So uncouth and absurd that it can only be believed that Nature was motivated by spite or mockery in bringing him into the world at all. (Castiglione)
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Calvus Virginicus retweeted
Okay I give up: A p-value really is the probability the null is true. We lost this game, statisticians. Every one of you gave it your best, and I will always be proud of you. But the scientists cannot be defeated by conventional means. GG
ALT Screenshot from a youtube science video, showing caption that defines a p-value of "3-sigma": "something has a 1 in 400 chance of just being randomness in your data"
I put a Large Language Model to work on a question that's been bothering people for 70 years. #Tolkien idiosophy.com/2023/06/robots…
Calvus Virginicus retweeted
New Post: Introducing C.S. Lewis' Unfinished Teenage Novel "The Quest of Bleheris" apilgriminnarnia.com/2023/05… via @BrentonDana #CSLewis
A prediction by Owen Barfield that came more than true
idiosophy.com/2023/05/owen-b…
To all the people whose blogs I’ve traditionally tweeted: I’m promoting them on Mastodon now. I don’t yet have good stats on how many viewers that generates. Let me know if you do!
An echo across the centuries, via skunk #OldEnglish
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New post about that nasty line in “The Battle of the Pelennor Fields” #Tolkien
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Calvus Virginicus retweeted
Février 1943. La Gestapo tue son mari, chef de réseau. A elle de veiller seule, et enceinte, sur leur fille de 3 ans. Mais à d'autres le choix de la sécurité ! Car il y a tous ces autres enfants. Juifs. Qu'elle accepte de cacher. Une centaine lui devront la vie. Yvonne Roques.
OK, hear me out: Perelandra theme park. #CSLewis
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Calvus Virginicus retweeted
ALT An erasure of the original post that reads: Is not poetry a way to destroy God—and then call the leftover a new pure me
Calvus Virginicus retweeted
The Boxing of Cats is a difficult matter,
It can't happen only upon Boxing Day.
You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
But listen: each cat needs its own box for play.
Calvus Virginicus retweeted
*before chatgpt*
me to journalists: hope you know how to code LMAO!!!
*after chatgpt*
me to journalists: hope you know how to write crisp, clear text that expresses the intricate nuances of a complicated problem LMAO!!!...oh wait...
Calvus Virginicus retweeted
Fascinating. The rise of AI has me thinking so much about Tolkien and the machine. In case you're interested: linkedin.com/pulse/art-vs-ma…
Calvus Virginicus retweeted
“It Was Not in Vain That The Young Hobbits Came With Us.” Gandalf Speaks of The Fall and Redemption of Boromir. stephencwinter.com/2023/04/1…
Owen Barfield taught us how to think about #ChatGPT a hundred years ago
idiosophy.com/2023/04/poetic…
Calvus Virginicus retweeted
Jupiter dementat quos vult perdere…
Florida to join 25 other states in allowing permitless carry of concealed guns trib.al/bQwhUTL
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“Gandalf! Beyond all Hope You Return to Us in Our Need!” stephencwinter.com/2023/03/2…
Jackson, Grant, and Teddy are fairly realistic portraits.
Do it like #Tolkien did — publish the story first, then spend the next two decades building the world
How do you world-build without losing your reader?
This May with Julian Barr, learn techniques on the scene level to embed world-building into your narrative without bogging the reader down in exposition.
Register by April 1! blackberry.signumuniversity.…
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