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like a haphazard tangle of wires, cables, and components grafted at random to a metal frame, but every module, field generator, and dedicated processor had been custom built for this experiment. Collectively, it represented three years of my life and more than $9 million of funding. . The ...
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The story feels like a children’s fantasy with all the funny names for evolution’s new creations, but I believe Aldiss was serious in trying to make it science fiction. Think of the writing challenge of describing an impossible-to-imagine far future. Jack Vance pictured humans with magical...
Scheherazade, An Open Story GeneratorSheherazade is an open story generator; it is computer software that can generate stories in an unknown area. It automatically learns a domain model by crowdsourcing a corpus of narrative examples and (b) generates stories by sampling from the space defined by...
Yes, science fiction has made me into a “nerd” (书呆子), and it also has been a source of joy for my family, making me an optimist while enabling me to think critically about the danger of technology. Thank those authors who have shared their visions; the world and my family are ...
In my research process, there comes a point where my brain switches over from learning science facts to making up science fiction. Over the last month of so, I’ve been doing a ton of research on carcinization. In that time, I have not become an expert on this topic—not by a long...
(MHD) generator. Huge radiators would be required and the overall efficiency of the power source would be ~22%. In fact there’s a theorem that any thermal power source in space has its highest specific power when the Carnot efficiency is just 25%, thanks to the need to minimise radiator...
“Hadn’t you ever thought of Vladik?” Dennis asked gently. “Vladik, who, to prove something to you . . . and mostly to himself, joined the expedition not so much as a biologist but more as a sperm generator?” “Shut up.” ...
I have been playing with the beta version of Amazon’s Virtual Voice, the AI audiobook generator, and now all three books of the Sequoyah series have audio versions! Sometimes the AI was comical in its pronunciation attempts but it did very well considering how many completely made-up terms ...