#medievalyork #blender3d #unity3d #mysteryplay #design
My pageant wagons move! But the script needs work.
Yesterday’s progress: pageant wagons lined up on Toft Green. #medievalyork #unity3d #mysteryplays
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ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her
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Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous
When an author uses AI for “polishing” a draft, they are not seeing improvement; they are witnessing semantic ablation. The AI identifies high-entropy clusters – the precise points where unique insights and “blood” reside – and systematically replaces them with the most probable, generic token sequences. What began as a jagged, precise Romanesque structure of…
Expecting the usual theatrical adventure from @quantumtheatre
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Floating video windows depict the performances in my in-progress #unity3d simulation of a massive 18+ hr medieval theater pageant. #medievalyork #corpuschristi #yorkcycle
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Martin Luther King event at SHU.
Redefining the Dream: Justice, Faith and the Call to Change Within
The vital importance of cucumber sandwiches at the provost’s afternoon tea.
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A LiDAR map reveals #medievalyork fortifications that Speed captured in his stylized but surprisingly accurate 17C map. This weekend I did a rough #blender3d model of Clifford’s Tower.
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Not attempting historical accuracy but still had to learn a heck of a lot to model the steering mechanism for a #medievalyork #mysteryplay pageant wagon. #blender3d #blender3dart
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Like digging ‘your own professional grave’: The translators grappling with losing work to AI
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Just reminding myself that these moments do and will exist. I’ve evaluated every student submission in my queue.
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10 years later it’s so much worse.
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Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape: pop-up book by Kelli Anderson
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News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
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The daughter introduced me to this wonderful Martin Freeman comedy. Kind of like School of Rock, but with an elementary school Christmas play. Painfully funny. The kids were so authentic.
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I didn’t ask for the AI icon on my Kindle app. I can’t turn it off.
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Gil Gerard (1943-2025)
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