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mikertrice

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Lecturer in Rhetoric. Parageographer. So very many children.

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Oh. Canada.

mikertrice OP ,
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@SJohnRoss NHL

mikertrice , to random
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So the D&D and STEM series has 8 scheduled interviews.

Folks, I'm gonna need to name this series.

mikertrice OP ,
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@SJohnRoss There's some variance, though D&D is extremely common so far. So far.

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@SJohnRoss However, D&D in my toot was more a lazy shorthand than a confirmation it would be all D&D. I know at least one roboticist really into Cyberpunk Red.

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@SJohnRoss I mean, I'm a trailer park kid with a doctorate, so I rule nothing out!

mikertrice OP ,
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@SJohnRoss That sounds like quite the story! I was the scholarship type, though I lost it after two years and became the retail scholarship type. Luckily state schools were more affordable in the the late 90s.

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Asked ChatGPT4 to give me 12 dwarven names with short back stories and a hook each.

All 12 names were from the Hobbit.

Asked it to try again with no Tolkien names.

3 of the 12 were from the Hobbit.

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@Tim_Eagon It's weird because D&D dwarven names really should make up a larger percentage of the dataset.

mikertrice OP ,
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@Tim_Eagon Flint Fireforge lacks the cultural capital of Thorin, but he definitely has more books out there with his name in them.

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Also, the backstories are cliched nonsense. Apparently this society is 70% soldiers and mercenaries. Not a single farmer nor rancher. The only craft worker: a blacksmith.

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@Tim_Eagon True. It really raises a lot of questions about training data.

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@Tim_Eagon This society would collapse fast.

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@Tim_Eagon Yep. Which is fascinating as it suggests a lot of Gen AI is blog content.

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I watched the third episode of The Acolyte last night, and I see today that its online reception has been very contentious. I thought it had it's share of problems in the pacing and acting department (with the exception of the girl who played Leia in Kenobi, Star Wars has not had a good track record with child actors), but the writing was deliberately vague and ambiguous to preserve the season's larger mystery, so I'll reserve judgement for now to see how it plays out.

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@DM_Zeppelin @Tim_Eagon I would have preferred if the series maintained its detective series vibe without the flashback, but I get that it is Star Wars, so have to get our lore dump. It was subpar ep for me in a fine, cheesy series.

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@Tim_Eagon @DM_Zeppelin Interesting (and a staple of more recent detective stories), but I hope not because the framing feels all wrong for that at this point.

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@DM_Zeppelin @Tim_Eagon 75 year old spoilers ahead! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon

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@Tim_Eagon @DM_Zeppelin I certainly hope we don't get two more episodes in a limited run doing that. But it's possible.

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