As a fully-committed reverse-centaur, when the LLMs are starved, my stomach growls. That is all my life is any more, within the boundaries of work.
Outside of work I spend my time recovering from work. So it goes.
Reading
At random I pulled Derek Künsken‘s The Quantum Magician from the shelf a couple of weeks ago. It is quite good! Quantum Magician is an Oceans Eleven-style caper, set several hundred years in the future and starring a cast of heavily modified humans and the occasional AI. Recommended.
Writing
As mentioned last week, the River City Poetry Collective and the Grand Rapids Poet Laureate have put out a call for submissions for a time capsule project. Grand Rapids poets are invited to contribute a poem to be placed in a time capsule which will be opened fifty years from now, in the year 2076. I am playing around with some ideas. A letter to future Grand Rapids. A letter to future me. An offer to open lines of communication, because causality is bunk. The deadline is in a few weeks, which is plenty of time to procrastinate until the very last minute.
Weekly Writing Prompt
Subject: Artificial Intelligence, Cyborgs
Setting: Virtual Reality
Genre: Utopian
Interesting Links
- “The Iran War, China, and the Future of Sea Power” (Haig Hovaness, Naked Capitalism)
- “Hoover Dam is losing power. Inside the ‘slowest-moving train wreck in history’” (Darren Orf, MSN)
- “USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports” (Ed Pilkington, The Guardian)
- “The End of ‘Silent AI’? Emerging AI Exclusions, Coverage Fragmentation, and Practical Implications for Policyholders” (Heidi Lawson and Sarah Hopkins, Fenwick)