This is another take on  book title brainstorming – in this case, Nimble AI begins with a short description of the book: Founder of the GPT-3 Society, Marc Strassman, takes an imaginary AI named Sybil on a journey through multiple futures.After a little post-processing

A crucial activity for any author or publisher is coming up with a fully satisfactory title and subtitle for the next book.  Over at Nimble AI, I recently did some experimenting with several different approaches for using OpenAI's to generate possible book titles.  The

Alphabetical order, as a convenience. 2Cents: 2Cents is building an Ethereum protocol for communities, basically bringing web3 dynamics to users wanting to create a Reddit-like community, turning active members into “owners” of the community.VC Bot: 2Cents is building an Ethereum protocol for communities,

I asked OpenAI's GPT-3 model to weigh in on the companies that presented at Y Combinator's Summer 2021 Demo Day, as summarized in these two helpful articles on Day 1 and Day 2 from TechCrunch.  A word of warning for those who are unfamiliar

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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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,

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

#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

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

Universal link for Kindle: getbook.at/granddaughterproject Hardcover Paperback Kindle ca de es fr it jp mx nl uk us

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

(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/

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

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

Whenever you start a writing project, ask the Nimble AI for help! Coming soon...

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

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

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

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Moving from Ghost Pro to self-hosted Ghost.  If anything seems wrong, shoot me an email at wfz at nimblebooks.com.

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: