Systems and Stories
Jordan completed her PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of New Hampshire in 2012. Since then, she's used AI to solve problems in many domains including security, medicine, & logistics.
Hey guys! I wrote a book! It’s called The Little Black Notebook. It’s a story about a trans lady who finds herself falling in love with a woman she thought she had invented as a character for her tabletop role-playing game. It turns out the character is real, her world…
I had an idle thought the other day. It’s the same idle thought I have… well maybe a dozen times a day. “What the fuck am I actually doing here.” I am, it may surprise you to learn, not a particularly happy person by default. Quelle surprise, I know. I’m…
It is truly a strange thing to wonder if you will live to see tomorrow. Like, shockingly clarifying in a way, to know what you would do in the hours that you believe might be your last. How you’ll feel. Let me start again. It’s about a quarter past eight…
In which we’ll catch the conscience of the king, I guess. Look, wordplay is hard, and I want to talk about ways of solo roleplaying. Not systems or methodologies per se, but like, the how it’s done. Maybe we’ll even touch on the why here a second. If you, like…
I know this is going to sound ridiculous, given the amount of angst in our lives about how much sex we aren’t having, but I promise this is orthogonal. I need you to know that I’m really uncomfortable with how much you like my dick. Look, it’s not like I…
I’ve thrown away about thirty thousand words of this book. Well… thrown away isn’t true. They’re still there, on the drive, in a folder titled “abortive drafts”. Let’s put on ‘Brick’, shed a single tear, and talk about why draft isn’t really the right word, and what those words were…
Guess this has become a yearly tradition. What’s the line? Once is chance, twice is happenstance, three times is enemy action? I’m not a consultant anymore, and I refuse to look up the quote. Anyway, it’s Pride again, and I’m still alive. Woooooo. Recently that has felt like a motherfucking…
Hey y’all, in a few short days, I’ll be in Dublin for the annual international conference on automated planning and scheduling, I’ll be presenting some preliminary work on triangle search and how it performance in automated planners at the heuristic search for domain independent planning workshop. Abstract for that paper…
Writing is a weird thing to do. Setting words down on a page is massively impoverished next to a conversation. You can’t read the room, or the single person you’re talking to. Chances are you aren’t even there to see it when the message lands. There’s no room to pivot,…
And yet it seems like everyone else knows the rules doesn’t it? They got a fucking manual and we didn’t. Life’s not fair kid, but it’s horrible and messy and wonderful, just like what you’re chasing after.
