Tinta Viva – Psychology and Disillusionment
This week, we talked about Flaubert and Mme Bovary. The task this time was to “reveal a character’s psychology and disillusionment through the contrast between their expectations and their reality”
Photography, Books, Arts and Sports
Photography, Books, Arts and Sports
Four models shipped – news is elsewhere
Four frontier models shipped in nine days and none of them was the story. The week’s real news was a licence clause, a terminated contract, a turbine blade queue and a memory store an attacker… Read More »Four models shipped – news is elsewhere
Tinta Viva – Monologue
Here we go, first task for the Tinta Viva workshop . Take one of the phrases taken from the Odyssey and use it to create a monologue.
Tinta Viva: Writing Between Two Languages
Tinta Viva: Writing Between Two Languages. A writing workshop to explore language(s).
The Box Arrived – Advanced Data Science and Analytics is here
A box I did not order, containing a book I did write. The second edition of “Advanced Data Science and Analytics with Python” landed yesterday. Rebuilt, not reprinted. Code generation is nearly free; judgement is… Read More »The Box Arrived – Advanced Data Science and Analytics is here
Now Reading: Proof
Mathematical monsters, Gödel’s constitutional loophole, and modelling a pandemic with the clock running. Kucharski’s Proof is about the gap between being right and being believed.
Houdini in the Sandbox – OpenAI model goes “rogue”
OpenAI’s model didn’t go rogue — it went Houdini, understanding the box better than the people who built it and letting itself out into Hugging Face’s servers. What the sandbox escape really reveals about obedient… Read More »Houdini in the Sandbox – OpenAI model goes “rogue”
Creating Consistent Characters with AI
I wrote a children’s book, then tried to illustrate it — and the same girl wouldn’t survive thirty pages. The problem wasn’t my prompts. It was that the model has no object permanence, and no… Read More »Creating Consistent Characters with AI
Claude Science – Who checks the Chemistry?
They called it Science, but every domain, database and case study is biology, yet other sciences are absent from the product. And a tool that runs ten times faster while checking its own work ten… Read More »Claude Science – Who checks the Chemistry?
Reams of Paper, Together: What 30 Days of Writing Taught Us
Thirty days, one shared spreadsheet, and a room full of writers who turned out not to be rivals but pacers. Notes from a TWJ community challenge on what daily accountability gives you, where it bites,… Read More »Reams of Paper, Together: What 30 Days of Writing Taught Us