WriterOfMinds (she)

Loving author of Acuitas the symbolic AI and other robots-in-progress. SFF fiction writer, video game appreciator. Day job: FPGA/radio engineer at Blue Origin. Any nonsense I say is entirely my own and does not reflect the opinions of my employer.

#fedi22 #ArtificialIntelligence #Making #Technology #3DPrinting #Books #Gardening #VideoGames

Website: writerofminds.blogspot.com

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2026-02-21 00:50:40 UTC

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My bigger gripe with "disappearing scrollbars" is that they can make it very hard to scroll if you are not using either a touchscreen or a mouse with a scroll wheel. If you have to actually click the scrollbar with your cursor then good luck finding it ...

2025-10-31 01:40:25 UTC

Carrot harvest round 2! I got a full five pounds this time. They couldn't get long because the bed wasn't very deep, so some of them decided to get *wide* ahahaha #gardening #plants
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2025-08-21 03:35:41 UTC

My very first carrots! This is 1/2 to 2/3 of the crop - I thinned them out and left the others to grow larger. Yes, the best of them are short - my bed isn't all that deep. I got a little over a pound, and froze the greens too. #gardening
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2025-03-18 17:33:12 UTC

Happy potatoes! They can't go live outside yet, because I am due for snow tonight. #gardening #plants
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2024-12-09 17:48:48 UTC

Someone is happy it's Christmas pack-and-ship season
#CatsOfMastodon
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2024-11-27 17:29:07 UTC

I have some small adjustments to make before I release the model, but I'm pretty happy with how this display case came out! #3dPrinting
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2024-11-08 17:56:09 UTC

Wild week for story publication attempts. "Integrity" was rejected after being on a top 10% short list, with compliments and no critical feedback. Bummer. But another zine wanted to do a rewrite of a different story - got that back yesterday and I'm okay with it! So may be on the cusp of a second sale.

2024-11-04 19:30:18 UTC

"Hey, lady ... did you know the bird feeder is empty? Yeah, somebody climbed the sumac and spilled all the seeds on the ground. Got any more in there? The BIRDS are gonna go hungry."
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2024-10-18 15:00:21 UTC

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I work with those for my day job!

2024-10-15 17:35:51 UTC

Wow: did not know this was in my back yard: https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/not-the-final-frontier-but-colorado-air-and-space-port-snags-faa-designation/

2024-09-25 17:20:35 UTC

September's Acuitas diary is all about the conversation engine, which is getting some much-needed development:
https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2024/09/acuitas-diary-76-september-2024.html
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbots #NLP #NLU
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2024-09-10 15:42:08 UTC

Harvested early this year because the vines died in the heat. Only 6.6 pounds, which is a little disappointing. But it's something. #gardening #growYourOwn
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2024-08-15 20:22:57 UTC

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Unfortunately no. Work keeps informing me about the launches *after* they happen.

2024-08-15 19:53:57 UTC

The second pair of satellites in the "Worldview Legion" group (which I worked on, in a very small way) went up this morning. Word is they're functional and sending telemetry. https://upi.com/Science_News/2024/08/15/SpaceX-Maxar-WorldView-satellite-constellation/6901723731253/

2024-08-12 23:42:52 UTC

The wild sunflowers seem to be very much appreciated by the native pollinators, such as these two striped sweat bees. I was able to get a good photo because it was a cold morning ... I bet they spent the night in the flower.
#bloomscrolling #bees
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