adelzaalouk
> Note: If your agent already uses the Responses API or Interactions API with built-in tool loops, the outcome loop wraps around that agentic loop as a quality gate. The agent finishes its work (tool calls, multi-turn reasoning, whatever it does), then the outcome loop scores the final output...
adelzaalouk
> "Although the term is widely used by many people working in closely related areas, it defies attempts to produce a single universally accepted definition." — Michael Wooldridge & Nicholas Jennings, Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice (1994) _Extracted from:...
Rob Taylor
When my husband was in the late stages of his terminal illness, he asked me to read him poetry. He didn't ask for short stories, or essays, or news articles, or the first crisp pages of a novel, with its unfolding narrative weight. The request was unexpected. Despite his five (almost five and a...
Rob Taylor
As David St. John—a longtime friend of Levis and one of the figures instrumental in bringing his posthumous work to light—points out in his afterward to Levis’s The Darkening Trapeze (2016), Levis often closes his poems with a reckoning by fire, whether that be a purifying, revelatory fire, such...
Rob Taylor
Karan Kapoor: Your poems live inside questions — and often leave them unanswered. “Where do we go from here?” you ask, before pivoting into a description of clouds, oil changes, and personal injury law ads. I love that refusal to resolve. Do you think poetry should resist the impulse to provide...
Rob Taylor
The long poem has a somewhat singular history in Canadian literature. It proliferated among my generation of poets in the 70s and 80s, and Michael Ondaatje's and Sharon Thesen's anthologies of the Canadian long poem attest to its abundance. VIU's own student poet Délani Valin's Malahat...
Rob Taylor
The great masters both of the East and the West never forgot the value of suggestion as a means for taking the spectator into their confidence. Who can contemplate a masterpiece without being awed by the immense vista of thought presented to our consideration? How familiar and sympathetic are they...
Rob Taylor
Art can be defined as whatever an artist says it is - and anybody can declare themselves to be an artist. This... people find disconcerting, and annoying. Meantime, certain individuals, anxious to have their unusual artistic practice recognized as falling under the definition of their art form,...
Rob Taylor
I decided I wanted to write poems on July 16th, 1999. I was sitting in my parents’ living room in Chester, Nova Scotia. It was four fifteen in the afternoon (this is Atlantic time); I was helping friends to put on a play that week but had the day free until my call time. My mother was listening to...
Rob Taylor
The work, in the small press, is more than the poem you are trying to write. To be engaged in the small press is to be intimately involved in a network of activities, and it is to direct those activities to a communal project. Small press writers are also small press editors, and publishers, and...
Rob Taylor
Sitting in Michael [Dennis]'s library [of some nine or ten thousand books of poetry] after he died, I though how different it feels as a reader compared to how it feels as a writer. That was something I wasn't prepared for after my first book came out. I am sitting here in my own library with a...
Danny Silverman
Perhaps we will welcome our new AI overlords and perhaps they will treat us kindly. But either way, my current preference is to put many fewer eggs in the “further advances in Computer Stuff will save us” basket and many more eggs in the “we need to directly address public policy problems that...
Danny Silverman
If you find the smell of restaurants’ truffle dishes foul, it does not mean that you do not like truffles; it could indicate that you have good taste and do not like petroleum on your plate. Unlike that intense gas-like smell, the aroma of real truffles is mild and complex.The truffle industry is...
Danny Silverman
[T]here is a sensation universal to all humans. It is that feeling you get when you’re standing outside somewhere and look up to see trees blowing in the wind, or stumble across a stream running over rocks. As you listen to that gentle creaking, or that low-tone burbling, what you feel at that...
Danny Silverman
“Humans have a fundamental need to create and maintain a narrative for their lives in which the universe is not implacable and heartless, that terrible things do not happen at random, and that catastrophe can be avoided if you are vigilant and responsible. We are vulnerable, but we don’t want to...
Adam
On Reading “Reading great literature is like having an intimate conversation with someone who has thought a lot about what they are going to say.” On Knowledge “I try to be open to the idea that at any given moment, I am wrong about everything.” On Understanding “If you encounter a situation,...
Amedee
This points, perhaps, to a network issue. (…) You might talk to your IT person. The IT support is usually found in a remote janitor closet, eating cheetos and drinking mountain dew while playing Everquest on a wireless laptop. Just follow the crumbs. – quaoar [at] tenthplanet.net in...
Amedee
This points, perhaps, to a network issue. (…) You might talk to your ITperson. The IT support is usually found in a remote janitor closet,eating cheetos and drinking mountain dew while playing Everquest on awireless laptop. Just follow the crumbs. — quaoar [at] tenthplanet.net in...