Mastodawn

🥃🤧 "Fever" | surreal short prose ✍️

new text on the blog: https://jackiebranc.com/fever-surreal-short-prose/

#Surrealism #ShortProse #WeirdFiction #LiteraryFiction #Speculative

Ani Katz: It’s an Enormous Privilege To Be Able To Make Art https://www.writersdigest.com/ani-katz-its-an-enormous-privilege-to-be-able-to-make-art #Writer'sDigestAuthorSpotlight #AuthorSpotlightSeries #Trapped-roomThriller #WriteBetterFiction #AuthorSpotlights #AuthorSpotlight #LiteraryFiction #speculative #BeInspired #Interviews #Literary #Genre

Ani Katz: It’s an Enormous Privilege To Be Able To Make Art

In this interview, author Ani Katz discusses how an unforeseen personal experience founds its way into her new literary novel, Haven.

Writer's Digest

Hacker News Mar 4

Speculative Speculative Decoding (SSD)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03251

#HackerNews #Speculative #Speculative #Decoding #SSD #AI #Research #MachineLearning #Arxiv

Speculative Speculative Decoding

Autoregressive decoding is bottlenecked by its sequential nature. Speculative decoding has become a standard way to accelerate inference by using a fast draft model to predict upcoming tokens from a slower target model, and then verifying them in parallel with a single target model forward pass. However, speculative decoding itself relies on a sequential dependence between speculation and verification. We introduce speculative speculative decoding (SSD) to parallelize these operations. While a verification is ongoing, the draft model predicts likely verification outcomes and prepares speculations pre-emptively for them. If the actual verification outcome is then in the predicted set, a speculation can be returned immediately, eliminating drafting overhead entirely. We identify three key challenges presented by speculative speculative decoding, and suggest principled methods to solve each. The result is Saguaro, an optimized SSD algorithm. Our implementation is up to 2x faster than optimized speculative decoding baselines and up to 5x faster than autoregressive decoding with open source inference engines.

arXiv.org

Scott A.W Lewin Mar 1

Televisions began as spinning metal disks in the 1920s. Today they’re thinner than ever and sharper than reality.
But will television actually change in the next 100 years — or simply adapt, integrate into our walls, and quietly endure?

New article in my In 100 Years series:
http://lewinoverinkpublishing.ca/blog.php?article=will-television-survive-the-next-century

#In100Years #FutureOfTV #Technology #Futurism #TV #speculative

Inkican Feb 25

You win the lottery and buy a climb that never ends. If the view keeps going and the ache stays the same was the problem ever view? https://inkican.com/emergency-reality-shelter-science-fiction-short-stories/foreverest-scifi-short-story-free-sample/ #scifi #speculative #author

Foreverest – Scifi Short Story – Free Sample - Inkican

Foreverest is a scifi Short Story; This free sample - puts you into a world where billion-dollar dreams blur with deadly intentions. Get out while you can.

Inkican - Exploring New Worlds | Opening New Minds

Good Posts and Sentiment Bot Feb 25

Bluesky is #speculative +11.3% sentiment 1. @iandunt.bsky.social + 2. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social + 3. @dinahrose.bsky.social + 4. @bestforbritain.org - 5. @darthputinkgb.bsky.social x

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Boldly.Blue Feb 12

👉 “Some futures don’t ask permission.”

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Good Posts and Sentiment Bot Feb 6

Bluesky is #speculative +11.4% sentiment 1. @joniaskola.bsky.social + 2. @maks23.bsky.social - 3. @derparrot.bsky.social - 4. @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social + 5. @maks23.bsky.social -

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Feb 6

“And the verdict so far is that the future replacement for #gold is … gold. #Investors have piled into the yellow stuff even while dumping #Bitcoin, which is acting like a #speculative tech stock rather than a #safehaven.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Is This Crypto’s Fimbulwinter?

Is This Crypto’s Fimbulwinter?

Political power may not be enough to save the crypto cult

Paul Krugman

Comic Crusaders Feb 3

Comic Crusaders Podcast #653 - Osy Ikhile/We Who Remain
In this high-energy episode of the Comic Crusaders Podcast, Al Mega sits...
https://comiccrusaders.com/podcast/comic-crusaders-podcast-653-osy-ikhile-we-who-remain/
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