i'm bats, i talk about books a lot & i am Very Normal about the saw movies
tags for my various book liveblogs are under the cut. all of these liveblogs (and a few secret ones π) are archived on my neocities.
feel free to look at my creatures on dragon cave, magistream, and the final outpost
mile high with a vampire by lynsay sands
the last final girl by stephen graham jones
pear by josh malerman
grave witch by kalayna price
blood price by tanya huff
i'm in love with mothman by paige lavoie
the deep by nick cutter
the haunting of ashburn house by darcy coates
can't spell treason without tea by rebecca thorne
our wives under the sea by julia armfield
looking for love in all the haunted place by claire kann
ghost tamer by meredith r lyons
my roommate is a vampire by jenna levine
emily wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries by heather fawcett
a coup of tea by casey blair
nancy drew #1: the secret of the old clock by carolyn keene
nancy drew #2: the hidden staircase by carolyn keene
nancy drew #3: the bungalow mystery by carolyn keene
nancy drew #4: the mystery at lilac inn by carolyn keene
nancy drew #5: the secret of shadow ranch by carolyn keene
the lost locket by marie harte
the monk and robot series by becky chambers
mystery case files #1: stolen by jordan gray
haunted homicide by lucy ness
extinction by douglas preston
the anomaly by michael rutger
retrocog by marie harte
death warmed over by kevin j. anderson
murder she wrote #1: gin & daggers by jessica fletcher and donald bain
events:
november nancython
murder she may
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for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.
Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.
Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.
And so on.
The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.
But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.
If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.
But they wouldn't understand any of it.
That's ChatGPT.
And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.
But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.
sometimes I see posts like this and wonder what this post must be like for people who donβt play mtg. this joke must have an entirely different texture if you donβt know who this man is and what he has done to me personally
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My liege im sorry to break it to you but your advisor that's actually evil and wants you dead turned out to be straight. I know you really wanted to have an enemies to lovers situation with him. Yeah I'm afraid the poisoning didn't hold any romantic intent behind it. The king of the enemy kingdom is bisexual though, I could send him a letter? Yes, I'll make sure to include multiple threats of homoerotic nature. You will have your toxic yaoi, my liege
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Sorry, Millennials, but recent paleontologist findings and hyolaryngeal apparatus reconstructions no longer support the hypothesis that "rawr" means "I love you" in dinosaur.
i block ppl all the time so my blocklist ranges from "actual fucking asshole fascist" n "post that mildly annoyed me because im petty" and if i went thru my blocklist rn i probably would have no idea why i blocked each of them but whatever
new type of stress dream revealed. i was at a standup comedy show and realized i was the act and i was supposed to have an entire 30 minute routine prepared. i told the stage manager i had nothing ready and she said "but NPR is here!"
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