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Ethan Hawksley

by Ethan Hawksley on hawksley.devWebsite

Ethan Hawksley is a British computer science student at the University of Warwick and author of The Second Maintainer. Explore his projects and blog.

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Bliki: LLM Voice

by Martin Fowler on martinfowler.comArticle

Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading the output of an LLM. I can't necessarily define why, although there are the common tells (it's not the em-dashes, it's the load-bearing tapestries). As I do this my desire to read on atrophies, sometimes to the point of…

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Author Journey: Four Years After Twitter

by Jackson on inkican.comArticle

Wow – another milestone in my author journey – four years without Twitter. I’ve been thinking about this for about A week: what do I want to say about my author journey, about Twitter., about you? When it comes to simple decisions like ‘What platform talk to people on,’ little things mean a lot.…

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“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess

by The Public Domain Review on publicdomainreview.orgArticle

Accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure her young suitor into a bigamous marriage, Mary Carleton was the subject of dozens of pamphlets and broadsides published in the mid-17th century, including by Carleton herself. Investigating the fraudster’s life, Laura Kolb finds a self-fashioning figure…

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