Oh that is interesting, and especially looking back at that very difficult period of time - which keeps reverberating, even though chronologically it's way in the past.

Looking forward to reading!

Whoa didn't know you have a new book out!

E.g. in City of Gangsters we explicitly wanted to be able to produce stories of illicit business deals but also betreyal and revenge, and this drove systems design.

Each game will have its own stories of course! But starting with stories is a powerful technique.

As game devs were used to thinking of player experience and flow, and then back solving for systems and mechanics.

Similarly with social sims, but starting with stories (experienced first hand), and then back solving for systems that can generate those.

Interesting that they released it to the public, and not just to partners

That is amazing news. Congratulations to the whole team!

I have a running theory that the killer app for LLMs is going to be as translators from ambiguous human language to all sorts of formal systems.

E.g. getting an LLM to produce good Prolog code sounds maybe viable?

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

You and me both!

Except for me that was the last paper in grad school :)

Thanks for the reco - it looks really interesting!

Oh yeah that is unexpected!

Yeah, it's a convenient way to get something *kinda like* a fuzzy semantics similarity, but it's definitely not actual semantics, and there's a bunch of non-semantic info mixed in there too (e.g. word morphology).

And now I'm curious if any interesting use cases stand out?

I'm physically in pain reading this article

...and it's such a fantastic, innovative indie visual novel. Ware's quote is right on. Recommended!

And on Saturday I was back at Quimby's buying Book Two because I *had to* learn how this world turns out. :)

(And if you're in Chicago, both Quimby's and Women and Children First have it in stock!)

No better way to celebrate

Top notch biting satire, no notes :)