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Dakota Frost: About the Author

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Dr Anthony G. Francis, Jr. is a science fiction writer and computer scientist who started writing urban fantasy because he likes it. The Dakota Frost series combines Anthony's love of hard science, fantastic magic, alternative culture, and strong, feisty women. When not making computers smarter or writing science fiction and fantasy, Anthony blogs about his life, his writing and his research at The Library of Dresan. He also writes an occasionally updated webcomic, f@nu fiku. View my complete profile.

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Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr. - Research

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I've found the following short programs to be useful, especially when bound to Ctrl-Alt-Shift-O in Notepad so they can pop up in less than a second. Check them out. I offer a lot of the smaller pieces of software I write under a modified MIT license called the Poetic License. This comes in two forms: the Micropoetic license, which is short enough to insert into just about any code file, and the "amplified" Poetic License, which expands the Micropoetic License in case of a dispute. Check them out.

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The Library of Dresan: How Wide Should Your Website Be?

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Sunday, April 12, 2009. How Wide Should Your Website Be? For the longest time I've tried to design the websites I'm responsible for to be pretty narrow - the Library of Dresan. Is supposed to be just over 800 pixels, fanu fiku. Is supposed to be just over 700 pixels, and Studio Sandi. But that was almost ten years ago. Does that logic still hold? And moving to 900 or more. But rarely more than 1024. Digging around, I found more articles with the same idea - Mario Sanchez. Recommends straight out to optim...

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The Library of Dresan

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Wednesday, November 30, 2005. Here's a draft from the past (11/30/05! That never got published for some odd reason. probably because I was packing up for the move to California. Regardless, this is an abbreviated recollection of our date at Canoe. Somehow, in our first three years worth of dating, my then-fiancee, now-wife. Clearly it was high time. SO, we made a night of it and dined at Canoe. And it exceeded all our expectations. Sandi looked stunning in a red and black floral Puimond corset. And I'd s...

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Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr. - Gallery

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A desire to see my work published didn't make me publish. The encouragement of friends had a similar null effect. However, when random strangers start asking you if you have a web site for your art, it's time to wake up and smell the IrfanView. What you see here are cells from two upcoming comic books, Fanu Fiku: Premonitions (starting online October 4) and Death Wish (starting . uh . sometime). To protect the plots, I'm showing these cells out of context. Created with assistance from IrfanView.

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The Library of Dresan

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Tuesday, July 07, 2009. So I've mentioned before that I like pound cake, and that I'm working on a recipe. To make this go faster, for a few months I made pound cakes at home, cut them in half, and served half to my coworkers. Based on feedback from me, my wife, my friends, and coworkers (too dry / too moist / just right; more vanilla / less vanilla / you use vanilla? And based on events during the cooking (collapses, crust cracks, etc.) I made changes to the recipe, which I tried the next time. It opens...

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The Library of Dresan: Podmena Traffica Test?

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Monday, April 20, 2009. Recently I've been getting a lot of pointless "spam" with a reasonable sounding subject line but a body that only says "podmena traffica test". Mysterious, and pointless, from a spam perspective; so I assumed it was some automatic program testing a variety of addresses to see which ones bounced. Finally I decided to track it down, and while I don't know for sure I've now heard a good hypothesis. Trying to verify his logic: Romanizing "podmena traffica test". Research in AI & IR.

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The Library of Dresan: A Still More Glorious Dawn Awaits

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Sunday, September 27, 2009. A Still More Glorious Dawn Awaits. Tipped me to the song Glorious Dawn by Colorpulse. After so many years since his amazing television show Cosmos. It strikes me how much I like the way he thinks - how he imagines vistas of space and time:. An still more glorious dawn awaits: not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise - a morning filled with four hundred billion suns: the rising of the Milky Way. How he synthesizes facts about the world:. How he combines prediction and caution:. Softwar...

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Fiction by Dr. Anthony G. Francis, Jr.

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I've written more science fiction than anything else, spinning a series of space opera stories filled with hard-science takes on ancient myths: alien dragons, genetically engineered centaurs, and nanotech vampires. Unfortunately, the Alliance Universe is some of my earliest work and little of it has been published (yet). The one Alliance story currently published is " Sibling Rivalry. The story of a scientist fighting a computer gone mad realistically. I'm also working on webcomics, including f@nu fiku.

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The Library of Dresan

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This pays for that. August 23rd, 2016. I’m not dead, I’m just playing a game of this pays for that. The above is this – reinforcement learning for robotics. The below is that – writing. I want to be doing more writing, but I need to keep working to pay for the writing. That is all for now. We Call It Living. Finished a rough draft of PHANTOM SILVER. August 13th, 2016. We Call It Living. One Day Your Strength Will Fail. July 31st, 2016. Of the Bay Area’s new literary magazine, Fiction Silicon Valley.