Month: August 2024

Saved By The Length Limit

~ James Viscosi ~ 10 Comments
And I was looking in a mirror, too!
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The Early Years: Can We Lift It? Probably Not!

~ James Viscosi ~ 16 Comments

So this week I decided to take a break from being curmudgeonly about AI to sift through the giant stack of my old papers that my folks sent me a while back; but this time, near the top of the pile, I found something that wasn’t an old bad drawing or me asking rude questions. Instead, it was a mysterious list of weights.

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It’s The Words (And Sentences) That Got Small

~ James Viscosi ~ 10 Comments

So the other day, while putting together a post on that other, much more popular blog of mine, I noticed that there were all these mysterious, super-thick underlines appearing all over the place. As it turns out, these were yet another new “AI”* feature that WordPress had activated automatically which was analyzing my sentences so that it could suggest ways to “improve” them. Here’s an example:

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Teaser Tuesday: “Smoke & Summons”

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So this week I was reading Smoke & Summons, by Charlie N. Holmberg:

I literally just noticed there’s a horse on this cover.
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