Recent content by Tea Cozy

She got a lot of praise for playing a Texan in No Country for Old Men.

Another thing is that the particular image people got all bent out of shape over doesn’t depict adventurers at their local tavern or in someone’s home. They’re in a dungeon eating magically-conjured food. There’s a goblin in the background observing them. Maybe the conjuring mage took requests...

Was the meat sauce at least mustard-based—with none of those “love apples”? :LOL:

In 2024, someone complained on Twitter (shocking!) about that image of a Heroes Feast spell conjuring dishes that would plausibly appear in a fantasy planet with a decent amount of travel, trade, and emigration. “No! Europe only!” Really, they meant their idea of a Europe-analogous fantasy...

Upthread, I posted the findings of a recent Pew Research survey on Gen Alpha and their parents' attitudes toward AI in the US. Now, I'm reminded to find some data on Gen Z. Interestingly, Pew's 2025 global report shows the US is a bit of an outlier when it comes to young adults' concern over...

Regarding Gen Alpha and AI (for better or worse): Pew Research recently published their report on American teens, their parents, and AI. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/02/24/how-teens-use-and-view-ai/ Prior to this, the United States reported the most concern over AI's impact in...

Follow-up on the First Proof testing: OpenAI claims an internal model “probably” correctly solved five of the ten First Proof problems. Google claims its Aletheia solved six of the ten problems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21201 Consumer models like GPT 5.2 Pro—which has helped mathematicians...

Found this bit interesting...and familiar. This paper is from over a decade ago and not recent, in case anyone is wondering.

https://www.artinsociety.com/pt-1-initial-impacts.html Here's an interesting paper on photography and painting in the 19th century. There were professional careers that were wiped out. Portrait miniaturists, for example. Many painters took up photography or coloring photos in order to adapt.

I’ve seen some articles in the news lately about how very recent LLMs like GPT 5.2 Pro have helped mathematicians. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-uncovers-solutions-to-erdos-problems-moving-closer-to-transforming-math/ Famed mathematician Terence Tao has written some clear-eyed...

Well, I mentioned Tusk Love in that particular reply because the half-Orc dude is a bit Fabio-esque. It’s not cozy, but in the steamy vein. I definitely gave Legends and Lattes a shout out earlier in the thread as an example of the readers The Feywild Job is aiming at.

Isn't the heist just the plot the cozy romance hangs on? The blurb is very little about the job itself, and mostly about the two characters, their past, and the romance. Romance does stuff like that. It's weird. I can see the type of reader this book is aimed at clearly. If anyone was going to...

I immediately thought of Xuna from Neverwinter, which of course was based on 4e. Her power was called Blood Bath.

Meteorologists are concerned people are going to confuse machine learning forecasting models with the generative AI used to make that graphic. It’s mentioned in the WaPo article. “…these kinds of errors could make the public distrust other forms of AI that are completely different from the...