Review: The Bee-ginning: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG by Icalos

A positive review, recommending it to readers who enjoy litRPG or dungeon core especially.

You should have been warned by the name: "stuff" is a perfectly accurate representation of what this is. Thus far, we've had a review of a router, articles about AI, and thoughts on accessibility. There's probably a review of a meet thermometer coming up in the near future; obviously, the key to gaining readers is to publish random articles on subject matter so diverse that nobody in the world could care about all of it.

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Can AI help me read scans of golden-age science fiction magazines?

I try multiple AI tools to attempt to get an accurately transcribed and formatted version of the Astounding Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy from 1955. This stream of consciousness article documents how it went.

I've always loved golden-age pulp science fiction. Unfortunately, the scans of magazines like astounding are generally of poor enough quality that standard OCR struggles with them.

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the three AI tools in my accessibility toolbox

These are the three AI tools I use as a daily part of my life, and a list of five tools I'm still trying.

Whenever any cutting-edge technology hits the mainstream, there's an explosion of creativity as people experiment with designs, try to find solutions for old problems, and create new solutions looking for a problem. This is especially true in the accessibility industry. It happened with the internet, web 2.0, the blockchain, and now it's AI's turn. Three quarters of these products disappear without ever gaining adoption. But the ones that survive change the world forever.

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