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l33tminion) wrote2022-12-04 07:33 pm
l33tminion) wrote2022-12-04 07:33 pm
An Obscure Flicker
Thanksgiving holiday was beautiful if brief. Was great seeing my family, especially my baby nephew, Simon, who turned one on Thanksgiving day. There were flight delays in both directions, but nothing too painful. I got a date night out with Julie, which was nice.
DeepMind released a Stratego AI that does extremely well on games of partially hidden information. OpenAI released a large language model trained to do natural language response and creative writing tasks that would have seemed completely unbelievable for computers to manage a decade (maybe even just a few years) ago.
This week was very busy and next week looks to be tiring, too. I hurt my shoulder out of the blue last Thursday (literally tweaked a muscle just raising my arm without any load, like my shoulder just freaked out and decided to injure itself for no reason). It's not so bad now and getting gradually better, but it's the sort of injury that's always most aggravating when I'm trying to sleep.
Erica went to a friend's birthday yesterday. Today, Julie went out with Erica, and I went to the movies to see The Menu (plus the usual laundry etc.).
Still playing a lot of Arena with the latest new set, The Brother's War. Mostly been playing this deck, which unlike most of my decks is brewed from scratch instead of flagrantly net-decked. It's fun.
DeepMind released a Stratego AI that does extremely well on games of partially hidden information. OpenAI released a large language model trained to do natural language response and creative writing tasks that would have seemed completely unbelievable for computers to manage a decade (maybe even just a few years) ago.
This week was very busy and next week looks to be tiring, too. I hurt my shoulder out of the blue last Thursday (literally tweaked a muscle just raising my arm without any load, like my shoulder just freaked out and decided to injure itself for no reason). It's not so bad now and getting gradually better, but it's the sort of injury that's always most aggravating when I'm trying to sleep.
Erica went to a friend's birthday yesterday. Today, Julie went out with Erica, and I went to the movies to see The Menu (plus the usual laundry etc.).
Still playing a lot of Arena with the latest new set, The Brother's War. Mostly been playing this deck, which unlike most of my decks is brewed from scratch instead of flagrantly net-decked. It's fun.