Compelling Science Fiction helps you find thought-provoking written SF in the hard science fiction vein.
Boulder, CO
Joined April 2016
- Tweets393
- Following110
- Followers444
- Likes446
Compelling SF retweeted
Eliezer: *screaming*
Greg Brockman: " So we'll copy paste this generated code and just run it. Oh, error message. So we'll just paste that error message back into the machine and it'll give us some new code. Then we just copy paste that—"
Eliezer: *scream goes ultrasonic*
Compelling SF retweeted
hey guys, data scientist here. Seeing a lot of terminology being misused. how it works is: anything *before* 1701 is technical a "Bayesian prior" (bec it's prior to Bayes) anything *after* 1761 is known as a "Bayesian posterior".
Compelling SF retweeted
Excellent thread articulating if how providentialist thinking weakens empathy and enables social harm in the USA. And it goes so deep that some who reject Xianity still repeat it, projecting it onto the free market & claiming the hand of capitalism sorts for moral virtue.
Compelling SF retweeted
This Is Just To Say
I have deleted
the "microservices"
that were in
the timeline
and which
you were probably
saving
for 2fa
Forgive me
the memes were so sickkk
🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Compelling SF retweeted
Just finished watching Andor. And though I now commit the cardinal sin of Expressing a Star Wars Opinion on the Internet, that was one of the best TV series I ever saw, full stop, Incredibly emotive, beautifully written and acted, superb worldbuilding detail without
Compelling SF retweeted
It hasn't been easy, but Clarkesworld has reached it's 16th anniversary. Our subscribers/supporters made this possible. If you aren't one already, we hope you'll consider joining their ranks. It makes a difference. More than you probably imagine.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/sub…
ALT Celebrating 16 years. Subscribe today. Two covers pictured: our first and our most recent.
Compelling SF retweeted
Little roundup of what's on the way from me in Nov/Dec this year. Children of Memory expands the Children universe, both zoologically and philosophically, while City of Last Chances is my first fantasy book for a while, a tangled story of crossed lives and revolution.
Compelling SF retweeted
Hello, world! Meet my new novel.
Reap3r follows a quantum computer scientist, virologist, podcaster, venture capitalist, and assassin who come together to untangle a twisted enigma that will change the course of future history.
amazon.com/gp/product/B09PZN…
Compelling SF retweeted
My house burned down on Dec 30 in the most expensive wildfire in state history (context: nytimes.com/2022/01/02/us/co… #MarshallFire). After a week of difficulties, here are some things I want to pass along to others who might live in states that are drier than normal:
Compelling SF retweeted
My new novel, THE BOOK OF ALL SKIES, is set on a world where you can walk through a “Hoop” and find yourself beneath different constellations.
More details & a link to an excerpt here:
gregegan.net/ALLSKIES/AllSki…
Currently an ebook from Amazon, Smashwords; other stores & POD soon.
Compelling SF retweeted
FUN FACT
J.J. Thomson won the Nobel in Physics in 1906 when he showed electrons were particles.
His son G. P. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 for showing that electrons are waves.
🧐
Compelling SF retweeted
I just backed the new science-fiction short story collection from @joe_stech and @CompellingSF that riffs on Fermi's famous thought experiment.
Readers, check it out, back it, and enjoy.
Writers, submit your best work.
🚀
kickstarter.com/projects/joe…
Compelling SF retweeted
It is for a story!
When it's written and published, I'll definitely be informing my mailing list: janelleshane.activehosted.co…
Compelling SF retweeted
I just backed @CompellingSF @joe_stech The Fermi Paradox Project on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/joe…
Compelling SF retweeted
I backed The Fermi Paradox Project by @CompellingSF now on @kickstarter
If funded, @joe_stech will be looking for short story submissions of on the subject of mankind's search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
kickstarter.com/projects/joe…
Compelling SF retweeted
My bud @joe_stech has a new project: a collection of sci-fi short stories addressing the Fermi Paradox. Excited to read this one and just donated! kickstarter.com/projects/joe…
Compelling SF retweeted
I just backed The Fermi Paradox Project on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/joe…
Compelling SF retweeted
Always exciting to see a new science fiction project by @joe_stech of @CompellingSF! On one of the big classic questions of the universe, too. kickstarter.com/projects/joe…