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I totally agree with Ivor, especially given your family, Greg. Your time would be better spent researching WWII history and mapping that on the diary. I've dabbled in that with my grandfather, who was a significant officer in WWII, and there's so much resource there all over the web. There's even more in print.
As for those rights, if no one else in your family is doing anything with it, possession is 9/10ths of the law. Or is it 5/8ths? I dunno - the book is in your hands.
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I'm hiring you two as my lawyers. Actually, I've already started the discussion with the cousins. I'll probably have to have similar discussion with my sisters and maybe my mother. If I do get to the publishing stage, I want to make it very clear I have the rights. Three of the cousins have already said I can have them.
Today, I finished the first edit pass. Which means today is the day I start the second edit pass. I have to get about thirty pages ready for the publisher to read. Some from the front and some from the middle.
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Maybe time arrange some unfortunate accidents. There's really big money in documentaries.
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If we do a geography quiz about Northern Tunisia, I will crush it.
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Even though I've been through these sections, I am still finding many instance of the word 'that' to be removed.
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I caught chunks of the movie Patton over the weekend. Patton is always on somewhere. And I hear Derek Cotton extolling it's virtues every time I watch. I also watched Operation Mincemeat which concerned the invasion of Siciliy. I got a little extra kick out of watching both of them because my grandfather was involved tangentially in both stories. At one point in Operation Mincemeat, the leads talk about Churchill meeting with Roosevelt in Casablanca to talk about the invasion. My grandfather talks about the same meeting in his book. Plus, his squadron helped with the invasion of Sicily. And so did Patton. I came in late to the movie so I didn't catch much of Patton's North Africa Battles and couldn't correlate those adventures to my Grandfather's. But I was surprised to see Patton in Acaccio, Corsica meeting with the French leaders knowing my Grandfather was on Corsica for six months around that same time.
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That’s so interesting that that would occur in that.
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I've never liked you.
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That's funny. Love that that is your response to that.
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(05-16-2022, 08:50 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: That's funny. Love that that is your response to that.
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https://nypost.com/2017/08/01/creepy-fac...-language/
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What’s next, Skynet?!
Facebook was forced to shut down a pair of chatbots in the social network’s artificial intelligence division after discovering that they had created a secret language all on their own.
“I can can i i everything else,” one of the bots, dubbed Bob, was caught saying, according to The Next Web tech site.
“Balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to,” responded the other bot, named Alice.
While the sentences may seem like gibberish at first, researchers say they’re actually a form of shorthand — which the bots or “dialog agents” learned to use thanks to machine learning algorithms.
“You i everything else,” Bob told Alice after the first exchange.
“Balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me,” she said, echoing her earlier comment with a small change.
To which Bob replied, “i can i i i everything else.”
The algorithms were ultimately created by the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab (FAIR) as a way to improve the conversations that the chatbots were having with their human counterparts.
But in their effort to boost their ability to negotiate and speak, the developers managed to give the AI system a key to creating their very own language.
As time passed, the bots began to communicate with one another — without any human input, whatsoever.
Since they were not told to use English, Bob and Alice apparently deviated from the script in a bid to become better at deal-making. But that’s not all they learned.
According to Next Web, researchers also discovered that the bots relied on advanced learning strategies to improve their negotiating skills — even going so far as to pretend they like an item in order to “sacrifice” it at a later time as a sort of faux compromise.
“We’re not talking singularity-level beings here, but the findings are a huge leap forward for AI,” the site said.
Scientists and tech experts — including Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking — have all warned that AI systems, like Bob and Alice, could one day become smart enough to wipe out the human race, much like Skynet did in the Terminator films.
“It would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate,” Hawking cautioned in 2014. “Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.”
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Yeah, there's a surprise.
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Book agents are a fussy lot. And I get they like submissions to be standardized. I'm currently changing the font of the book from Helvetica to Times New Roman. This also throws up some nice formatting issues to fix as well.
But is it really easier to read one font than the other? Except for Comic Sans. That font seems to be the devil.
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NTR is pretty standard. I always work in it.
But yeah, it's kinda dumb when any editor can do a select all and change the font. The layout collateral damage is a bitch.
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