https://www.newsweek.com/google-quantum-chip-parallel-universes-willow-1999224
Yawn, wake me up when they find that alternate universe with all the airships, and good film adaptations of Georgette Heyer.
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How to Use Claude.ai for Cleaning Up Transcriptions
This article is primarily about the Claude.ai feature called “projects,” but his example project is about using Claude to cleanup the nasty, incoherent speech-to-text output that Word and similar programs spit out. I’ve tested the commands involved in the free version of Claude, and they work reasonably well. I still went back and reworded and expanded a bunch of stuff after I used it, but it was nice having something that would reliably cut out the nonsense words and repetitions and add some kind of punctuation. Here are the commands; just copy and paste into Claude’s chat window, and upload a short document with your latest chunk of dictation. As always with AI, check the company’s privacy and training policies before feeding it anything of a personal or sensitive nature.
Continue reading “How to Use Claude.ai for Cleaning Up Transcriptions”Dan Zeidler Has a Substack
Dan is a writer in a Discord I belong to, who writes fantasy and military science fiction. He’s a cool guy who designs his own starships in Blender, worldbuilds his universes a mile deep, and has done Roman-themed historical reenactments. His first substack essay ties in to his interest in history, and deals with the ancient Egyptian game of Senet.
A Belated Happy Fourth of July
So much hustling around this week that I forgot to schedule a post for US Independence Day. So here’s Fred Astaire playing with fireworks:
Song I Heard Today for the First Time, May Or May Not Be Relevant
Weird Wednesday: Men Who Focus On Tsunderes Are Like Women Who Focus On Abs
They’re both looking at the opposite sex and taking a particular trait (a hot-tempered woman; a man with washboard abs) as a sign of mental strength when the temper could just as easily mean arrogance and the abs could just as easily mean vanity.
Or something.
Never Forget: 80th Anniversary of D-Day
Lyrics here: https://www.flashlyrics.com/lyrics/jean-pax-mefret/jour-j-15 The more sober and historical minded videos using this song seemed to be age restricted, so you’re getting the version set to video game cutscenes.
Also, a mass parachute jump was done in honor of the paratroopers:
Happy 113th to Mr. Price and 104th to Sir Christopher Lee
I know there’s nothing lazier than celebrating these gentlemen’s birthday with the clip of them trading insults from the epilogue of House of the Long Shadows (major spoilers for one of the film’s plot twists below), but I’m supposed to be on a writing vacation this week, about which more later. If you want to see the whole film, it’s on ScreenPix as of this writing. It has its moments, but I personally am not a fan of the film overall; too many shots of short guy Desi Arnaz Jr standing halfway up the grand staircase so he can look 6’5″ Sir Christopher or 6’4″ Vincent in the eye, or Desi glaring at 6’ish Peter Cushing for passing too close to him when he’s not standing on his apple box, or, heck, too much shots of Desi flaunting his professional incompetence in the face of people three times his age and a hundred times his talent level…and that’s just in the scenes with the suave publisher played by war hero and forgotten Robin Hood portrayer Richard Todd.
Continue reading “Happy 113th to Mr. Price and 104th to Sir Christopher Lee”Happy Eleventy-first, Mr. Cushing
Interview with him when he was about 73, post-cancer diagnosis, and coming off as very post-Ring Bilbo.
Continue reading “Happy Eleventy-first, Mr. Cushing”Where Did That Come From? The Feisty Girl/Posh Guy Dynamic in Wolf’s Trail
The short version is that I started noodling around with this character dynamic (the Reylo fans would perhaps call it a dyad) when I was first watching Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games. Eventually it would grow into the lead characters from Wolf’s Trail.
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