Sentient Tanks Writing About Sentient Tanks The time is near. I fed OpenAI's GPT-3 model a modified version of the following wonderful quote from the late Jim Baen, writing to BOLO author Keith Laumer: I said only somewhat coherently over the phone, this time I would like something that hints
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First use of "Captain Obvious"? The first use I could find of "Captain Obvious" in Google Books was in a 1926 book about the activities of the U.S. Army's 302d Gas Regiment. It's one of a long list of joke nicknames for the jolly fellows in this unit,
Oppression to emancipation: British-Indian author launches gripping debut novel, “The Granddaughter Project” London - International publishing house Nimble Books LLC today announced the debut novel of Indian-British author and world peace advocate Shaheen Chishti, entitled “The Granddaughter Project”. A modern visionary and one of the newest authors of British-Indian heritage, Shaheen Chishti has written a deeply
Non-fungibletokens (NFTs) for Book Publishing #NFTs for book #publishing? I just created my first #nonfungibletoken, joining the latest fad or craze in cryptocurrency. The downloadable product is distributed via the blockchain and can only be owned by one (1) person. In this case, it is a "trading card" about
Will a Senator Die This Year? I have been reading a lot of half-assed articles about the possibility that a Senator will die during this Congress, triggering a switch in party control, so I thought I'd run the real numbers. This simple spreadsheet combines the ages of all current Senators
Amazon URIs for THE GRANDDAUGHTER PROJECT Universal link for Kindle: getbook.at/granddaughterproject Hardcover Paperback Kindle ca de es fr it jp mx nl uk us
Announcing Leo Bloom, sales analysis software Now available! Powerful book analysis software for authors and publishers. Named in honor of Leo Bloom, the accountant played by Gene Wilder in the classic Mel Brooks film THE PRODUCERS.
Where to buy THE GRANDDAUGHTER PROJECT by Shaheen Chishti THE GRANDDAUGHTER PROJECT will be distributed both by Ingram, the largest U.S. distributor (hardcover) and Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (paperback and Kindle formats). Accordingly, it will be available from almost all online bookstores. coming soon: "Talk With the Book" via Nimble AIThe items
Nimitz won at Midway with this Amazon.com productivity trick (I originally published this on LinkedIn, 2015) Amazon.com has a famous practice of making its meeting time more productive by having executives sit in a room together and begin the meeting by reading detailed six-page narratives. (See http://research.gigaom.com/2013/10/
getting Spinningup by OpenAI to run on Mac Big Sur OpenAI’s spinningup is an exemplary educational resource produced by OpenAI that makes it easier to learn about deep reinforcement learning (deep RL). It’s very thorough and comprehensive; it has well written explanations of major concepts & algorithms and links to all the
Nimble AI Release 1.1.0-Michener Release 1.1.0-Michener Replaces email delivery of "Analyze This Document" with https download. There is a maximum 120 second for report creation before timeout. In future I will implement a proper asynchronous solution, and email delivery will return as an option. Fixes bug
Coming soon: a helpful AI Muse from Nimble Books Whenever you start a writing project, ask the Nimble AI for help! Coming soon...
Two books about space warfare I'm excited to announce that Nimble Books has signed a two-book contract with space warfare expert Paul Szymanski. This is a big milestone towards my vision of helping build the publishing ecosystem around the military history of space. FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR OUTER SPACE WARFARE
A prospectus for long-form completions Immersive deep reading of high-quality books must rank among the most beneficial and broadly distributed technologies ever invented (see inter alia McLuhan, 1962; McDermott, 2006; Boorstin, 1992; UNESCO 2019). Yet this vital experience remains tightly constrained by scarcity: of classics, of representation, of accessibility,
Python Royalty Accounting & Sales Analysis Software for Kindle Direct Publishing and LSI/Ingram This year I wrote a Python program to handle my sales analysis and royalty accounting needs. It takes Kindle Direct and Lightning Source report files and converts them into Pandas
Where you can buy RAGING TWENTIES by Pepe Escobar RAGING TWENTIES is distributed both by Ingram, the largest U.S. distributor (hardcover) and Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (paperback and Kindle formats). Accordingly, it is available from almost all online bookstores. The Wikipedia ISBN pages for the paperback and hardcover provides a super comprehensive
Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism in the Era of COVID-19 During my fifteen years as a publisher I am proud to have published books from every part of the political spectrum, left, right, and center. My personal politics are those of a Joe Manchin Democrat (with a generous dash of pigheaded contrarianism) but I
Images are back! Images were not working for a while because of a problem with the way I had set up SSL / https. Now they are back! Yay!
DNS migration in process Moving from Ghost Pro to self-hosted Ghost. If anything seems wrong, shoot me an email at wfz at nimblebooks.com.
new from Nimble: the first book published using OpenAI's GPT-3 Topline My company Nimble Books today published the first book written using OpenAI's GPT-3 generative text engine. This was a big milestone for me personally as I have been exploring algorithmic publishing for most of the last decade. For more info, see: Eccentric Dictionaries:
The President's Daily Brief Fifty Years Ago series #PDB50 launches today Over the years, the Central Intelligence Agency has released redacted versions of every President's Daily Brief from 1961 to 1977. They are, of course, available via the CIA website, but there are thousands of PDFs and tens of thousands of pages, so there's a
Six new titles; how to publish with Nimble; Style Guide; and faster royalty statements in future New from Nimble Books: PIECES OF HISTORY: ARTIFACTS OF THE PT BOAT NAVY in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle. MTBSTC: MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT SQUADRON TRAINING CENTER first time in paperback -- much more affordable! THE GREAT SPACE FORCE DEBATE: A WAY FORWARD FROM THE PAST?
Interview with John Cinnamon, an early voice for Space Force Colonel John D. Cinnamon was an early advocate for an independent Space Force, an argument he articulated in a 2012 master's thesis at the Naval Postgraduate Warfare school just republished by Nimble Books as part of my effort to accelerate the growth of the
Lightning Source to Pandas Something different today -- a spinoff of some work I've been doing to analyze my sales statistics and prioritize new publications. This script imports publisher sales data files from Lightning Source, Inc. into a Pandas dataframe. Lightning Source is the largest US print on
