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Writing a Novel in 24-Hours: My One-Day NaNoWriMo Experiment(blogbyemail.com)
5 points by amayne 7y ago|6 comments
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by amayne 7y ago
"Tubeless Hyperloop" You mean a traditional maglev train? "The incorporation of helium reservoirs within the capsule reduces the effective weight by about 10%, reducing the energy necessary for its propulsion." This does
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by amayne 7y ago
Interesting. I turned off HDR on my AppleTV last week specifically because The Mandalorian appeared too dim. I had no idea this was the reason why. Now it makes sense.
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by amayne 7y ago
> SpaceX will probably end up shutting down due to lack of lift demand... The launch business is tiny compared to what's possible when you can do large volume industrial research and manufacturing in microgravity. I take the approac
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by amayne 7y ago
“The basis for this argument is that big government has two major problems.” UBI skeptics would suggest that there’s a much bigger third problem – and that’s the inherit tendency of government programs to grow beyond their intended purpose.
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by amayne 7y ago
Assuming a long enough timeline, I can’t see why they wouldn’t. But that’s just a subjective guess on my part. I think AI content creation will affect everything. Publishing will only be tiny part of that...but a significant part if that’s
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by amayne 7y ago
Nobody knows anything. Harry Potter got rejected by over 40 publishers. I started as a self-published author and sold hundreds of thousands of books plus made my first movie deal before ever getting a publisher. I was actually better early-
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by amayne 7y ago
Whatever is convenient for you. I'm just happy to have readers. The most beneficial thing it is to leave a review if you like it and tell people what you enjoyed.
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by amayne 7y ago
> Can't disagree with this enough. I'm not sure if you're actually disagreeing with me. My point is once some future neural network starts to grasp continuity and context (something GPT-2 does not do) I think writing won
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by amayne 7y ago
I worked circuses and cruise ships as a teenager. That’s an old joke. Well used, but old. “What do you call a cheap wig?”
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by amayne 7y ago
My username gives me away. My most recent series is The Naturalist. It's about a computational biologist that hunts serial killers. Even though the book goes into Bayesian statistics, Fourier analysis and has the occasional bit of Pyth
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by amayne 7y ago
I’m an Edgar Finalist, Wall Street Journal best-selling author, blah, blah, and I can confidently say that...I’m doomed. GPT-2 is amazing without even grasping deeper context. Once NN’s start to grasp arc and continuity (which is understand
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by amayne 7y ago
This has been used in magic for years and was introduced by Lubbor Fiedler as “Lubor’s Lens.” (I have a few by my desk. I contemplated making a large one as part of a television special I recently shot.)
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by amayne 7y ago
Or cellular phones, computers, refrigeration, microwaves, electricity, AC and a thousand other things that only rich people used to be able to afford. Just about any luxury of the rich that can be produced more efficiently over time makes i
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by amayne 7y ago
>The masses don't own houses to put these roofs on. 64% of Americans own the home they live in. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United...
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by amayne 7y ago
I once got to have dinner with Penn and Rob Pike years ago. I had no idea at the time who Pike was. Looked him up afterwards (this was pre-Wikipedia) and felt like an idiot.
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by amayne 7y ago
I think the idea of spending one-on-one time at random is wonderful. It helps you break unconscious patterns and get to know people you otherwise might miss out on learning more about.
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by amayne 7y ago
There used to be newsletter called SWIFT where Randi would write-up various attempts. I left the organization over a decade ago and have no idea what happened to those articles since then. The current website only goes back five years. Yike
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by amayne 7y ago
> Uh... the headline of the article was literally "Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand". Which part of that statement isn't true? You read that headline one way. Myself another. When someone actually reads the article (
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by amayne 7y ago
How is OpenAI misleading? The entire post on OpenAI is about the physics of the problem (different sized cubes, materials, etc.) When I saw the press release I understood the demonstration was about hand dexterity and not trying to use AI t
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by amayne 7y ago
Disney created Touchstone for this purpose in the 1980s. Disney bought Miramax in the 1990s and as far as I know, they never used Miramax to release a Disney Studios-originated property. I could be wrong.
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by amayne 7y ago
Very cool. Addictive.
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by amayne 7y ago
My high school had a fairly large deaf program. I took Latin with a majority of the students being deaf/hearing impaired. Best part was watching the translator relay my smart-ass jokes to the other students. I’d say something and a hal
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by amayne 7y ago
It’s worth paying attention to the deaf community’s thoughts on any tech that comes along, gloves etc., for translating sign language. Short version, ASL is more than hand gestures and past efforts at solving this tend to focus more on assi
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by amayne 7y ago
The biggest problem in online commerce is fraud. Shopify, Ebay, etc., while all having some kind of "buyer beware" policy, invest a considerable amount in fraud prevention. Shopify gives me a purchaser trustworthiness score, Ebay
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by amayne 7y ago
LeapMotion, the last I looked, was two stereo cameras and three IR emitters, plus their own special software algorithms. I don't think this makes the problem simpler if the problem you're trying to solve is a low-cost, extremely
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by amayne 7y ago
Meetup is owned by WeWork. So it’s even more problematic than that.
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by amayne 7y ago
Could the argument be made that the drop also correlates with the advent of smartphones like the iPhone and Android? The most expensive components in these were microprocessors – which outside embedded systems were never Japan’s strong poin
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by amayne 7y ago
Especially when the stock price the premise of the argument is based-upon has gone down (meaning Bezos made negative money). It makes you wonder if the people making these points actually understand economics...
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by amayne 7y ago
Moral and ethical argument aside. The numbers are extremely wrong here. This is based upon the claim that Jeff Bezos makes on average $78 billion a year. He doesn't. That was the jump in the Amazon stock price two years ago. It's

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