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Techie, novelist, podcaster and photographer. #Choctaw.

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Making an Apple iPad Pro on the Death Star...

coggins, to ilaughed
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Pleased to have a couple of images in the North Valley Art League 2024 Western Regional Juried Photography Show.

"Foggy Trees" is one. See all the great images in the show here:

https://nval.org/nval-2024-western-regional-juried-photography-show/

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #fineart #fineartphotography #silentsunday #trees

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Terunofuji performs the Yokozuna Dohyo-Iri (ritual dance) at the start of a sumo match. The "sword bearer" on the left is Midorifuji, but I don't recognize the "dewsweeper" on the right.

Read more about it here:

https://sumowrestling.fandom.com/wiki/Dohyo-iri

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coggins, to Tokyo
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Here's a 1970s edition of DUNE. Ever wonder what short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher Tobias Wolff thought about the novel back then?

Well, now you can find out in a Q&A I did with Mark Stevens for my latest novel GEISHA CONFIDENTIAL.

We talk about the origin of my main character August Riordan and creative writing classes I took early in my career with Wolff and Ron Hansen.

https://markhstevens.wordpress.com/2024/03/09/q-a-102-mark-coggins-geisha-confidential/

@bookstodon

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“Ernest Hemingway was paid $1 a word in 1936. That's more than $21 per word in today's dollars.“

The average for most major publications these days is $1 a word (if you’re lucky!) https://defector.com/the-money-is-in-all-the-wrong-places

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@taylorlorenz I got paid about $800 in 1986 for a long short story that appeared in a trade paperback anthology. You're lucky to get over 100 these days for something of the same length.

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Well the first thing you know
Ol' Jed's a millionaire,
Kinfolk said "Jed move away from there".
Said "California's the place you outta be".
So they loaded up the truck
And they moved to Beverly.

Hills that is, Swimming pools, movie stars.

#tesla #cybertruck #elon #elonmusk

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Just stumbled across this December 2010 edition of Chess Life (which I'd never seen before).

It has a review by two-time US Women's Champion Jennifer Shahade of the chess fiction anthology MASTERS OF TECHNIQUE to which I contributed. She has some very nice things to say!

Check this interview with her in Vanity Fair about the TV series QUEEN'S GAMBIT:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/11/11/queens-gambit-a-real-life-chess-champion-on-netflixs-new-hit

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Yesterday when typing in a Google doc, autocomplete suggested the name of an interview subject. I do not store any qual data in Google Drive and all my transcripts use aliases anyway, so it freaked me out. I’m guessing gdocs uses gmail data (at least addresses) as autocomplete fodder and I know I have emailed this person from my university email (gmail) account. I’m guessing AI is going to lead to a lot of inadvertent data leakage as autocomplete++ generates more content. Be careful out there.

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@markigra I asked Bard to summarize a document I had in Google Drive. It found and referenced a document on someone else's drive by the same name, summarizing it instead.

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@simon @markigra Good question. I do think it was public because when I later went back into drive, it indicated it had opened it before and allowed me access.

But, apart from the access rights issue, this lead me to believe Bard was using people's Drive files to train its LLM! Even if you've marked a file as open to anyone with the link, I'm sure you weren't expecting that.

Also interesting is that it found the doc not by the file name but by the title of the doc inside the file.

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#Stanford Computation Center org chart, 1968. From Stanford Computation Center Users Manual, 1968: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UtVisFoGSsEQJxxH8uMDu3XC0PVt8zhJ/view?usp=sharing

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@stuartmarks @aka_pugs I also took a db class from Weiderhold in the 80s. Didn't realize he had passed.

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@DemocracySpot Yes! Photographed often by Bill Cunningham.

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Does this qualify for the #quirkyopinions hashtag?

Taken at the San Carlos, CA public library (in the Bay Area). I've always joked that San Carlos is the Dallas of the Peninsula.

I highlighted a couple of contradictory "opinions," but find the #jan6th sticker the most egregious. (Admittedly, it's a close call.)

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@Amr1ta Thank you!

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