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by boznz 3y ago
PDF is thirty years old, and this is like the Third or fourth post on Oberon in the past few weeks so just wondering why the love? I mean as a study in programming languages its nice, but you cannot program real-world programs like you can
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by boznz 3y ago
Duhh, I'm guessing the paperback book sized terms and conditions of every phone OS and app provider has this buried somewhere in there. Even Apple would be silly not to do it internally to train its AI models. The enshittification of e
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by boznz 3y ago
Having an indexed database of facts not half-facts and half or untruths is the only way AI is ever going to be useful; and until it can fact check for itself these databases will need to be the training wheels.
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by boznz 3y ago
After Nadella saying he regretted cancelling the windows phone [1], this would seem to be double downing on stupidity. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23930478/microsoft-ceo-s...
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by boznz 3y ago
The bad guys know these and a million more exploits already so personally I'm fine with these guys exposing the industries dirty laundry especially if it shames them into doing something. There is also no defense from the company that
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by boznz 3y ago
maybe do it in another base rather than base 10. Just because we have 10 fingers does not mean a god does.
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by boznz 3y ago
Thanks for both links, anything to get away from the algorithm that keeps recommending the same military Sci-Fi to me just because I liked Old Man's War and Enders Game! The big sites should all have a big reset algorithm button IMHO.
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by boznz 3y ago
Nice concept, for me and millions of others at the mercy of the Amazon algorithm to what we read next I may try a few books here. You are right nobody cares about your novel but the rush from finishing and publishing something even if nobod
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by boznz 3y ago
So true. I'm still learning the hard part about writing is not the writing, it is getting someone to read it. I documented it here => https://rodyne.com/?page_id=1252
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by boznz 3y ago
Congratulate yourself it is a great internal achievement to finish writing something. I just published my first book this month, I'm not sure how the mojo came, it certainly wasn't a special month though I did manage 10K words dur
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by boznz 3y ago
Data is the new gold rush, big companies will mine it to train their AI systems whatever terms and conditions they pretend to adhere by and those AI's will give the big companies massive advantages. I would seriously consider using an
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by boznz 3y ago
Thanks, I have learnt a lot of lessons for my next book at least :-)
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by boznz 3y ago
I wish there was one, like most readers I was in the 70% kindle only club up until a year ago getting recommended the same military sci-fi all the time. I now try to read the comments of some of the better reviewers and see what other books
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by boznz 3y ago
Glad it was useful; I drop hints all the time to some of my more interesting friends that it is pretty easy and totally free to publish a book these days. I am sure everyone has a story in them somewhere.
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Don't give up your day job to become an author(rodyne.com)
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by boznz 3y ago
Finally finished my new book a stand-alone Sci-Fi novel about the singularity, AI and human progress to the stars. I thought I would share a few tips and gotchas to anyone who has thought about it. TLDR read the title!
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by boznz 4y ago
Obviously yes, but not sexy enough. Also, I think this list is quite a few years old as I am sure I have seen it before.
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by boznz 4y ago
So much of being an author these days is about marketing, I suspect publishers look at either your track record or your twitter followers before making decisions to sign you up or publish. Unfortunately, with so many people publishing books
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by boznz 4y ago
One of the best Sci-Fi books I have ever read was by an author who had one five-star rating from me for about four years, he went on to write another two books and left the series open without an end which was a real disappointment. I guess
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by boznz 4y ago
"enshittification", should be word of the week.
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by boznz 4y ago
Thats my definition, I spent thirty years reading and thought I could do a better job. There is a real difference though between thinking this and doing this. I finally published my first book last month, I don't care if it sells any,
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by boznz 4y ago
Are we in the singularity now ?
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by boznz 4y ago
I wonder how many other "assumptions" out there are also fucked up ?
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by boznz 4y ago
whereas dads-money-ocracy is fine.
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by boznz 4y ago
Art of Electronics is the EE Bible, has been updated a couple of times everything is googleable now though that I generally get the answer quicker that way, same as my ide, pressing F1 generally gives me the answer but google also does it a
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by boznz 4y ago
"unseen asteroid" - Wouldn't that just be the shit icing on the shit cake, though would be boom time in the space sector.
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by boznz 4y ago
Doesnt matter how utopian the first generation of martians are, the second and subsequent generations will look at the first generations as entitled and the spiral will start. Same with any system, once you have different classes, politicia
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by boznz 4y ago
no risk if nobody knows they are there, ditto if you are a crypto billionaire and dont tell anyone
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by boznz 4y ago
Remove all the crapware and you are generally back to a good battery life
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by boznz 4y ago
>For example if you surveyed people in 2006 what kind of phone they wanted, most consumers would probably ask for a better flip phone. Better flip phone would be good too.

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