joshuadbellin.bsky.social
Writer, reader, teacher. Father of real & pretend people. Not interested in book editing or marketing services, thanks. Find my time-travel thriller MYRIAD, written with my very own OI (organic intelligence), at https://angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/myriad
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Cats are excellent writing partners.
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Thanks! Can't wait to share further info on the agent and the project she'll be subbing.
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Thanks! I'm very excited.
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Thank you!
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Thanks!
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It's at the top of the turtle's shell, to the right of its head. We photocopied the illustration on the box and slipped the relevant portion underneath.
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I'm not getting (or giving) a ton of engagement either, but in my case, that's because of burnout from the other social media platform I was on before I came here. Could be the case with others as well.
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Cool. What's the story about?
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Good to see you here!
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You don't know the half of it.
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Thanks! It was fun.
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Happy belated birthday to your brother!
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Well, Pittsburgh is often referred to as the Paris of the United States.
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Congrats! A very satisfying moment in the journey.
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I sure as hell don't use AI. Why would I when I've got a perfectly good OI (Organic Intelligence) lodged in my skull?
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The Bellin Fungoid Strategy is available for free license to all puzzle-builders. We ask only that you credit the inventor.
Oh, and if you've been doing this for years, please don't tell me. I'm too proud of my invention to know it's not really mine. [6/6]
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Minutes later--and this with a puzzle we'd struggled to build for two straight evenings without making much progress--it was done. [5/6]
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Each time I added a piece to the growth, I checked to see if it might fit somewhere into the completed edges. When I found the fit, I attached that piece then rebuilt the whole structure piece by piece (see Fig. 3). [4/6]
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Noting that two unplaced pieces were almost black, I joined them. Then I kept adding more almost-black pieces until I had an enormous fungoid growth floating in the center of the uncompleted space (see Fig. 2). [3/6]
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Here's how it works. We had finished most of a puzzle but, due to irregular pieces and little color variation, we couldn't fill in the remaining space through the traditional method of attaching pieces to the edges of the completed portion (see Fig. 1, where gray = complete and white = empty). [2/6]
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Sigh. Wish we had that in this country (or even in this city, my workplace, my department...)
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I read this recently. Didn't know whether I would like it or not. It turned out to be one of the most amazing novels I've ever read.
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That's a beautiful quote.
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Sadly, yes. They're saying all the right things about "using AI responsibly," but they're not the ones checking up on the students.
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I've been catching more and more students submitting AI papers. AND my university is encouraging them to do it by making AI tools available for classroom use. How did this become the world we live in?
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They don't look exactly the same, but they're all blurry gray-blue-green. Complicating the process further is the fact that few of the pieces have regular puzzle shapes, so it's difficult to tell which piece fits where (or even if a space accommodates one piece or two).