A couple weeks ago, I ended up on an unexpected last-minute trip to Dublin, Ireland (my client literally emailed me on Thursday evening to say “hey, can you be at the airport on Sunday?”). On the way back from Dublin, I spent a week or so in London visiting Eunice, my lovely co-author.

Our novel London Under Veil, about a young British infosec ( Read more... )

I have a number of...um, fairly ambitious projects I’m working on right now that I’ve hit roadblocks on. Since the Internet is a marvel of modern technological accomplishment that allows instantaneous access to not only the entirety of human knowledge but also domain experts in every conceivable field of human endeavor, I’m throwing out a request ( Read more... )

A few months back, Elon Musk, the right-wing owner of Twitter and Grok, his pet Generative AI project, posted something I wrote on his Twitter feed, with the caption "This is the quality of humor we want from Grok."

He even had it pinned to his profile for a short while.


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Her name was Wendy.

I met her my first year of university in Sarasota, Florida, at a tiny college that is now at war with Ron Desantis called New College. It wasn't my first year of uni-I’d been to two other universities by that point already, and would ultimately end up getting my degree from yet another-but it was my first year there.

She played ( Read more... )

Only a few days out from the end of 2021, and man, what a ride. I don't usually do restrospective years-in-review, but this year...fuck me sideways.

I'm not saying it's been a bad year, mind. On the contrary, this has been the single most productive year of my life, creatively speaking. My co-author Eunice Hung and I wrote, not one, not two, but ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot about machine learning lately. Take a look at these images:


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2020 has been a bit shit, no question about it. However, it's also been the most creative year of my entire life, in no small measure because I've been spending all my time at home away from people.

I'm pleased to announce that one of the many projects I've been working on, a new novel with the delightful Eunice Hung, is now coming to fruition ( Read more... )