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Nina Simone live at Casino Kursaal, 16th June 1968. Remembered this one while thinking about the Before trilogy of films.
The other day I wrote a bit about running my current game - one of the things I discussed very briefly was the introduction of controlled randomness into a storytelling space. In our hobby this is done with the simulational machinery of...
Claude helped me build a thing. There, I’ve admitted it, not that my use of LLMs has ever been a secret. But this was a big thing, a thing I could not have done on my own. I know because I tried, some years ago, and even with good help...
Sunday ‘Cats eyes removed’ Spend the next 10 minutes trying to work out a short but less weird statement they could’ve put on the road sign. ‘Retroreflective road markings removed’ just doesn’t cut it. I assume the village kids here were...
Hannah Arendt's challenge to the Stoic ideal of inner freedom, and what it means for engineers who want their code to speak for itself.
It’s been four years since I talked to you. I wonder if you would still be here if I had paused my life and put all my energy into helping you get back on your feet. Confused about my own life’s purpose, I didn’t dare to imagine a life...
Recently I watched a video talking about the literacy crisis. A whole generation of youngsters are growing up with poor literacy skills, whilst adults are increasingly outsourcing their critical thinking skills to Grand Theft...
Sometimes I follow a link over to Mastodon and see the insane way people talk on social media, or I read an article about cash drops and other trends, and I thank all the powers that I am blessedly out of touch. I may be online a lot,...
I’m very curious about how languages will evolve because of the LLMs.If people start avoiding the language’s whole sentence structures and em dashes and god knows what else just because the AI uses them, what will happen to the language?...
If you like this content consider becoming a member. It helps the content keep coming. Read what you don't agree with This is a good reminder to read things you don't agree with because the other side is not dumb and it's far too easy to...
The past few days have been filled with discussion about the Lombards, aka the Langobards, and their origin according to medieval texts. This blog has mostly dealt with them previously because of their occupation of the northern Italian...
Hey people! Today I thought I’d really like to share with you a piece by a harpist whose music I’ve only recently discovered, but whose work I find very interesting. I’ve said it several times here before that I love to hear the harp in...
You said: Get 500 random words from what ever source ChatGPT said: Sure — here are 500 random English words: apple river window velvet mountain candle thunder garden bicycle mirror ocean feather lantern forest silver pocket castle cloud...
Great coffee this morning at Johnson Public House in Madison.
at smartdeli in Berlin, Germany Filed under snapshots with tags: Berlin Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