Esoteric Update NaNoWriMo 21/30 - No, No, Write More

Alight, the no, no, write more is coming to an end, and I'm working through the quota. Still a bit behind, but it's reasonably fixable, especially since I've been feeling a lot better.

Anyway, let's throw in some lore and an article here:

Lore: Dissertation Upon The Key Of Malkuth
Of Problems And Solutions

So let's talk about the game first. I'm still not prioritising it at the moment, but I spent some time working on a few technical details. Out of the bigger changes (they're small, I'm not working on it much ATM), there are two. First, the map is more animated to make it easier for players to orient themselves to what's happening on it. Second, there's a whole little module for images that I've been working on that is meant to make it easy to insert annotated images into the text without any hassle. There are some images we are not even obliged to give attributions for, but we still want to since we want to direct people towards some of our sources. I've also caught two bugs and corrected them. Minor, aesthetic things, but it's better for them to be taken care of sooner than later. I'm also fiddling with Associative Memory Networks because they seem to have some potential advantages over RkNN classifiers I'd like to explore. Honestly not something I should focus on since, to begin with, I never managed to do much with RkNNs (Rickenns?) and not due to a lack of trying. They require too much initial data to spin up easily. In any case, I am on record saying that I'm unsure about deploying machine learning solutions in the game, but Heteroassociative AMNs should not be any more of a black box than what's already there due to their relative simplicity.

Anyway...

I'm slowly starting to spin down the plot of the novel, and, just like I said before, it's continuing to be a light, social-focused story with BDSM elements. I'm still unsure what format to use for the novel, though I think a PDF file would be preferable.

To finish off, have some AI-generated art.