Essay

Essay

Essays on various topics from Thomas Ott.
Jan
16
Writing D&D Game Modules and Adventures

Writing D&D Game Modules and Adventures

Written with no GPT inside. This is a real article.
6 min read
Dec
07
I Didn’t Survive The Tomb of Horrors

I Didn’t Survive The Tomb of Horrors

Perhaps knowing the end of the game is not necessarily as important as the shared story you experience.
2 min read
Dec
05
A Tale of Dice Probabilities, Bunco Night, And Stacking The Odds

A Tale of Dice Probabilities, Bunco Night, And Stacking The Odds

We all try to stack the odds in our favor.
3 min read
Oct
22
Is Your Cloud Competition Slaughtering You? Consider This Before A Pivot

Is Your Cloud Competition Slaughtering You? Consider This Before A Pivot

Careful strategic planning and execution of a differentiated product with low internal costs can set you apart from your competitors.
7 min read
Sep
30
The Voices of Women in The Wilderness

The Voices of Women in The Wilderness

Ed Abbey was a wonderful writer but his writing lacked one important thing, the voices of women in the wilderness.
6 min read
Sep
23
Generative AI Will Destroy Most Photography

Generative AI Will Destroy Most Photography

Gen AI was a killer comet that just slammed into the creative world and there was no going back.
6 min read
Jun
20
I've Given up on SEO in The Age of GPT

I've Given up on SEO in The Age of GPT

Your authenticity can never be replicated by a large language model (LLM), no matter how many parameters it was trained on.
6 min read
Jun
07
Navigating Through the Garbage Data World

Navigating Through the Garbage Data World

The risk that we'll end up building models on generated "fake" data is increasing daily. It's getting harder to discern what's real anymore.
6 min read
May
27
programming efficiency, climate change

Reconsidering Programming Efficiency Amidst Climate Change

Computers, GPUs, deep learning, LLMs, and Bitcoin aren't going away. They've been a big boon for humanity and have increased our quality of life, but at what cost?
8 min read
May
20
ChatGPT 4

The Promise and Peril of GPT

GPT is capable of generating text, translating languages, writing different kinds of creative content, and answering your questions in an informative way. But is it too good to be true?
10 min read