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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Mistake-Makers, Unite!

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Another r eminder to join the   Mistake-makers’ club  !  Thinking back of mishaps in my family, it strikes me that the most dangerous place ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Coping with Change in Documentary-World

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This might be mildly amusing ...       When in 2003 I started doing commentaries for History Channel and National Geographic Channel, I grea...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Luckier Still: More recollections of the writing life

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Continuing the previous post , thinking of memorable times on the job and while researching a story: During an expediter run on a constructi...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

Lucky, Lucky: The joys of feature writing

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These are frustrating times for nonfiction writers, between AI competition and advertising's massive shift from print to search engines,...
Saturday, December 3, 2022

OpenAI's Chatbot on Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin"

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  I'm a fan of this classic silent  movie , and wondered what the computer banks behind OpenAI might say about it. My prompt to the Chat...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

Writers' Walls

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What do writers hang on their walls? Here are two items on my office wall, along a profile of our cat, who looks like he's checking for ...
Friday, November 4, 2022

More experiments with DALL-E-2: Outpainting

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This gives an idea of how the Outpainting tool can add a lot to the AI's initial square image.  The original, in the center, was from my...
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