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How does AI stay current? I asked this question of Gemini yesterday. I started with an easy one, asking about how it stays up to date... -
skip.knox replied to the thread What random rabbit holes have you gone down while researching?.*chortle* Mine's an amalgam, but one professor I remember especially who told me coldly there is no such thing as a typo. One of the...
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skip.knox replied to the thread What random rabbit holes have you gone down while researching?.I hear you. Yeah, if you have a specific question--and you do--and you go haring off in other directions, that's on you. <g> I do have...
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skip.knox reacted to JLiana's post in the thread What random rabbit holes have you gone down while researching? with
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I see what you mean! In my defense, I did search "what painkillers were used in medieval Finland" (the story I'm writing about is... -
skip.knox replied to the thread What random rabbit holes have you gone down while researching?.>I was researching medieval medicine and painkillers My first observation is a question: why were you researching this? Did you just...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How do you name characters?.I prefer to have some internal consistency with names, so I look for resources. Two of my favorites are on this thread. Medieval Names...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Most recent books you bought..Re-reading Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey. Read it once in my youth. The physical book disappeared long ago, so I bought an...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Searching for someone to nitpick my worldbuilding.Not at all awkward. The historian who is uncomfortable being corrected on points of fact really ought to find another occupation. The...
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skip.knox reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread Searching for someone to nitpick my worldbuilding with Like.
At this point I'm going to be awkward and point out that both quotes are, in their original form, from Graf Helmuth von Moltke the...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Searching for someone to nitpick my worldbuilding.Here is the best way to stress test your worldbuilding: write a novel. Seriously. You can have multiple sets of eyes on your...
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skip.knox reacted to Sheilawisz's post in the thread A couple of studies regarding AI writing with Like.
Just a friendly reminder that snide, degrading and derisive comments go against the Forum rules of Mythic Scribes. We appreciate a more...
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I was probably a little sloppy with this comment. Maybe I should have said something like...to the degree that you are using AI, I am...
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skip.knox reacted to Demesnedenoir's post in the thread A couple of studies regarding AI writing with Like.
They are also trained on a lot of slop. AI for writing at its current state might be a bit like millions of AI monkeys typing, but their...
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skip.knox reacted to Eduardo Ficaria's post in the thread A couple of studies regarding AI writing with Love.
The rules in Amazon KDP are more nuanced than what you describe Mad Swede . Below I copy their current official Content Guidelines about...
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skip.knox replied to the thread The Lord of the Rings.LotR absolutely is the better movie. I still remember reading Sam Delaney's review of the movie in the magazine Cosmos. He hits the...