Science's Less Accurate Grandmother

Steve[n] Mollmann's blog: it only knows that it needs, but like so many of us, it does not know what

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11 September 2026

What Is the Pangram AI Detector's False-Positive Rate for LLM-Generated Prose?

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As I have mentioned in a previous post , I spent a lot of time this summer battling bots on Reddit. I would like to say I'm pretty good ...
09 September 2026

The Maze Agency: "The Adventure of the Chinese Dissident" and Other Stories by Mike W. Barr et al.

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Somewhat belatedly—I think while writing up the previous post in this sequence—I discovered that there were actually three  Maze Agency  sho...
07 September 2026

Star Trek: The Destiny Era: Coda: The Ashes of Tomorrow

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July 2387 My guess is that I am going to reach book III of Coda and decide Coda was a bad idea. Some might roll their eyes at this declar...
04 September 2026

The 2026 Hugo Awards: Thoughts on the Final Results

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Another year, another season of Hugo reading over with. This year was my tenth year doing it, which means I've been doing it a quarter o...
02 September 2026

Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things (2014)

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I received this book for Christmas from LibraryThing's Secret Santa program and, as is my usual practice with such books, tried to go in...
01 September 2026

Reading Roundup Wrapup: August 2026

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Pick of the month:   Crucible of Gold  by Naomi Novik . It was a little bit of a struggle to pick a winner this month, because I don't t...
31 August 2026

Vincent Shandor, Carpatho-Ukraine in the Twentieth Century (1997)

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Carpatho-Ukraine is a region bordering Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania, populated by members of all those ethnicities, not t...
28 August 2026

The Internet Is Dying

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You may be familiar with "Dead Internet Theory," which states that "activity and content on the internet, including social m...
26 August 2026

Daniel Mason, North Woods (2023)

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North Woods by Daniel Mason Published: 2023 Acquired: June 2025 Read: June 2026 Last summer, I participated in our loca...
24 August 2026

Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell (2012)

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I presented at a conference back in March about my idea of the "epistemic crisis" in science fiction. Specifically, I focused on ...
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