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Back during the times of the Ancient Greeks, there were Tragedies and Comedies. What kind of story it is comes from the architecture of the story:

Structure of a Tragedy: "They're going to win, they're going to win, they're going to win--they lose."

Structure of a Comedy: "They're going to lose, they're going to lose, they're going to lose--they win."

As you see, it is the reversal that makes the story pattern.

Great example: In 1840, Charles Dickens was writing the serial novel "The Old Curiosity Shop". It was published in weekly serial installments over 88 weeks. Dickens was writing it as it was being published. The story is about a Grandfather and his granddaugter Little Nell. The grandfather owes a huge amount money to a loan shark Quilp. Quilp says pay me by giving me Little Nell.

The story is about the flight of the old man and little girl across the London countryside with Quilp in pursuit.

As Dickens was writing the story (and published two chapters a week), his friend John Forster said: "You know you're going to have to kill her." Dickens was horrified because he realized he had been writing a Tragedy--which had to end in "they lose".

In the famous account, when oceanliners crossed the Atlantic Ocean with copies of the 88th and final installment, a crowd of 100,000+ were waiting on the docks of Boston harbor, all yelling the same thing to the debarking passengers: "Is Little Nell dead?" She was.

"Fiction is not interior decorating--it's architecture"--Ernest Hemingway.

"The Hero with a Thousand Faces" "Story Structure Architect"

1. Get yourself to write anything.

2. Get yourself to write every day.

3. Get yourself to continue writing something you previously started.

4. Improve the quality of your writing with specific detail.

5. Learn that it's not enough to just have specific detail--it must be significant detail.

6. Learn about the architecture of story.

7. "Story Structure Architect" by Victoria Lynn Schmidt.

I have completed 13 book manuscripts, and had 4 published. My last thriller novel got me an agent. (Took me 2 years for the original draft followed by 4 years of rewrites over 30 drafts.)

No, you have DEFEATED thoughts of suicide every day since then. A major accomplishment in my book.

Hydrogen is not the answer.

This decision will eventually be seen as a colossal mistake.

If they plan to use solar photovoltaic to make hydrogen, then it's much more efficient to just use the electricity directly, without going through hydrogen.

They will end up making brown hydrogen and won't admit it, doing absolutely nothing to help the climate catastrophe--but they will be able to claim in public that they are.

Ridiculous! All these crude "AI"s making these tiny inroads into accomplishing some tasks does not a sentient critter make. Thinking your device, which is a million times simpler than the only extant intelligence--the brain, is just a joke. It will take an entirely different approach and lots more resources.

Anything by Jordan Peterson.

Be in control of your destiny.

What an amazing article, and bravo to the researchers for this amazing analysis.

Now, I will get onto my down voting. I have watched generations of men devote himself to video games. They develop amazing skills in these artificial worlds. At the same time, I was reading tons of books, writing a few of my own and generally avoiding TV and video game. Of course, I was the freak. But I cannot wonder if that life in the fantasy land a video game has not left its traces in these men.

Delicious. Somebody with $34 million of loose cash just got shown reality.

This means anybody who gets a blood donation is getting a nice dose of forever chemicals.

I have worked for decades with persons from India. Their caste issue and the way it affects every area of their lives is a real problem that needs to be solved. Just as American racism is a problem that needs to be solved, Indian caste biases need to be solved.

You're asking people to give away their billion-dollar startup ideas...

It’s a question of how he can handle complexity. Is he organized. Is he able to focus on one thing at a time. Is he willing to read books, and do coding alongside the reading. If you can answer yesterday, age does not matter.

Yes there is, and coincidentally it’s called G and it stands for general intelligence.

I was a journalist, and a foreign correspondent. Software engineering was the second career, not the first.

I will be curious to see on what grounds the current right-falling-over court will justify this abomination against the First Amendment.

Can you order it from Jeff Bezos?

This should have been obvious to anyone who has ever gotten drunk.

Alcohol is a poison. To think otherwise is wishful thinking.

Tips make for better customers.

This permafrost melt is what will finally kill us off.

The executives behind these industries that are wantonly polluting and leading us inexorably to climate catastrophe are going to have to explain to their kids why it was Climate Genocide was necessary... for the sake of the shareholders.

Then, there's this lovely place: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...

Years ago, when I was living on the West Coast and interviewing for a job in NYC, the hiring manager misunderstood me, thinking I was asking for more money, upped their offer by $30k. I did not make the hiring manager aware of the misunderstanding.

That sort of lucky accident would likely not occur after this law. But on balance, it's a great idea.

I agree with this 1000%.

It has to do with whether or not the person being tested is right brain dominant or left brain dominant. The vast majority of people are left brain dominant and for them multitasking is extremely difficult because of the linear sequential nature of the left hemisphere.

Right brained people, those with the right brain dominant over the left, have an easier time multitasking because the right brain is image oriented. The right brain processes information as images are processed, In a visual simultaneous manner.

In the past, Google's motto was: "Don't be evil."

Their new one; "Evil."

The linked article is a writing atrocity. Bad writing.

I despise Trump in general but I have to admit this is the ONE good thing I've heard about the bastard.

Started my first programming job at age 35. No experience. Now, 24 years later, I am doing great. It's never too late.