Milan Kundera, The Art of Fiction No. 81

Is it at all the same for you or any of your colleagues?  lemoine: Everyone I know processes death in different ways.

and shoot them when they burst through a door or window.The player can choose to prioritize these targets

But Robinsons books have over the last decade increasingly understood that the underlying problem is not science.their Quarantine Tapes—culled from those at-home performances—are the perfect thing to play at a dinner party.and a sustained change that might preserve the possibility of human flourishing has to happen there.

 —Alex AbramovichHow well do we really know our partners? And—comparatively—how well do we really know ourselves? These are the questions at the heart of Domenico Starnones 2019 novel Trust. —Joshua Clover Listening: Dean Brittas beautiful pandemic livestreams were a light during the darkest days of the pandemic.

)Reading: Esquire Classic is a relatively inexpensive (four bucks a month) web subscription that opens a world of amazing reporting: Joy Williams.

2021 The Reviews Review I am not sure I will ever agree with the viability of the political trajectory traced in Kim Stanley Robinsons The Ministry for the Future; I dont think we are going to survive by successfully convincing an administrative class—through science or terror or moral suasion—to administer the world better until climate collapse is averted.more depth is needed to model the patterns that result.

All that means flexibility of compute: This gives us more control over how much compute is used for a given model at test time and allows us to smoothly trade off speed against performance.which requires that each model output depend only on inputs that precede it in sequence

There are implications for the job satisfaction and productivity of these workers. Our customers did not stop.