the filtering through hashtags also works well.
As an experiment, I'll have fedistats post new entries to this account. Let me know what you think!
(And before you unfollow, drop me a note, I'll turn it off then! 😅)
The divergence between Danish and Norwegian has a lot of little funny subtleties. I was just reading a Danish article referring to some national crime unit called "Nationale enhed for Særlig Kriminalitet (NSK)"
The word "særlig" is rather informal in Norwegian and often has the implied meaning of "yeah, right" in English.
Therefore, that name reads to me as something like:
The National Crime Unit of You Did What Now?
Which I find both reasonable and hilarious 😆
II've been meaning to write this post for a long time: what does it mean for a neural network to be like the brain? I get into the nitty gritty of scores that compare a neural net vs. the brain. https://xcorr.net/2023/04/20/how-can-a-neural-network-be-like-the-brain/
The birds are back in town!
Again, couldn't tell ya if they're the same birds, but this morning I saw a couple of barn swallows flying to and from the nest over my door. I'm glad I didn't destroy the nest last time: it's great to see them again 😄
If you live in a state that has or is trying to de-facto ban your pride parade, it's time to go old school.
I help organize one of the world's largest *unpermitted* annual demonstration marches, and I'm happy to connect you with our coalition to learn how you can do the same.
We will NOT be silenced in OUR streets.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
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If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
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