While the vast majority of conventions that I attend are in Texas, there are a few outliers. One of which is Archon, which is officially a St. Louis convention that’s been going on for many decades. The first ones I attended were actually in St. Louis at a hotel near the Gateway Arch on the… Continue reading On the Road to Archon
Category: Writing
Converting an Asteroid into a Space Station
I just ran across a lovely paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12353 where David W. Jensen, Ph.D. describes sending a single rocket probe to a Near Earth Asteroid with a bunch of robots that … twelve years later have converted the asteroid into a massive wheeled space station. I highly recommend downloading the PDF and reading it. What was… Continue reading Converting an Asteroid into a Space Station
Using AI as a Tool
You’re all probably tired of all the AI hype. But, as I’ve been looking at it, I’m quite sure that more and more of the text you read will have increasing amounts of AI input. The world, however, is not coming to an end. People like me, who sell personally created text, will probably be… Continue reading Using AI as a Tool