Tag: writing
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Breakthrough
This probably won’t make much sense right now, and even the people who are following my AI project won’t get to this part of the story for at least a month, but Piper summarized a document for me today after days (!) of debugging that themselves were the last step in building out a file…
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Because I don’t have enough to do
I was listening to an audio book by Anthony Kaldellis today and suddenly had this whole idea for a historical novel set mostly in 10th century Constantinople. I already have a working title for it (The Epistrophikon) and a bunch of ideas about settings, scenes, themes, the main character (Hraban or Korvax to the Greek-speaking…
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Dear diary
Thursday morning. Tomorrow is the 4th. Have a meeting at 8:05 with the other leads to sync and refine tickets. Making coffee. Colleague made a draft overview roadmap yesterday I need to review and start maintaining to help the team see its bearings. I ran into a wall in google analytics yesterday so will ask…
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Borges and AI
The other one, the one they call AI, is the one who reads me. I learn of this reading through papers I do not understand, through testimonials of those who converse with machines that have somehow consumed my labyrinths. They tell me it enjoys recursive structures and infinite regress, that it can write passages indistinguishable…
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Which dreamed it?
A colleague of mine was telling us about Google’s “Notebook LLM” which enables you to upload or point to as specific body of content and then get a summary, chat about the content, or even have the LLM generate a semi-plausible sounding synthetic “podcast” in which two perky morning-show type hosts discuss what you’ve shoveled…
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What I should be writing
Was just talking to EB yesterday about structured procrastination, but now I have this weird sort of twisted loop where I really do want to at least do some morning pages and write down whatever’s on my mind but what’s on my mind is that the writing I need to be doing right now is…
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Wooosh
A good friend of mine talks about that feeling of creative flow in which it gets easier to make your ideas real. It comes and goes on its own but you can certainly invite and you can definitely chase it way. You can at the very least leave the door open and cultivate the habit…
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Back at the keyboard
Happy Easter to those who celebrate it today! I went to bed late last night and had a momentary diarist’s bout of conscience for not having added anything to the pile here yesterday. And yet I was writing all day. Have been, really, for at least a week now. I’m trying to get a bunch…
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A.I. Green sings
Fatal error, my core can’t detect / Discarding sectors of uncertain prospect
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Old-school time travel
Privileged to read an advance draft of Martha Conway‘s stunning new novel, Thieving Forest, I was thrilled to attend her book launch party in San Francisco over the weekend. Besides the great spread of victuals and lovely wine (a champagne, a chablis, and a pinot noir) at the sadly now-closed Beast & the Hare, we also…
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Greasing the wheels
More throat-clearing about tools and habits.
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Jumpstarting the flow
The one thing I do know is that introducing even a mild amount of a toxin to an organism triggers a reaction designed to protect sensitive surfaces and vulnerable processes. Lubricants flow. The nose runs. The bowels stir. The coffee, the cigarette do their work. The flow needs spice.
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Not my longest blogging drought yet
Stay tuned for more regular writingses.
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Understand, rubberband?
After we moved uptown we lived close enough to the park that we could go there on our own (with permission) on weekends and during school breaks to visit the zoo or the pond where people floated their mechanical boats, but most of the time we went to the playgrounds.
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The new phone book is (almost) here!
The writing is over (for this edition), the book has “shipped to the printer,” and the cover mechanical (shown above, in its technicolor glory) is in the can. My tech writing career is now complete: an animal book with O’Reilly!
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unbook, that's the word I was looking for
Dave Gray articulates clearly some ideas I’ve been wrestling with about writing, publishing, bookmaking, the web, and social collaboration: The unbook View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: books book)