> “The only question,” Eve mused aloud, “is whether time travel via the dream roads is call by value or call by reference.”
Now that was a fun ride!
If you liked the #laundryverse, “Season of Skulls” by @cstross is mandatory.

(The quote may be a minor spoiler but it will be used by everyone writing about the book, so I consider it inescapable then and now. It’s not a time travel novel. It just may have a tiny amount and … well, what did you expect? Can’t you just have some fun?)

still running down old blog entries of mine. This (from 2019) is probably fully realizable in the #Laundryverse with 2023 technology. #laundryFiles #fanFiction

[from "Future directions for SCORPION STARE: 2022 Grant Recipients", https://emergent.unpythonic.net/01561426776]
Deep Stare (Wu, Angelov, Soleymani)

Technology like Deep Convolutional Networks, AGAINs, and the like have made it possible to create plausible images from archetypes. Deep Stare, if its promise can be realized, will allow remote / non-line-of-sight deployment of STARE technology against enemies of the state. All that is required is an accurate image generating model, coupled with petascale iteration, to neutralize a threat based on a description. Imagine that you can simply input "a 25-year old caucasian male insurgent stands in front of a High street shop, waiting for the right moment to unleash the demonic threads even now coiling in his belly", and before he can act, he is turned into radioactive slag.

@rikefranke This sounds like something from a @cstross story. And I have to say that the similarities in effects between what the „AI“ businesses throw on the market and the gibbering horrors from beyond spacetime in the #Laundryverse novels are becoming ever more obvious.