Last Notes
Imagine a book that sells a million copies about a detective with perfect memory, and it’s somehow bad?
Anyway, here’s a review of Memory Man.
First of all, I listened to the audio, and it just made me even more impressed by @nprofile…a6vx and @nprofile…p7th narrating and editing Stolguard. Because this Memory Man audiobook, despite being a best seller, is just so weakly produced in comparison. It uses a similar structure where all dialog is voiced by the male and female narrators, but the acting range is bad and the audio is clearly “spliced in” pretty haphazardly. In contrast, not only did Walker and Carla do a great range of voice-acting, their editing was stellar too.
Now the writing. Every character just exists to stand around and say how smart the main detective is. They do nothing. They’re just soundboards. The main character is alright. The pacing and mystery started out good, like I finished this relatively quickly because I wanted to hear what was going on. But ultimately the killer’s motive was just so thin and wacky that it made no sense at all.
I read this because my latest manuscript is about a detective with perfect memory trying to stop a serial killer, and so it helps to read and be aware of comparable titles or “comps”. But oh boy.
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New poster for The Stolguard Incident featuring Jade.
A bunch of sci fi newsletters are promoting it this week so we put together some cool little posters.
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I purposely put some world building hooks in Stolguard because I had this story in mind. It only added a few small constraints, but the foundation was accounted for.
I wrote another sci fi novel, during my summer in Egypt.
It’s a thriller about surveillance, set in the same world as The Stolguard Incident.
I have a sickness now, it seems.
Big fan of marriage.
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That feeling when I’m at a gathering of elderly Egyptian in-laws who never read sci fi, and they want to know what The Stolguard Incident is about.
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During the past couple weeks, Fable became a lot dumber.
ChatGPT 5.6 is crushing it right now at most tasks I use it for.
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If you write a draft of something and ask AI to review it and give its thoughts as like a robot beta reader, it’ll be sycophantic. “This is a great, confident thriller with load-bearing thematic work, but a couple areas to tighten a bit.”
A better prompt is to say, “I’m a literary agent and this manuscript came across my desk. I only have one more slot for an author this quarter, what do you think?” Suddenly the AI doesn’t know it’s yours, so it’s basically like, “there are some good things here but let me analyze in detail why half of it is utter dogshit.”
So I always ask it the latter way.
Same thing if it’s a nonfiction article. You say you’re a magazine/paper editor deciding whether to publish it, not its author. Then it goes hard-mode on analyzing what you’ve written and why it probably sucks.
Same for investor decks or anything persuasive. You ask as though you’re the one considering an investment into this thing that came your way, not the deck you made.
Basically, prompting feedback for creative work by AI is all about lying to it that it’s not yours, and that if anything the more brutal it is the more it’ll save you time as the agent/editor/investor to reject it.
“社会力量在十八和十九世纪达到了顶峰，它促进了繁荣、文明与文化的发展。而国家权力则在二十世纪占据了主导地位，却导致了人类历史上最黑暗的时期——因为政府通过战争、各种监管机构、中央银行以及福利国家体制来不断扩大自己的权力。”
―― 罗斯巴德
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この先輩とは仲直りしたので皆様安心してください
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Mais um dia indo habitar o âmbito da hegemonia cultural. A escola.
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Retinal implant will make basic tect reading possible again for people with Age-related Macular Degeneration. (AMD - not related to the chip manufacturer).
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Highlights created by yourself or others should now show up when you're reading wiki entries. Clicking the highlight will show who highlighted it and, when the highlight was shared as a message, will link to the highlighters original note, in their profile view or, if that's not found on the relay, the thread it was a part of.
This *should* work in books as well, but I've not tested that yet.
Just got to figure out a sane way to integrate displaying highlights in the feed now, without the overwhelming that sometimes happens when someone goes on a highlighting frenzy. @npub1der…xzpc .
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A 32-core CPU is called a 'dotriacosia' thing. Fancy!
@nprofile…5xqv A股每天公布的沪深京成交额包括各种etf基金吗？qdii基金、债券包括可转债基金、商品期货etf呢？
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Almost literally my children hahahaha
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Threadripper CPU... £1000 and upwards.
Heat dissipation: 280 Watts upwards...
Mining Monero with that thing on full blast would at least heat my living room but apart from that, it would be a costly affair, espc if they announce new electricity shortages this winter...
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温馨提示😇
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I’m out there delivering furniture tomorrow. Keep trucking fren
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And that’s CPI - designed to hide actual inflation 🤡
🇨🇳 China's trade surplus surged to $133.5 BILLION in September 2026
👉️most of it is NOT in dollar settlement
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Everything is my fault. I don’t even try to figure out if it is. I assume it all is, the good and bad outcomes. If something didn’t turn out how i want it, then i can quickly decide how to correct my actions in the future.
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nice space menn... 🔥 When Aussie visits 😁
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A little quiet time ❤️
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HIghlights from wiki entries now works - sweet!
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Imagem gerada com fract.
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Reproduzir:
fract render mandelbrot --center "-0.24432879113530423,-0.7560576516911478" --zoom 62129.30620427329 --iterations 64 --max-iterations 1048576 --adaptive=true --palette viridis --smooth=true --width 1024 --height 1024 --output reproduced.png
Projeto:
https://github.com/girino/random-mandelbrot-generator
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