Dwayne Phillips' Day Book

Items I happen to view each day. Science, Technology, Management, Culture, and Writing

    This is my day book for this week. It is a log of things I see on the Internet.


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This week: 18-24 March, 2024

Summary of this week:


Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday


Monday 18 March 2024

Asus releases a new and smaller GPU card for all PCs.

Qualcomm shows a new Snapdragon processor that brings top performance to middle-tier smartphones.

xAI open sources parts of its Grok LLM.

Meanwhile in American high schools, some schools are returning to to paper newspapers instead of all on the phone.

It appears that there is no accepted certification in "crypto." As a result, there are lots of pretenders.

Speculating about future uses of SpaceX's Starship.

Some insight into the disaster that is recycling of plastics. It just doesn't happen.

One writer's eight steps to writing for a living $$$.

Another writer gives their take on the same topic.

It is easy to waste time and money on writers' workshops. That is a shame.

Here is a post that discusses the 10,000 hours it takes to become a proficient writer.

Categories of what fiction is intended to bring us: (1) Entertainment (2) Observation (3) Self-Examination (4) Empathy (5) Wisdom

I'll condense this post into just one quote, "Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

Want to read memoirs? Here's a list.

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Tuesday 19 March 2024

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Wednesday 20 March 2024

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Thursday 21 March 2024

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Saturday 23 March 2024

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Sunday 24 March 2024

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