Growing Range of Researchers, Scientists Adopt NVIDIA cuQuantum and QODA
In her 18 years as a competitive figure skater, Bettina Heim learned to land a lutz with speed and grace. Now, armed with a Ph.D. in quantum computing, she’s helping Microsoft Azure Quantum carve out a position at the cutting edge of cloud services. “I’ve always been attracted to interesting p......
Why the New NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip Is Ideal for Next-Gen Recommender Systems
Recommender systems, the economic engines of the internet, are getting a new turbocharger: the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip. Every day, recommenders serve up trillions of search results, ads, products, music and news stories to billions of people. They’re among the most important AI models of our......
NVIDIA Omniverse ACE Enables Easier, Faster Deployment of Interactive Avatars
Meet Violet, an AI-powered customer service assistant ready to take your order. Unveiled this week at GTC, Violet is a cloud-based avatar that represents the latest evolution in avatar development through NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), a suite of cloud-native AI microservices that make ......
Keynote Wrap-Up: NVIDIA CEO Unveils Next-Gen RTX GPUs, AI Workflows in the Cloud
New cloud services to support AI workflows and the launch of a new generation of GeForce RTX GPUs featured today in NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote, which was packed with new systems, silicon, and software. “Computing is advancing at incredible speeds, the engine propelling this rocket is ......
Storytelling Exercise: Concepts and Premises
How can you use concepts and premises as a storyteller? Today’s storytelling exercise is an excerpt from my book, Story Drills: Fiction Writing Exercises, which helps beginning to intermediate storytellers develop skills in the craft of fiction writing. This exercise addresses two useful too......
Journal Prompts for Aspiring Writers
Journal prompts for aspiring writers. Journal prompts are a great way to kick off a writing session when you’re feeling uninspired. We all have days when writing ideas are nowhere to be found, but that doesn’t mean you have to go a day without writing. In fact, on those days when my muse i......
Check Out These Reviews of 101 Creative Writing Exercises
This post contains affiliate links that earn commissions from qualifying purchases. When I set out to write 101 Creative Writing Exercises, the goal was simple: give writers the tools they need to succeed. Many of the writing exercises I had done over the years were fun or interesting, but f......
15 Quick and Dirty Writing Tips
You can’t have too many writing tips! The first time someone told me, “show, don’t tell,” I had no idea what they were talking about. Show what? Isn’t writing, by its very nature, telling? I was a young writer and didn’t yet understand the many elements of good writing. But I kept ......
Critiques Make Your Writing Better, So Grin and Bear Them
Critiques make your writing better. Today I’d like to share an excerpt from my book 10 Core Practices for Better Writing. This excerpt is from “Chapter Seven: Feedback,” which offers tips for giving and receiving critiques as well as coping with public criticism. The excerpt I’ve chose......
Punctuation Marks: The Exclamation Mark
All about the exclamation mark. It’s a relatively simple punctuation mark — a bold one without a lot of confusing rules — yet it’s still grossly overused. It gives our sentences pizzazz. It emphasizes dialogue when one character shouts or snaps at another. And it gives copy editors hea......