conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I love his work and bought physical copies of all of Stormlight, Mistborn, and just a couple days ago the pretty "premium" hardcovers for the secret projects, just to have on my shelves.

My one thing is that his introductions are almost always slower than I'd like. Though ironically he did better in the Wax and Wayne Mistborn arc and I like the Vin arc more.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Right now I'm way down a Brandon Sanderson rabbit hole, so I guess the Cosmere? I'd say Stormlight Archive, but Mistborn is really cool because they're set at the inflection points in the planet's history. The first arc is excellent, and it changes the world. The second arc is set in the future, with mythologies based on the first arc and scientific progress based on secrets uncovered in the first. The changes in the use of magic are really cool. There's a third arc planned to be set in the future from there.

But the Cosmere as a whole shares some core concepts and characters can move across it, and that comes into other standalone works like (3 of 4) secret projects and a bunch of other stuff.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Facial recognition works better on white people because, mathematically, they provide more information in real world camera use cases.

Darker skin reflects less light and dark contrast is much more difficult for cameras to capture unless you have significantly higher end equipment.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd be interested in the form factor with like a raspberry pi in there.

Less powerful than that seems like a waste.