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WriterOfMinds (she)

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Loving author of Acuitas the symbolic AI and other robots-in-progress. Aspiring fiction writer, video game appreciator. Satellite electronics are my day job.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · Aug 26

Acuitas plays my textual version of Logical Journey of the Zoombinis: Allergic Cliffs! The demo is out! This puzzle showcases induction of cause-and-effect rules. writerofminds.blogspot.com/2025/08/acui...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #chatbot #NLP

Acuitas Diary #87 (August 2025, Allergic Cliffs demo)

Adventures in robotics and AI on a shoestring budget. SFF Fiction and occasional video game appreciation.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 18h

I decided to make some of the "text adventure" games I've been using with Acuitas (specifically, the Zoombinis-inspired ones) publicly available, just in case anyone else finds them interesting as a benchmark. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #chatbots #NLP #SymbolicAI

Zoombinis Text Adventure Games Release

Adventures in robotics and AI on a shoestring budget. SFF Fiction and occasional video game appreciation.

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 3d

FEETS! 🥰

Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 3d

BIG STEPPA

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 3d

Windows also annoys me with the constant mandatory updates and, lately, insertion of ads and clickbait ... I'm open to non-corporate alternatives ... I just wish there were a better one than stinkin' Linux.

WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 3d

Yup. I've used Linux for work, I've used it on my RPi, so it's not like I'm incompetent with it. I just find it *annoying.* The mere fact that it's difficult to use a USB stick to transfer a network driver from a healthy computer when your Linux machine can't get on the internet is a big turn-off.

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Thomas Shahan @tshahan.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful, spooky wings of the "Halloween Pennant" dragonfly (Celithemis eponina) 🎃

seen near water - June, July - NE OK

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 4d

I'd guess the sticking point is that people think spiritual work should only be done by entities that have spiritual lives themselves. What do you think it means for AI to have a spiritual life? I'd say self-formed beliefs and some kind of moral agency are minimum requirements.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 8d

Meat consumption of any kind is speciesist. Animals have less privilege than any human group including BIPOC people. No tradition or ceremony is worth killing fellow sentient beings. So I have no problem with a demand that *everyone* in the climate movement cut out meat!

WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 10d

In my experience, sometimes observing my own reaction to random rolls is a good way to figure out what I want.

WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 12d

We already have animals as sentient non-people ... AI with the faculties to consent to contracts, etc. would seem to need a different category.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 13d

Acuitas' Text Parser can finally (in theory) handle all the grammatical structures in the test sets!
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatbots #NLP #NLU #symbolicAI

Acuitas Diary #88 (September 2025)

Adventures in robotics and AI on a shoestring budget. SFF Fiction and occasional video game appreciation.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 16d

I realize I've been quiet lately. Dealing with a significant life event and haven't felt like saying much. Please enjoy this tiny friend I met in my bathroom. #spider

Closeup of a small mottled-brown crab spider sitting on a white wall. The spider has both forelegs lifted and pulled back.

WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 17d

I recently "broke up" with a friend bc he kept threatening political violence (his threats were non-specific and he claimed they were unserious after the fact, so nothing I could report, but I wouldn't tolerate it). Point being, maybe some dudes are lonely bc they're homicidal, not vice versa.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 26d

Uncooked ramen noodles are the bomb. I eat those without any peer pressure haha

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 27d

I'm just going to state the obvious: selfishness is bad. We should always be putting social pressure on people to be less selfish.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 29d

I suppose that would mean some extra form of advertising included in the stream, which I don't have a problem with.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · Sep 13

When my cat is being dramatic about taking medicine, seeing neighbor cats, or wanting to go in the garage right now, I say "You're okay, tiger bean" in a dorky voice. Now my inner monologue has started saying it to ME when I get worked up about nothing.

It does the dorky voice too. What have I done

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · Sep 11

That's the kind of injury that feels like a personal insult from the universe. So meaningless, and yet so annoying

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · Sep 10

A rollup of all the hydraulics R&D I've been doing over the past few months. Components for future robotics work are looking good! #robotics #hydraulics #3dPrinting

Hydraulic Heaven?

Adventures in robotics and AI on a shoestring budget. SFF Fiction and occasional video game appreciation.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm sorry to hear she's not improving. I'm keeping Celes and you in my prayers.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's been helping me work on Acuitas' text parser. But that is admittedly rather niche.

WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · Sep 9

That was my first attempt, actually. I go into some detail about what I've tried for the software here: writerofminds.blogspot.com/2024/10/atro...

Atronach's Eye 2024

Adventures in robotics and AI on a shoestring budget. SFF Fiction and occasional video game appreciation.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · Sep 8

The main compute consumers would be 'calcOpticalFlowFarneback' and possibly 'moments'. Also it's running on a Raspberry Pi 3A+ ... which I gather has a GPU, but it may be non-standard.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · Sep 8

I went to a bunch of effort to port the eyeball's OpenCV-based software from Python to C++, and got no significant performance improvement! Both versions can only handle about 1 fps. If that's how it's gonna be, I might as well do Python and save myself some grief. #robotics #computerVision #openCV

A 3d-printed "mechanical eyeball" with its case open to show the rolling ball mechanism with the camera inside, and the two motors that operate it, sits on a table. There's a tricolor tabby cat next to the eyeball.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · Sep 5

I think they're technically open, but they're sitting on top of landscaping cloth and rocks. So water can be exchanged, but the potatoes can't grow below the base of the bed.

WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yes, these came out of the raised beds: bsky.app/profile/writ...

WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · Apr 24

Obligatory potato photo. They suffered a little damage from the most recent freeze, but they're way further ahead than they were this time last year, due to being started indoors. #gardening #plants 🌱

A square plastic garden bed rim filled with soil and some leaf mulch, with nine potato plants spaced out inside it. Some have a few brown and withered leaves, but overall the plants are healthy and 6+ inches tall.