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Soronlin@soronlin.bsky.social |
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Writer, technical proof-reader, software engineer
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Soronlin
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It's very Corbyn though. He never voted for a Labour whip that he disagreed with. There are those who would condemn that. I think it's a mark of integrity. Meanwhile if I write to Liz Kendell, my MP, about anything, the only time I even get a reply is when it is in line with Labour plans.
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The BBC never counted North Herefordshire in the graphics, let alone mentioned it. I don't think it even came up as a breaking result. When Brighton Pavilion declared, the BBC was still reporting 3 Green seats.
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I don't know, but I know who to ask: lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfil...
Judging by the titles of more recent papers, I don't think they've got as far as accents yet.
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I sympathise about editing VO. I did a run of Fallout4 on YouTube where I wanted the female character to have been the soldier and I decided to edit the bitter/sweet holotape where she hears her dead husband and missing son. Just a few words needed changing.
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I wrote this the other day. It breaks every rule in the book (or at least a couple) but you can pry it out of my cold dead fingers. Mia's daughter is telepathic and she's helping her similarly gifted friend who has MH issues. Mia is downstairs worrying.
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I've never driven through Glasgow without getting lost, and that's on motorways and trunk roads. I remember my father doing it towing a caravan and the bit where we joined the motorway in the fast lane and had to leave it from the slow lane two miles later was always "fun".
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There is a story that prawn cocktail flavour was originally baked bean flavour. People liked them but wouldn't have bought them.
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Way back in the early 1980s MS-DOS didn't have file folders. I came across my first Unix-like computer. The manual said "a hierarchical file system is a good way to store information. It is also a good way to lose information."
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Certainly don't do as our DM did once and name a tribe Thefuck with NPCs having names such at What and Who. Because then they are What the thefuck and Who the thefuck and it doesn't work at all.
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It's fairly easy to make your own. Then you'd have an endless supply. That would be good, right? As a bonus, with no preservatives, it does tend to only last a few weeks... if it gets the chance.
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I doubt we could have an elected head of state without power. The point of a modern monarchy is that it puts all the glamour* in a role that can't do much damage and that power-seekers can't sneak their way into. * Interesting term. I bet we could both do something with that.
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... which some brief memory of a happier existence, long gone by, would seem to have awakened; which no voluntary exertion of the mind can ever recall."
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"Thus, a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower, or the mention of a familiar word, will sometimes call up sudden dim remembrances of scenes that never were, in this life; which vanish like a breath; ...
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I don't write horror but I find Charles Dickens is a good source or weird verbiage with an Easter egg of added context. eg "The rippling of water in a silent place" from Oliver Twist.
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It's figurative not literal, right?
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H2 is difficult to store. It's a smaller molecule than He, and you know how fast He balloons deflate. Plus it can't be liquefied. Overnight, however, could be manageable.
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Jenny Rae Rappaport
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This is ridiculous. This press is asking for "first right of refusal for adaptation rights (film, graphic novels, etc.) of the work for a period of 3 years from the signing date."
THREE YEARS.
Run, don't submit, don't sign this. Such a bad thing for writers.
www.emberletterpress.com/submissions
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Soronlin
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There's an alternative. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansper...
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Soronlin
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And those "Earth-type" planets in other solar-systems? They don't use DNA or our proteins because those are a result of Earth evolution. We couldn't eat their plants or animals and neither could our plants and animals. All the soil in the world would be less useful than sterile sand.
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...because the corpus is orders of magnitude smaller. The difference is that those are more likely to be part of the solution toward true AI and the LLMs are innately flawed and a dead-end.
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LLMs and the like are the scam. Those are the ones that need training on a vast corpus so large it requires equally vast copyright infringement. Deep-learning is driving our cars and focusing our phone cameras more successfully and more legally, but there it doesn't need so much compute power.
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People decide to lie or they misunderstand the truth. LLMs don't even know the concept of lying. They are like the worst ever politician, saying whatever is popular without reference to its truth. They have no capability to determine the truth and no drive to develop one.
