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(Loosely inspired by this: Sparkle-Date Me .)

sparkle (n.): the unit of magical potency; devised in 60 Y.H. by Star Sparkle of House Twinkle, whose work with the Royal College in recovering the arcane knowledge lost during the Discordant Era and in laying the groundwork for the modern scientific conception of magic is well known and discussed extensively elsewhere.

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Welcome back readers! It’s JUNE!

Right, I know. Hunter/Hunted isn’t out yet. But I’d plan on it this month. Editing is … well, it’s a process. Both it and Jungle are inching closer toward release … But that’s all that needs to be said there. Right now?

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Bicyclette's Science Fiction contest is ending today. As most of my readers know, it's right up my alley... but my energy level isn't enough for two contests, even while off work.

I should be in the G5 competition which ends on Sunday, however. I really like my story and I hope you will too!

Okay, to simplify things, since I am a visual learner, it helps me. If anyone here is Autistic like myself, you'll understand where I'm coming from.

Think of the wing of a bird as the arm. I'm not joking, that's basically what it is. Minus the hand and all the other ligaments, joints, bones, etc.

Here are some pictures for reference.

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Yesterday I decided to investigate this Chat GPT thing that I now hear so much about. And wow—this technology has really moved on since I last looked at it. We now have an AI engine which, given a simple prompt, will write a story for you in seconds.

This is the first conversation I had with it:

What is antimatter?

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Hello, my friends!
It's been a long time.

I wrote my last story here back in 2014 when I went off to work on my first real novel.

Well, it's been a decade now, and it's taken that long to understand the difference between telling a good story and telling a good story well.

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The new version of chapter 4 is up and I changed the name from 'Post Traumatic' to 'Waking Nightmare' as I think its more fitting.

TLDR: TC is set to begin releasing on October 31st, in just under two weeks, to coincide with the release of the final chapter of The Advocate.

Greetings, everyone!

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To one of my past blog posts, Booster Spice gave the random comment:

Dark Energy is Magic?

I can’t remember the context, but I’m taking it as a prompt for this post.

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“Pinkie?”

“Yes Dashie?”

“Where are we?”

“In the dark.”

“Yes, but where?”

“I don’t know.”

“Twilight?”

Twilight lit up her horn, casting shadows onto the walls of a tunnel.

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The sun is four hundred times further away than the moon. It's diameter is four hundred times larger. This means when viewed from our planet, the two bodies appear the same size. Depending on the time of year, sometimes one is slightly larger, sometimes the other, but they are very closely matched.

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So a creatarded admin banned onlyanorthernsong. ¡Oh hey creatard, I challenge you to show yourself! I shall probably receive a ban. It is worth it. I shall make post about it. I shall probably receive a ban from the anonymous creatard.

Vector

360 degree tour of CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Best watched on a phone or tablet so you can pan by moving your device.

Honestly, the YouTube channel Kurzesagt - In a Nutshell is one of the most interesting channels I'm subbed to. Love the topics they explore and explain. Just love it when they update.

http://www.egu2014.eu/

At a long wooden table outside a gasthaus in the Leopoldstadt district of the Austrian Capital, four friends sat excitedly chatting and drinking beer.

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After completing Rainbooms and Rationality - my exploration of the scientific method as applied to My Little Pony, I decided to rewatch that classic episode Feeling Pinkie Keen, and revisit the controversy it generated. This one is the first episode which shows Twilight Sparkle as a 'scientific' pony – not just a nerdy bibliophile who teaches herself to run races by reading textbooks – but, in her own words,

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Unless you spend all of your time reading fanfiction and never look at the science and technology news, you will have probably picked up that Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic right now. There is no better time to be a top computer science graduate with a PhD in machine learning techniques. Google, Facebook, and other tech giants will sign you up with a huge starting salary, in the expectation that real breakthroughs are imminent, and will lead to algorithms able to directly communicate

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