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When game developer Matt Leacock released his best-selling board game Pandemic, he didn't expect that twelve years later people would be using it to help them process an actual pandemic sweeping the world.
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Dungeons & Dragons is such a behemoth in the tabletop roleplaying game scene that itâs become a synecdoche for the hobby itself; to many, âD&Dâ and âtabletop RPGâ 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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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, itâs 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.

How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
from MIT Technology ReviewJoaquin Quiñonero Candela, a director of AI at Facebook, was apologizing to his audience.
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I asked an AI to tell me how beautiful I am
from MIT Technology ReviewQoves started as a studio that would airbrush images for modeling agencies; now it is a âfacial aesthetics consultancyâ that promises answers to the âage-old question of what makes a face attractive.
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Why GPT-3 is the best and worst of AI right now
from MIT Technology ReviewGPT-3 has captured the publicâs imagination unlike any AI since DeepMindâs AlphaGo or IBMâs chess-Âplaying DeepBlue.
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What do Lyft, Facebook, the International Red Cross, the U.N., the government of Nepal and Pokémon Go have in common? They all use the same source of geospatial data: OpenStreetMap, a free, open-source online mapping service akin to Google Maps or Apple Maps.
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Auditors are testing hiring algorithms for bias, but thereâs no easy fix
from MIT Technology ReviewIâm 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 âPump,â 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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Language newsletter
My curated recommended articles on linguistics, natural language processing and interactive fiction.
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Why GPT-3 is the best and worst of AI right now
from MIT Technology ReviewGPT-3 has captured the publicâs imagination unlike any AI since DeepMindâs AlphaGo or IBMâs chess-Âplaying DeepBlue.
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In his early days of writing, famed fantasy and Appendix N writer Michael Moorcock was a disciple of Lester Dent's Master Plot.
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How we made Typerighter, the Guardianâs style guide checker
from The GuardianThe Guardianâs style guide was originally published in 1928 as a physical book, and is available to everyone on our website. Over time, itâs 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 âwake-upâ every time that the word Alexa is spotted. But, how a voice assistant works?
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