#WritersCoffeeClub 30Oct—Do you tend to include epilogues?
A piece of fiction needs to deliver *closure* at the end—to answer the questions it raises, emotional as well as plot-related ("did they live happily ever after" vs. "did the good guys win"). Needing an epilogue often implies poor planning by the author, because the natural end of the story failed to deliver this pay-off. (Rarely: the epilogue is there to settle a question that wasn't explicit in the story but implied, adding depth.)
Uploaded another Roddenberry Archive interior to my website, the USS Enterprise-D bridge from ST: Generations.
I'm particularly proud of this one as a ton of research went into it. Plus I got to design some of the LCARS that were never seen on screen, with the approval of Mike Okuda.
You can see many more renders at https://tadeodoria.com/projects/AZeR3W?album_id=8654111
And you can walk around this set on The Roddenberry Archive website: https://roddenberry.x.io/2371-uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-d-GEN/?view=Main
In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan
https://mymodernmet.com/daniel-kordan-kazakhstan-photography/
It takes only 250 documents to poison a 13-billion parameter LLM.
"The asymmetry problem is fundamental: training is easy, untraining is impossible," he says. "We can't identify which 250 documents caused poisoning or remove their influence without complete retraining."
https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/only-250-documents-poison-any-ai-model
Trying to explain networking details and the conversation has become:
"So HTTP/3.... no, wait. Backup.
So, QUIC. No...
UDP is....
The thing about IP...
So you've got an 802.3 frame, right?
Alright, so the voltage potential alternates for 56 cycles to establish synchronization and exclusivity on the wire..."
BASIC Code is a new retrocomputing blog that posts refactored and adapted "40-year-old type-in listings from 80s books and microcomputing magazines".
My boss asked me "what new skills do you think web developers will need in two years", which gave me an opportunity to tell her about my recent efforts to learn urban foraging and how to identify edible plants in my neighborhood.
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#flexibleWork #remoteWork #ReturnToOffice https://mastodon.social/@mklopez/115187361052628583
Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/
Someone has pointed out, quite rightly, that I really should tag @standupmaths when I mention a video that he has made.
I'm not sure appearing in a video counts as a connection for an Erdős number, much as people might hope it might.
So ... the monostable (or self-righting) tetrahedron:
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