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16% complete! Cthos has read 2 of 12 books.
What are the major business risks to avoid with generative AI? How do you avoid having it blow up in …
What are the major business risks to avoid with generative AI? How do you avoid …
Great book. It's clear that Mr. Bjarnason is a Generative AI skeptic (and I am too) but he gives a lot of practical advice which aims to tamp down on the hype a little.
What are the major business risks to avoid with generative AI? How do you avoid having it blow up in …
Years ago he had comrades in arms and a cause to believe in, but now …
Only on the first chapter and it's already a bit of a doozie.
Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a …
Content warning Lots of Cosmere Spoilers
Like Tress, this book contains a number of Cosmere in-references and features Hoid as the narrator. Pretty quickly you find that Hoid has found himself in yet another ridiculous situation where he's incapacitated in some way (like Tress), but he's unable to act in this one (unlike Tress). Taking Hoid's place in the role of "mentor" is Design, the cryptic that Hoid picked up in the Stormlight Archives. Now she's a buxom woman now (or rather, the illusion of a buxom woman) with "definitely very human mannerisms". I enjoyed her persona here, it provided the comic relief as a stand-in for Hoid. They really are made for each other.
The ideas behind how the Nightmares work and how the world functions really didn't make sense to me at first, but when the reveal comes at the end of the novel it all satisfyingly clicked into place. Like, in the initial chapters, I was wondering if it was tidally locked, but turns out, no.
Other thoughts:
The moral lesson / Painter's growth was good. He did that thing again where he has a character plainly lay out the backstory which is useful, but I'm not a big fan of that. The third viewpoint character (who didn't really get any viewpoint scenes) was nice, I enjoyed her. The reference to Threndony was A+.
Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a …
I enjoyed this more than I was expecting to, and I'll post a separate comment with spoilers in it right after this one.
Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a …
So far so good, I'm liking the narrative and the world building. Though it did take me a couple of tries to figure out if this was a tidally locked planet like the one White Sands takes place on.
This was a surprisingly good read - I didn't expect to like a non-cosmere book as much as I did, but the premise was great and there were several "unexpected" twists in it.
Introducing the first book in The Game Master's new "Handbook" series!
Is your roleplaying in a rut? Flip the table …
Why do only a few people get to say “I love my job?”
It seems unfair that finding fulfillment at …
Getting an MBA is an expensive choice-one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state …
Solid book, I did already understand a lot of the concepts but there were several times while reading the various sections that I thought to myself "Yeah, I see this every day". Likewise, the book does a good job of distilling the concepts into digestable chunks so it can be used for easy reference.
