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Any chance of an audiobook coming soon?

This SRI document is based on research funded by a ARPA grant:

"This work was supported in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency under Contract F19628-92-C-0071."

Which implies that it was in development long before the date on the PDF.

Earth mapping was a very hot field in the 1980s with most of it being funded by intelligence agencies and classified.

Here is SRI’s project from 1994 that showed similar capabilities (and the same name) and was one of the reasons the court decided against the claimants in their lawsuit against Google:

https://www.sri.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/778.pdf

This is SRI’s (formerly Stanford Research Institute) project with the same name also from 1994 that showed similar capabilities and was one of the reasons the court decided against the claimants in their lawsuit against Google.

https://www.sri.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/778.pdf

This is great. Your notebook notes are very helpful.

This is very cool! I’ve been playing with timefhuman and recurrant plus GPT-3 for really tricky user input.

> I wonder if this is what people in the 17th century felt, a bit of melancholy at the dream that hundreds of years from now someone may be able to walk on the then newly-discovered moon, and knowing they would not be around to see it happen.

Could you elaborate on this newly-discovered moon you’re speaking of?

"Wuhan is ~1000km away from SARS spillover zones. Its human population was even used as a negative (no SARS) control group."

Via @Ayjchan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1394327680456220672?s=20

I suggest applying again. Approvals are happening at a faster rate.

I’m a novelist (Wall Street Journal best seller, Edgar and Thriller Award finalist, etc.)

I also work with OpenAI in helping developers find creative applications for the GPT-3 (I helped write a number of the prompts for using GPT-3 you see in the documentation.)

While GPT-3 is one just one step and limited by the token size as to what it can grok, I’m convinced the deep learning approach will eventually lead to technology that will surpass the human ability to tell stories.

Will AI-generated stories have true depth? I don’t know. Will you be able to tell the difference between a human and an AI story without any other context? I doubt it.

Instead of seeing AI as a threat to me as a writer, I see it as an opportunity to tell bigger, more interactive stories in ways we can’t imagine. It would be a creativity amplifier.

My favorite takeaway was how Square focused on businesses the credit card companies thought were too small bother with. McKelvey realized there were a lot more of them than the credit card companies realized and they added up to a sizable customer base.

Walt Umenhofer, the military veteran mentioned, was a friend of my father’s. Walt also owned a drivable tank. No joke.

This reminds me of how I go through a lot of trouble to pick a seat in a movie theater, but after it’s over and if I really enjoyed it, I couldn’t tell you if I sat in the front or off to the side.

Good storytelling just pulls you in. Our brain fills in the rest.

Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, etc., almost exclusively wrote in the past tense. Did you mean a past tense framing device instead?

It's very common in YA, but was extremely rare a decade ago.

I picked up the style after seeing Suzanne Collins use it so wonderfully in the Hunger Games.

Now I write this way almost exclusively for all my books.

Climate. We know from ice cores that the climate prior to the current interglacial period wasn’t very conducive to crops. It was dryer and had less CO2. 180ppm be 260ppm pre-industrial area.

Lower CO2 levels meant that plants lost more moisture opening their pores and growth would be stunted.

For fun I put this into OpenAI's new API:

Alice: Bob, Can you translate "Eat my shorts" into latin for me?

This is what it replied without any training:

Bob: As it happens, yes, I can.

Alice: Great.

Bob: Ego sum vestrum braccas comedisse shortus.

Alice: Exactly what I was looking for.

Google translate says "Ego sum vestrum braccas comedisse shortus" means " I have eaten your pants shorts."

They’ve sold way more units than that. At least 400,000 units as of October 2019 according to this:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/gamedaily.biz/article/1337/repo...

Newton existed well before Ive joined Apple. Larry Tesler (who just passed away) was the driving force behind it. Jony Ive was brought in later to help design the smaller form factor.

Alt title: Distance learning is a skill we need to help educators and students develop.

This. There is insufficient details for the level of outrage people are displaying.

Those are valid factors, but with businesses like banking and health, I wouldn’t want to be an outlier with the programming language.

Honest question: Why do you think they should switch to Go? If Java is what they’re comfortable with and it’s still used widely in the industry, is the trade-off worth it?

I think the more likely scenario is that they’re filled with typos to avoid spam detection filters for keywords and phrases. The gullibility theory doesn’t explain the advantage of using similarly appearing letters (the number one for the lowercase L), etc., which spam uses all the time.

Not to mention that at this same point 10 years into Tesla’s existence the Model S was in full production of 1,000 cars a week and Motor Trend Car of the Year.

Yikes!

I used Google Recorder which creates a real-time transcription and an audio file. After each chapter I'd back them up to Google Drive.

For my normal writing, I use Scrivener which is autosaved to Dropbox.

Fair point. It's an unedited mess and not my best work. As an example, here's what the start of it looks like right now:

Nobody knows what to tell you what a funeral. Especially when it's your own parents who died in a murder suicide. Everybody just sort of looks at you and stares and maybe stumbles through. I'm sorry, or let me know if there's anything I can do to help. What the fuck can they do to help? What the fuck are they sorry for? My dad's the one to blame. He's the one that took the shotgun blast to my mom and stomach in the face, and then shot his own fucking brains out. He's the one that needs to be sorry. What can you do to help? I don't know. Build a fucking time machine that help. I try not to be angry. But it's hard not to be every face. Everybody who looks at all the swollen eyes of the tears. Some are really I think all of it is just too much. I don't want to be here. I want to be anywhere else but here.

But I just don't know where that is.

So I just sit in the corner as people come up to me and tell me how bad they feel. I just shake my head, shake their hand, take a hug and want it or not,

and just sit back down

and stare at the closed coffin. Where my mom's bodies lane. God damn it couldn't even have an open coffin. Nope. No dad had to shoot her in the face.

Who saw that coming?

I didn't

say it was a surprise was a goddamn understatement. But here I am. 15 orphan orphan 15 Are you really an orphan? When you're 15 I mean, I guess so. But I always thought of orphans as babies and small children and Harry Potter.

That doesn't fit me.

I'm the author of the post. I'll be checking in here throughout the day if anyone has any questions and walks to talk about writing processes, etc.

"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 not instill me with confidence in the engineering acumen of the designers.