Tag: Life Things

How cool is it that I can say I work with Robots!

The bot’s name is Milo, from RoboKind. He’s an advanced social robot that helps children with autism develop social skills and self-regulation techniques. RoboKind and Mark got the brilliant idea of setting up Milo to communicate with people at conventions since RoboKind attends quite a few throughout the year. The only problem, up until now, Milo didn’t respond to people asking questions. So Mark and a few other programmers put their heads together to solve this problem and I was brought into help with the response side using IBM’s Watson Conversation Service.

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Escaping to familiar ground

Please don’t think to little of me for running back to a safety net. This back-step has brought a new perspective. It’s highlighted several weakness that I need to strength myself against in order to walk this path as a writer.

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It’s hard and I feel guilty

I can’t comfort anyone.
I don’t know how to get rid of this guilt for having covered my ears and shut my eyes to the hate.
The only thing I can promise is to be a writer who tells different stories.
I am a Lesbian, and I have longed to see heroes with my sexuality and struggles.

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Overcoming worry

It’s okay that all the words aren’t quite right and you’re very simple with your structure. All that matters is the story you want to tell. Work on the rest later. Get the skeleton first then put on the muscles and before long you can fill it with life.

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