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Re:Calypso: LLMs as Dungeon Masters' Assistants [pdf] on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @12:29PM (#43695175)
oh and the Calypso link is here: https://github.com/northern-lights-province/calypso-aiide-ar...

As others have mentioned, I have been using Claude to write some prompts for things, give me some ideas for scenarios with younger players, and name some cities and towns in my campaign.

Re:Calypso: LLMs as Dungeon Masters' Assistants [pdf] on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @12:27PM (#43695141)
It is interesting how many of these play D&D with AI games are out there. Here's one example (no affiliation): https://airealm.com/
Re:Atari 2600 Manual: Basic Programming on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:14PM (#34076238)
This brought me to my first programming experience (outside of college computer labs while on field trips) - the VIC-20.

http://cini.classiccmp.org/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20User%27s%2...

Re:Movies every physics lover should watch (2020) on Thursday May 13, 2021 @10:39AM (#27142576)
A list of Physics movies, without mentioning the most accurate depiction of Graduate School? No list is complete without the glory that is Real Genius. "Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/?ref_=tt_ch
Re:Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:39PM (#22240025)
Cooking: while in grad school we started a cooking club, which has since evolved into a cookbook club. One person chooses a cookbook, and then tells the group which main dish they will prepare. Others chime in with side dishes, desserts, etc. The group gets together to discuss the book, the challenges, the triumphs, etc. It is one of the things I look forward to!
Re:A 30th anniversary note to Prince of Persia fans on Thursday June 27, 2019 @11:12AM (#20295112)
THANK YOU! I just lost a good 20 minutes reading through that blog, and I just bought the book! And ... I downloaded Karateka on my iPhone.
I have been using an App called Zero which (importantly for your question) has a "Learn" section which allows you to read up on fasting. (as an example they link to this: https://getkion.com/fasting-decoded/

I started with the 'skip breakfast' style of fasting, which was good, but then I did my homework on the different 'types':

16:8 16 hours no food: 8 hour 'feeding window' (generally normal dinner, no breakfast, later lunch)

18:6 - this is where I believe most Intermittent fasters go.

20:4 - I've done this a bit, and it works for me, but I can't do it more than once or twice(!) a week.

Re:Fasting can improve overall health on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:46PM (#18925706)
There have been studies on people as well, with encouraging results: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/377/eaai8700

as well as

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155041311...

Still, more work needs to be done.

Interestingly, Boston Calling won't enforce this rule: http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2018/01/24/going-...

and also - Pearl Jam has released information on their upcoming tour - the tickets themselves will be SmartPhone only (from their Fan Club site, Ten Club):

Ten Club Mobile Tickets: No will call. No physical tickets. In order to distribute tickets more efficiently, Ten Club will be delivering all Ten Club tickets directly to your smart phone. Mobile ticket delivery requires an iPhone or Android smart phone. Instead of scanning a physical ticket at the gate, members will access tickets through their smartphone and scan directly from the screen of your mobile device. Step-by-step instructions on how to access your ticket on your phone will be sent to all Ten Club ticket holders via email when they are ready for mobile distribution. We plan to have this delivered to you by early July.

Re:Chalkdust – A magazine for the mathematically curious on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:05AM (#15932725)
That's great thanks, added to Feedly!
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2016? on Friday June 03, 2016 @05:59PM (#11833588)
Thanks for this! I just signed up ...
Re:Ask HN: Do you still read RSS feeds? on Friday February 19, 2016 @04:28PM (#11136759)
I use feedly (http://feedly.com/) daily. My list of RSS feeds needs some curation, but I find it easier than going to the sites directly.