Data guy, AI manipulator extraordinaire
Oklahoma, USA
Joined December 2009
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Spiderman - Across the Universe is so good! So unbelievably good. It breaks so many rules and pulls them off so incredibly well. I am in awe.
In a world where storytelling often falls flat or sticks to a formula, it's so refreshing to be surprised like this.
As a parent whose kids are no longer little, but preteens, as they become more independent, it's common to mourn the loss of the relationship you had with them. But I've found the relationship doesn't go away, it just changes.
For instance, now I'm their IT support guy.
Here's a thread on a topic that maybe I should avoid - Generative AI.
In particular LLMs (like Chat-GPT).
This is a lightning rod in the writing community - and for good reason. LLMs loom as probably the single greatest threat to writers trying to make a living telling stories.
Big authors like James Patterson (who uses ghostwriters to flesh out his outlines) could probably crank out books even faster with AI assistants, flooding the market with more and more books.
Would I like that as an aspiring author? No.
Could I say it's wrong? Probably not.
I caught my son in a lie yesterday. He defended it bc it wasn't a big deal and he only did it bc he wanted to play w his friend longer.
I grounded him and told him he has to do yard work for his mom to get ungrounded.
Reader, it's 3 days into summer. Three days!!!!!
My oldest is a very independent child, but he's not reliable.
Today I took him to SBUX and explained to him that with age comes both Independence AND Responsibility. He wants the freedom of a 16yo, but the responsibility of a 3yo, and life doesn't work like that.
Last day of school was yesterday and we're already in full blown summer mode. Two of my kids had sleepovers last night, one had a pool party, and right now I've got two kids at my house that aren't mine and I'm just throwing pizza rolls at them while they watch movies. 😂
A wise man once told me:
The best way to feel young is to hang around young people. The best way to feel old is to try to keep up with them. 😅
Well, this old man just whooped them all at basketball! 🏀
Where's the ice pack? 🧊
I've seen/read a lot about AI sentience lately.
Chat-GPT is just a completion engine. It's not thinking or being genuinely creative. It's just guessing what the logical next phrase would be. An auto complete on steroids.
It's really good, but it's a looong way from sentience.
If you knew Eden, she's starting over after someone hacked her account. Give her a follow! 🙃
Here's an update on my publishing deals mini-project:
I parsed ~130 deals and have matured my script. I'm using GPT4 to help with some of the parsing. The biggest issue is that it's expensive.
I'm assessing options to scale this efficiently.
ALT Here's a sample query where I see how many deals an editor makes with particular agents. Because my sample size is small, it's not impressive, but if I parse all the deals I have, it will be much more extensive.
ALT A look at how many deals an agency does and the publishers they do it with. My query is rough, so there's still some tidying that's necessary, but it shows you what it can do.
ALT Some of the data I've extracted out of the announcement text.
ALT A look at the comps used in the book description. So far, none of them have been used more than once, but again, it's a very small sample size. If I chart these by time, I'll be able to show trends in book comps.