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Cyberpunk Novels(fivebooks.com)
2 points by shervinafshar 1y ago|0 comments
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by shervinafshar 2y ago
Great. Noted. Moving on...
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by shervinafshar 2y ago
Great. Good job doing your research, but your input and cross-link were not relevant to this thread focusing on that earlier comment.
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by shervinafshar 2y ago
I'm just pointing out that my comment was about the list provided by the commenter above and "most" was about that list rather than all of PKD's work. What you refer to as "pedantic", I consider precision and t
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by shervinafshar 2y ago
> Most of the above are his titles Back to original list from the parent comment that is the "above" in my comment. X denotes PKD title, O denotes otherwise: X Time Out of Joint X The Man in the High Castle O Martian Time-Slip
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by shervinafshar 2y ago
I think my definition of "most" (11 of 14) and your definition of "most" (4 of 14) differs here...which is fine. We live in the "days of Perky Pat" anyway.
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by shervinafshar 2y ago
Most of the above are his titles. Some which were published in serialized form before being published in a single volume ( Martian Time-Slip and We Can Build You ) had different titles. Letters, manuscripts, and publication notes are help
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by shervinafshar 2y ago
Aladdin Sane persona, to be precise: https://david-bowie.fandom.com/wiki/Aladdin_Sane_(persona)
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LLM approximates an ancient philosopher's responses to five thought experiments(truesciphi.ai)
1 points by shervinafshar 2y ago|0 comments
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by shervinafshar 2y ago
Let me just say that any day in my professional and intellectual life that I interact with someone showing "innate interest" in topics at hand and a healthy amount of "refusal to give up", is a good day for me. If you&#x
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Vint Cerf – The Internet's Milestones and Millstones [video](youtube.com)
3 points by shervinafshar 2y ago|1 comments
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by shervinafshar 2y ago
Herman Goldstine Lecture, American Philosophical Society, April 2024.
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Computer History Museum 2024 Fellows(computerhistory.org)
1 points by shervinafshar 2y ago|0 comments
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by shervinafshar 2y ago
What happened to this project? Also, I wish they would have defined a schema (or vocabulary) for this metadata or re-used some existing vocabulary like FOAF. That would have helped when the main devs move on from maintaining this.
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The Well: State of the World 2024(people.well.com)
4 points by shervinafshar 3y ago|0 comments
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BookBot: Automated library storage and retrieval system(lib.ncsu.edu)
2 points by shervinafshar 3y ago|0 comments
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by shervinafshar 5y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30606263
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Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake?(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by shervinafshar 5y ago|1 comments
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by shervinafshar 5y ago
Very nice. Two points of feedback: - I was not happy that I couldn't use any of the common punctuations of English language. - job timeout on longer text inputs without a length limit existing for the input text box. I tried poetry wit
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by shervinafshar 5y ago
There is always a balance to be achieved between creating stuff oneself and mentoring others. The ideas which helped me on this have been: (a) never offer mentoring/review/training if it's forced or otherwise unsolicited; (b)
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John Gerrard, Flare (Oceania), 2021(flare.johngerrard.net)
1 points by shervinafshar 5y ago|0 comments
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by shervinafshar 5y ago
I don't really hate NFTs but I'm very critical to (a) the way models of digital scarcity is introduced to digital artist by the blockchain (maximalist) tribes effectively making the whole thing very similar to pyramid schemes as y
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What would you like to learn about Netflix engineering?(twitter.com)
2 points by shervinafshar 6y ago|0 comments
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A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter: Uncollectable Artwork (2010)(blogs.reuters.com)
1 points by shervinafshar 6y ago|0 comments
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
I wonder how dystopian sci-fi would read in such future? I mean...what would be their parable of The Matrix?
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
My guess was they are referring to one of these services that check the validity of any email address. A false signal from one of these services prevented me from signing up for some random website with a .name domain the other day.
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
*@myname.name
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Fair. Still golden if this needs to be done for all contacts of all users?
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Such an interesting context. Thanks for sharing this. I appreciate the nostalgia poetics of this today.
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by shervinafshar 6y ago
Not an expert on guerilla cyber-warfare, but isn't it the whole point of this sort of poisoning? If enough people do this the cost of those bouncing emails would become prohibitive. That's my speculation. Would be great to know mo

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