Can*Con, a Canadian literary science fiction convention, is having a virtual event all day April 20th. Literary #agents, #editors, #writing workshops and all that sort of good stuff. There will also be personal chats, etc. on Discord.
Experts Said for Weeks That Trump Might Get Bonded By Kremlin Allies.
Now It Appears It’s Happening
—Causing a National Security Crisis
—So Why Is Media So Silent About the Greenberg Family?
The biggest national security crisis since the Trump administration is being ignored by media
—which instead hails a historically suspicious, still unapproved bond proposal by Trump as a legal victory.
New research into old business articles reveal that #Evan#Greenberg’s ACE Insurance, which became #Chubb in 2016,
“does business” with his onetime Russian-bank-owning father’s Russia investment vehicle Starr International.
Greenberg’s father
—and longtime boss at AIG
—Maurice Greenberg, is a Vladimir #Putin business associate who has also associated, as discussed in detail below, with Russian #spies, other Kremlin #agents, and the 2016 #Trump presidential campaign.
If these entanglements continue to exist in 2024, it is highly likely that in fact Evan Greenberg’s company’s business interests are entwined, through his still-living father, with Russian government-owned entities."
Re-added/ported more agent behavior building blocks today, incl. path following and path attraction (both for open/closed geometries). In total there're now 7 freely combinable behaviors, each weighted and so usable as soft/hard constraint.
Here's an example of path following (here a Hilbert curve) and separation only...
Another example using path attraction (hexagon), dynamic targets/attractors (here changing every N frames) and a mix of the usual flocking sub-behavior ingredients: separation, alignment, cohesion
Boids now with modular behavior system, incl. newly added field-based 3-sensor Braitenberg vehicle steering behavior. In this case the field is an SDF (via https://thi.ng/geom-sdf), which is used as obstacle map with soft boundary. I'm amazed how well (and without any further help) the lil' buggers are managing to escape these concave corners...
...and now with animated obstacle SDFs working as well (aside from the major https://thi.ng/boids changes, some related useful updates to https://thi.ng/geom-sdf are forthcoming too)
Been debugging boids & behavior combinations all evening! Happy to say, I think all force contributions are fixed now (classic off-by-one error was leading to an initially subtle but increasingly obvious directional bias), and I can focus again on experimenting with some new amazing emergent behaviors... Aside from that, maybe this also qualifies for #Genuary2024 (Day 1: Particles)?!
Btw. This is just a variation of this #ThingUmbrella example project:
Note to ADHD brain: Get your act together and finish work on S-TRACE, one of maaany unfinished projects started last year... A mini thread of some WIPs...
Many years ago, I attended a conference on "software #agents" organized by #academics, with a focus on Python implementation.
Their pitch was basically "see, your agent collects information and from that decides where it should go next. Then it gets pickled and sent to those destinations, which unpickle it..."
Besides the obvious, gaping #security#hole this represents, it also fundamentally misunderstood pickle. You can't unpickle an instance if you don't have the class's #code.
Last week, I've created an "awesome repository" that lists all the GPTs related to cybersecurity. Take a look – the list is continuously growing and there are already many use cases! Feel free to add yours 👇#gpt#infosec#Agents
Kommer AI-agenter hjälpa eller stjälpa oss? Jag skrev en personlig tillbakablick över min egen tankeprocess om agenter från 2010 och framåt, och vad den senaste tidens utveckling för med sig. En resa från Glasgow, till Hollywood och hem till Göteborg igen. :)
ANOTHER bogus agency alert: The Literary Firm https://theliteraryfirm.com/ False claims of books repped, fake "agents" whose bios have been plagiarized from real agents, a web domain just 97 days old. Plus out-of-the-blue solicitations claiming Big 5 publisher interest, which is not how real agents work #WriterBeware#WritingCommunity#PublishingScams#Agents
Another fake agency alert: Alfred West Literary. False claims about repped books (especially since web domain is just 25 days old), plagiarized content, false claims of association with (real) "key people" in publishing. Currently soliciting authors (which of course real agents don't do) #WriterBeware#WritingCommunity#Agents#Publishinghttps://www.alfredwest.us/
Russian agent Boris Epshteyn to be questioned for 2nd day by special counsel: Sources So that likely means he's being interviewed to avoid a grand jury appearance. It almost seems like he's doing a "Queen for a Day" interview.
I'm going to watch all the usual suspects closely. See who goes dark. With the grand jury seeming like it's getting close to the end of the line, I'm not going to be surprised if they charge soon. Smith may have gone to to the interview to assess how
Epshteyn retroactively claimed he was criminal suspect donald's lawyer when he was a campaign advisor. Back date the docs you criminal.
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Cocaine Jr has gone quiet today after a long Tweet storm of multiple posts daily. He was my contemporaneous pick for who accompanied Boris Epshteyn to Prague. The Steele dossier assumed it was Michael Cohen. I thought it was Epshteyn and that Don Jr would have accompanied him.
Cocaine jr. speaks Czech. My guess is that they have a ton of intelligence on Epshteyn and I'm also guessing that whatever #45 was planning to do with the stolen top secrets it involved the Russians and Boris got involved. If so, he's looking at life for espionage.
That would get him to take an invitation to save himself by telling Jack all his darkest secrets.
Don Jr. deserves watching. I think they got his mother who was getting talky. Epshteyn may be able to dance through the rain drops but Don Jr. going through a Cocaine withdrawal possibly in the lock up could be too unpredictable for the Kremlin to take a chance.