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If you've read American Gods , this is really very similar, albeit focused more on action and less on mythology. Same rascally male character with an uncertain origin discovering a world of gods, monsters and that they're kind of the same thing. I don't know why it's called Unclean Spirits . Truly it makes no sense to me after reading the book, but I guess it needed a title. Chuck Wendig is a…
Intro Ever since LLMs entered the scene I have been lamenting the blunt human refusal to acknowledge the similarities between how LLMs work and how people work. These are not just parallels, they are actual copies. LLMs are working on the neural network architecture distilled from how brains work. Language for us works like language for AI. We are animals with large language models strapped on. In…
A short opinion on what AI is actually replacing. Fears are that AI is replacing people, because so many companies are firing people and implementing artificial intelligence alternatives. But the person is still there, the "person" role was never supplanted. Instead, it's the business role of that person that is. I see you rolling your eyes at me because it's all semantics and it boils down to the…
Intro This is going to be a very long rant. And by the end it's going to get a bit depressing and overdramatic. But also revelatory, I hope. If you think I am going off the rails here, let me know. I would love to hear your arguments. I have a job now I have been trying to get a job for a while now and I just got one. Why did it take so long? Because in just a few years, the market for software…
Requirement You are on a web page, using JavaScript, and have a reference to an element node. And you want to select the immediate children of that node using the general syntax used by querySelectorAll , maybe with some extra constraints. What do you do? Failed attempt The CSS syntax for children of a node is using the greater-than character, something like this: #parentNode > * , but as soon as…
Barbara Hambly has her own voice, that's for sure. The book is good, not perfect, but certainly feels unique. The characters are flawed, but make the best of what they've got, using cunning and planning, their minds always in conflict with their hearts. The first book in the series was the same, it seemed to be a standard fantasy story, but the characters' depth changed everything. Dragonshadow…
Alien: Colony War is a classical Alien story in the "Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe": state, corporate and military corruption and greed, individual bravery and struggle, xenomorphs and mothers willing to protect their children, the occasional psychopath. Entertaining. I feel the author understands and respects the Alien universe. Alien has a successful recipe, one that unlike other…
Wow, I really loved this book! I started reading it because of the title, expecting to read about how technology evolves ever faster and leaves people in the dust. I mean, it's very apropos these days. But then I've read the first chapter and it was a standard biographical analysis of a scientist in the 20th century. And then there was another, then an entire story about another. I love science…
So you read a book, and it's not great. It's something that you imagine you could spin up in a few months after a writing course. The ideas are derivative, the characters are cardboard cutouts and the writing is merely decent. It does push some emotional buttons, so you enjoy it as much as one can and then reach its end. And the acknowledgements come. Are these things designed to feel small and…
If you're into heroic space opera, this is pretty fun. The only problem is that it ignores any science and sometimes logic, but if you can get over that, the experience is pretty fun. The Last Watch starts with the standard rich rascally aristocrat thrown against his will into military service, where he proceeds to be better than everybody even when doubting his own self worth. Not only is he…