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Vecna

@Vecna@mastodon.online

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence"
Senior Data Scientist
Books, boardgames, RPGs, evolutionary computation, graph DB
Autistic; Gay

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ZachWeinersmith, to random
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What are your last three book purchases and are you ashamed?

Vecna,
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@ZachWeinersmith The Lost Metal (Brandon Sanderson), Oathbringer: Part 2 (Brandon Sanderson), and Myst: the Book of Atrus (Rand and Robyn Miller).

And no, not at all ashamed.

Vecna, to random
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Currently (re)reading: Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo.

Technically started this on Wednesday (18th) but only just decided to start posting these.

Edit: finished 23rd.

Vecna,
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Moving onto Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo - sequel to Six of Crows.

Edit: finished 30th October.

Vecna,
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Taking a brief break from fiction to read "The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World" by Andy Sharp.

https://www.librarything.com/work/31049844/book/251336620

Edit: Finished 16th November.

Vecna,
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Moving back to fiction with "Children of Time" by @aptshadow (Adrian Tchaikovsky).

It's good so far - but the constant descriptions of spiders means I can only read this one during the daytime...

Vecna,
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Given I'm avoiding that at bed time, I'm simultaneously also reading "Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology", edited by Celine Frohn.

Edit: finished 19th November.

Vecna,
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Moving onto the follow-up: "Unthinkable: A Queer Gothic Anthology", edited by Celine Frohn.

Edit: finished 24th.

Vecna,
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And another temporary pause in reading to dip into "Defiant", book 4 of Skyward by Brandon Sanderson.

Edit: And completed.

Vecna,
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Realised I hadn't got around to reading "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austin before - so I picked that up last night to start.

Edit: finished 5th December.

Vecna,
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Starting "Poison Study" by Maria V Snyder.
Picked up the whole trilogy in a secondhand bookshop on holiday.

Edit: finished 12th December.

Vecna,
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@TiffyBelle @bookstodon I thought it was fine - nothing super special, but I enjoyed it enough to move onto the second one.

Couple of twists - saw one of them coming and not the other. Book 2 looks as though it will go into the magic more than Book 1 did - which is the bit I'm interested in with most series. :)

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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I'm sure there's a tendency to always view the past as better, but the social-media-ification of the Internet has really sucked a lot of the joy out of entertaining people. When it was peripheral to the broader Internet, you spent most of your time making stuff. Now you gotta learn 8 to 12 platforms that mostly want you to act like an employee of their algorithm.

Vecna, (edited )
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@ZachWeinersmith The pseudo death of RSS feeds has been a major part of the problem for me. I lost track of so many webcomics when my collection of feeds broke or was inaccessible for a while when Google Reader was killed (and some other issues that were more on my side).

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Backers at the 75$ level get this free and scientifically incorrect Tychonic cosmology. Annoy your friends! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/the-universe-abridged-beyond-the-point-of-usefulness?ref=6vghse

Vecna,
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@ZachWeinersmith Is this something we can add onto lower level pledges? :)

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Do you think better AI will change the way we store files? Meaning basically, right now you make specific folders and ideally nest them so you can locate stuff. But maybe in the future everything just goes in a bin and you say "hey AI, get me that one file about the thing"

Vecna,
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@ZachWeinersmith I dislike this idea, just because I like organising things!

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