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The human brain lies on purpose. If it lies then it is for a rational purpose. An LLM doesn't know what is truth and what is a lie. That is a fundamental property of its design. An intelligence that can not differentiate between fact and fantasy is not useful.
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It's only an issue because of LLMs, which are a dead end anyway. There's limited use for a technology that has lying baked into the fundamental concept. The human brain manages it in under 100W; there will be a solution but it isn't a LLM.
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Added to which. If the milk is in a cardboard pack, the only way to know how much is left is to weigh it. It would be near impossible to tell the difference between cheese, butter, marzipan and pastry. 3/3
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We have no control over how deep learning comes to its conclusion. It's good for image recognition if you are careful but once you get to more general tasks it's near useless or at least dangerous to rely on. 2/
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You take a series of images and train it to recognise what the fridge looks like when a new package of milk is about to be added. However, due to your lifestyle, it learns that you need more milk when the cheese has gone mouldy. 1/
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At this point, apart from the advance, I have earned more from library loans and photocopies than I have earned in royalties. So please, go borrow my book.
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There is actually no velocity that is not orbital velocity if you ignore atmosphere and the surface of the planet. A slow walk will result in a tight loop around the center and back out to where you started.
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Nick Kodama
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Checking google scholar for recent articles with the phrase "certainly, here is a":
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Soronlin
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What you're missing is just how much graft bankruptcy lawyers can do. It is possible that there will be less than $55M to distribute once the dust clears.
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I'm on tenter hooks. I've got the first email but not the second. I'm with you on the nothing from Ireland bench.
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David Gerrold once said that all fiction is bullshit by definition but a good author spreads bullshit to grow human beings.
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❤️🖤 tiffani 🤍💚
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Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried Over and Over Again. It Works Every Time.
gizmodo.com/universal-ba...
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That series is part of Operation Mindfuck in itself. If you enjoy those, carry on and read the Schrodinger's Cat books. Whatever you do, always look for the fnords.
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I don't have funds for a full edit, and it's not the right time, but a professional, detailed beta-read might be useful. Would that be something you would be interested in?
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As an unrepentant and joyful pedant, I feel this keenly. Also there and their. I even found myself spelling waist as waste recently, although I caught it immediately. Making the ignorant, bone-headed mistakes myself feels like a betrayal of my deepest being.
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A while back there was a TTRPG called Nephilim, which modeled spiritual enlightenment as being possessed by an ancient immortal. It never felt right to me, after all, you are still the same person after enlightenment. Maybe you see the world from a changed point of view, but it's still you.
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As someone who has only ever driven straight through Glasgow, my take would be, "you'll get lost."
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A Chinese takeaway of [redacted] and damp
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Space Cat Press
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This morning’s BARK & BONE shoutout is for returning #SpaceCatStar Richard Urwin.
Richard is a semi-retired embedded software engineer who had a story in our UNCHARTED CONSTELLATIONS anthology 🌌 👨💻
#ForestOfBarkAndBone
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Only the left wing needs to have both "faction" and "fraction" to describe groupings.
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Randall Munroe
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Under the Stars xkcd.com/2849
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I've made a throne of wet sand. Be very careful how you sit down. Around the third time it's going to collapse.
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Damion Schubert
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In 2012, AbleGamers gave SWTOR an award for our accessibility. I was sent to accept the reward, and just now I found the notes from my acceptance. It... felt important, so I thought I'd repurpose the high points into a thread. Please join me for a bit. (thread)
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Achronal Art
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US people can see a movie crowd scene WITH THEIR OWN EYES & if 1 person in 6 is female, believe that men & women have balanced numbers.
If men drop below 5 out of every 6 - a FULL 83% of the crowd - they believe that women in it OUTNUMBER men.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
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Soronlin
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You're looking a bit more time-worn these days but you could probably still manage it.
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