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This week in the Tinta Viva workshop we talked about The Perfume by Patrick Süskind and saw how the sense of smell is a powerful tool but now one that is exploited a lot in literature. This is partly because we may lack the language to do so; well utilised it evokes deep emotions and intense memories in the… Read More »Tinta Viva – El Camino Naraja / The Orange Path
The task for this week was to build a short story in seven stages, moving from setting the scene and building expectation, through tension, suspense, conflict and intrigue, to an ending that resolves the conflict… Read More »Tinta Viva – Conflict
This time we imagine we are talking to Time, but not in an abstract way, as a character.
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”
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
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. A writing workshop to explore language(s).
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
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.
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”
