It’s hard to say when the dreams started. I don’t keep track of my dreams, I don’t use a dream journal or anything, and by the time I noticed it felt like it had been going on for quite some time. But alright, let’s say the first time it really…

| 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | Melinda threw the clipboard back at Zack. “You expect me to buy this horseshit?” She stormed passed him and through the…

I slouch deep in my seat. Patterns of red, gold and blue play over my left iris — my right eye remains closed. I sit up again, and watch the spectral body in front of me shimmer to a more muted blue-green web. …

Before you kill it, you should know what it is — Cyberpunk began dominated by science fiction writers. Pat Cadigan, Tom Maddox, Bruce Sterling, and of course William Gibson — these people wrote for SF mags, published novels, and generally put out genre fic as a way to make a living. These people, like most genre authors, were STEMtards, and they…

Mac watched her eyes carefully. He’d never understood what “shining” really meant, unless it referred to an increase of lacrimal fluid buildup in the eyes due to intense emotion. How else could eyes shine? Her eyes shone with excitement, he would read in a book, and then drive himself crazy…

hey ? sorry lol saw you were in the asexual community and thought maybe we could be friends? my name is Vernon angela id love to have more ace friends im actually more aromantic tho please dont call me a poser haha i would never that’s totally valid imo i’m not interested…

Footsteps. Buzzer. Metal clashing on metal. “Hey, Sam.” A rusty hinge. I look up. “Mindy? Is that you?” She smiles at me, blandly. “Yeah, it’s me.” Flanked by four men, security uniforms, batons out. “I’m transferring you.” “You? but, you’re-” the guards hustle me to my feet, cutting our conversation…

Matthias checked his watch. 11:48. He was going to make it. He put on his plastic jacket, and took a pull of oxygen from his pen before shoving it in his pocket. The door opened with a magnetic ‘pop’, and he slid out quickly, shutting it before any dust could…

Reinforcement Learning (RL) follows a simple premise: there is a world, which you can sense and interact with, and a measure of goodness or badness which you can influence through your actions. Everything else is variations on trial and error. The actual algorithms are intuitive and often provably optimal, given…