(Beth Turnage Blog) Professor Halloran stood before the class and adjusted the display behind him. “HTML was not technically a programming language. It was a markup language. Notice the paired opening and closing tags. This forced early internet users to think hierarchically.” Madison raised her hand. “But why didn’t they just tell the AI what […]
When you are pecking at your keyboard in the wee hours of the morning, you wonder if what you’re writing is any good. Even I, who have worked as a ghostwriter for nine and half years question if what I’m, churning out crafting will entertain readers. Many of us turn to Beta readers for feedback, […]
When you are pecking at your keyboard in the wee hours of the morning, you wonder if what you’re writing is any good. Even I, who have worked as a ghostwriter for nine and half years question if what I’m, churning out crafting will entertain readers. Many of us turn to Beta readers for feedback, […]
You’ve written an outline, and things are going great. You are cooking on all burners and the story is flowing—until it isn’t. Maybe, you got a brilliant idea during a chapter, or a character gets rowdy, and takes it over, or—you know how it is. The chapter that is now bears little resemblance to the […]
You’ve written an outline, and things are going great. You are cooking on all burners and the story is flowing—until it isn’t. Maybe, you got a brilliant idea during a chapter, or a character gets rowdy, and takes it over, or—you know how it is. The chapter that is now bears little resemblance to the […]
One of my favorite benefits of using AI is its ability to gather research information in and ordered list for your consideration.However, you must exercise caution in using this information, as Chat is prone to fudge its results. You should check it against internet sources. Yet, the wealth of what it digs up is impressive, […]
Forget the controversy over whether to use AI in your prose. This issue will shake out as writers use AI more and develop best practices in writing fiction with AI. But you can do some things with AI that help you with the mundane writing tasks that help to speed up your work with nasty […]
Nearly ten years ago, before ChatGPT was a twinkle in its creators’ eyes, in one (nearly finished) I wrote, two of my characters created a program they called Timebender they used to predict future events based on information models fed into it to make military and business decisions. Highly proprietary, only three people in the […]
As a software engineer, I have more than a passing interest in the field of Machine Learning (ML). I don’t work in that field, but I have spent a lot of time exploring the data structures and code used in the field. I certainly don’t consider myself an alarmist, but a few things are clear about […]