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Dungeons & Dragons is such a behemoth in the tabletop roleplaying game scene that itās become a synecdoche for the hobby itself; to many, āD&Dā and ātabletop RPGā are one and the same. The game is massively popular.
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When Allana turned fourteen, the limits of her world shrank to the four corners of her bed. A heart condition kept her between hospital and home. She could not attend school or make friends. She was lonely. She could not live like a normal fourteen-year-old.
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Almost everyone has played a game in their life. Maybe it's Candy Land or Chutes and Ladders as a kid, Spit or card games in grade schoolāor perhaps you're royalty of D&D.
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The Best Tabletop RPGs Of 2020
from Game InformerMany tabletop role-playing enthusiasts had to make big changes to their playstyles in 2020. Whether it meant suspending long-running games, moving to virtual play sessions, or playing more with those they lived with, itās been a challenging time to get a fix of that dice-rolling goodness.
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Working through the Fantasy Religion Design Guide, our first step is to decide on the scope of religions on the world we are creating.
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Depending on your campaign setting idea, in the early stages you may only need a bare minimum of details about your religion.
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Ethics newsletter
Occasional ethics related stories I notice across the internet, sign up for the newsletter version, or subscribe to the RSS feed.

Auditors are testing hiring algorithms for bias, but thereās no easy fix
from MIT Technology ReviewIām at home playing a video game on my computer. My job is to pump up one balloon at a time and earn as much money as possible. Every time I click āPump,ā the balloon expands and I receive five virtual cents.
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In 2021, organisations of all kinds will realise that they have to make racial justice a core part of their mission, not just an add-on.
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Wednesday, Re, who is a Stanford University associate professor of computer science, gave a talk for the University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence institute.
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The battle inside Signal
from The VergeOn January 6th, WhatsApp users around the world began seeing a pop-up message notifying them of upcoming changes to the serviceās privacy policy.
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Muslim scholars are working to reconcile Islam and AI
from WIRED UKConceived in the research labs of the Silicon Valley, artificial intelligence is deeply rooted in secular ideals of progress. Yet ā as AI goes global ā advocates of different ethical traditions are weighing in, often calling for greater regulation of the technology.
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Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, and does it even make sense to try?
from MIT Technology ReviewThe idea of artificial general intelligence as we know it today starts with a dot-com blowout on Broadway.
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Language newsletter
My curated recommended articles on linguistics, natural language processing and interactive fiction.
Newsletter coming soon, for now enjoy the posts below, updated regularly .

How we made Typerighter, the Guardianās style guide checker
from The GuardianThe Guardianās style guide was originally published in 1928 as a physical book, and is available to everyone on our website. Over time, itās grown bigger and more complex, containing guidelines on important topics that we want to get right.
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Building an Intelligent Voice Assistant from scratch
from Towards Data ScienceIn my article Home Automation with Alexa, we learned how to emulate IoT devices and control them remotely using a Voice Assistant device. There, we used an Echo-Dot that āwake-upā every time that the word Alexa is spotted. But, how a voice assistant works?
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2020 was quite the year for science fiction, but it wasnāt all about escaping to other worlds.
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Garbage Language
from VultureThis article was featured in One Great Story, New Yorkās reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. I worked at various start-ups for eight years beginning in 2010, when I was in my early 20s. Then I quit and went freelance for a while.
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A program that can automate website development. A bot that writes letters on behalf of nature. An AI-written blog that trended on Hacker News. Those are just some of the recent stories written about GPT-3, the latest contraption of artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI.
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