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.

This week: 21-27 April, 2025

Summary of this week:

• The Russians are still in Ukraine
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Monday 21 April 2025

This is new to me, but could prove quite useful as a writer.

Fascinating to me: computer vision.

Quoting the headline, "$8 billion of US climate tech projects have been canceled so far in 2025" Times change.

Quoting, "A Minecraft Movie is also the latest sign that Hollywood has finally cracked the formula for translating video games into successful films." This little movie is now a cult classic and has burst the cinema. Hollywood dramas? What?

This is what we should be doing with all this technology: turning brainwaves into speech for those who have lost the ability to speak.

And here is more of what we should be doing with all this technology. These help blind folks feel the action in sports.

I like this piece. AI as normal technology. These chattering bots have changed things since ChatGPT fell from the sky in late 2022. The word processor changed things. The laser printer plus word processor yielded desktop publishing. WOW! That was a big change. That is normal technology. Today's commercial AI products are the same. Big change, but nothing that will create or destroy the universe.

Here is another thoughtful piece on the current commercial "AI" systems. Let's all settle down, take a breath, and move forward like adults. We don't agree on any definitions. I guess this goes back to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. If we don't know where we are going, any destination will do (or something like that).

Pope Francis has died at age 88.

Someone has Llama 2 model running on a DOS machine. Someone has a lot of time on their hands. Someone is pretty darn smart.

Finally, someone takes a candid look at the college entrance essay and all its ... well, all its ridiculous and obvious problems.

Some folks who self-identify as neurodivergent hate the return to the office movement. Sigh. I guess for some folks there is something to this. Sigh.

The idea of trust your instinct in writing and reviewing.

Thoughts for fiction writers on writing non-fiction.

Short of ideas? Look at the news. Extend it five years into the future. Wild guesses, but a new world in which to write stories.

"We've adopted the mindset of Too Busy To Learn."---Seth Godin

Yet more changes in self publishing. I have not experienced difficulties.

Thoughts on everything you might do before publishing a non-fiction book. It's more marketing today.

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This subtitle summarizes this piece: How to stay grounded in the face of heroic individualism. Just say "no." Often say "no" to yourself. Pick one thing and do that for a while. Repeat the experiment.

Tuesday 22 April 2025

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Sunday 27 April 2025