11+ hour, 25+ min ago   (205+ words) "The optimize part is exactly why I'm doing this," Curtis said. He stepped back, his movements fluid and precise, his gaze locked on the gold eyes of the man who had curated his life. "The 'Jake' layers identified a redundancy…...

16+ hour, 26+ min ago   (795+ words) No dramatic exit, and it wasn't caused by any kind of creative burnout- I didn't make any grand announcement either. I simply stepped away for “a little while, yet it turned out to be longer than I thought,” and then…...

18+ hour, 43+ min ago   (104+ words) More than that, the “traditional” writer never existed in the first place. “But Stephanie,” you say, “what about those writers who use the old-style formats, formal writing, those who don’t break the rules? Aren’t they ‘traditional’ writers?” At least, they…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (897+ words) On September 7, Tomato released new rules. I was lurking in several writers’ groups. Messages came one after another. Some posted screenshots. Some cursed. Some said, “I’m done writing.” I checked my own dashboard. August earnings: 100 yuan. Around Chinese New Year,…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (112+ words) Jaynes, J. (1976) The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Kramer, S.N. (1963) The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Kramer, S.N. (1972) The Babel of Tongues: A Sumerian Version. Journal of the American…...

4+ day, 21+ min ago   (468+ words) At 11:07 p.m. last Tuesday, I pasted a 10,000-word brief into my writing tool and hit go. Half an hour later, a red bar appeared: quota almost gone. I scrolled the draft. Correct. Boring. I deleted a sentence. Typed it again. Deleted…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1100+ words) There is a curious pattern in technological history. The experience of using it often becomes simpler. Behind one button may sit thousands of operations. Behind a clean interface may be an elaborate technical architecture. A compact device may perform tasks…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1024+ words) The model is available to all ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users, including free users. Four changes matter: speed, edit accuracy, input methods, and two API models. Speed is only part of the release. Edit accuracy is the main change....

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (422+ words) I'm putting out my bi-monthly challenge late this time, mostly because I've been sick for over two weeks now and also because I just started teaching again, so a lot of work and responsibilities on these shoulders. But I wanted…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (968+ words) You are not an outlier. IDC's Cloud Pulse 4Q 2023 survey found that close to half of cloud buyers spent more on cloud than they expected in 2023, and 59% expected the same overrun the following year. The direction of travel has shifted too....