Joe ST

Tad Williams' Otherland is just an awesome blend of scifi/fantasy. I'm a-liking myself some Peter F Hamliton, Alastair Reynolds and Dan Simmonds for the scifi.

http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2011/03/30 awesome!!!

that Hoid has a lot to answer for

Well hello there Lurker <3 glad to meet you. If you ever need any programming help, I'm a pro. Literally. Rather than Eero's engineering path, I'm just a code monkey What you more into, designing or programming? For they are oft separate jobs, and thinking separate also helps actually doing things. What programming languages do you know? Any sample code we can look at, Oh oh oh, do you have a github account? *nerdgasm* Yeah,....prepare yourself ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR! Hope you enjoy messing around in the site code as much as I would. Joe

I was thinking about that too. It's been hinted at (one argument against infinite storage is that they use multiple similar rings, but that might be purely aesthetic for partitioning the power into easy to control chunks). I guess (assuming that their universe has similar physics to ours) that storage mechanism is just packing energy/information or imparting structure onto the underlying structure of the magic (the magic is doing no work to an untouched 'mind). So there will be an upper limit on the density of energy or structure you can fit into a certain amount of metal. Once above these limits, it's possible that the metal may become unstable, or the information stored may start to be less reliable. I wouldn't want to wear a 'mind that might explode...nor would an unreliable source of data. Another possible way of augmenting the knowledge storage would be to add a level of indirection, in which the raw data is processed, an error detection datum added to the end, and then the data can be compressed somehow, then placed on the 'mind. What I mean is some sort of synaptic processor between your mind and the metal, which takes what you wish to store, calculates a value that can be used to check for inconsistencies in the data later, and then compress it like a zip file. And for retrieval we do the opposite: decompress it, calculate the error checking value and compare to the one stored, and pass the data to the brain if its correct. *overthinks*

...shouldnt you be wiki-ing?

hehhe I pronounced Kelsier as 'Klei-ser' >.> as in Klein bottle ...

A different Brandon, but still pretty cool

yeah, no waiting always helps

Exactly what I want to say .... stealin my thoughts

and articles too!

I look forward to those wiki entries

or numerous Gold-minds?

Or, more generally, what constitutes and how difficult to create are foci for AonDor.

or can they? They'd need to know and comprehend exact distances through space/time/etc. That's some doing.

and dont forget, (or at least, I think so) 7. Kelsier was around after Leras' death (he became a Sliver at this point, or so I've heard).

That is a very nice/interesting idea, *cue angry theorisers-who-know-better*

Well, here again a tin savant could probably do well too. And emotional Allomancy would as well. Hemalurgy would really screw with sportsmanship. Cadmium would be awesome to burn in an exam I wonder if you can become an Feruchemical savant, constantly storing stuff. Some of the options might be bad for your health since you'd be unable to do things. If you were hooked upto a life-support system, you could do constant storage of steel, tin, zinc and bronze. Iron, pewter and gold could be stored if you were even more safe. Brass might be do-able if you are kept warm.

Use Wolfram|Alpha for symbolic manipulation http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=5x^-2y^10+over+2x^-1%28-3x^-3y^-1%29^-2 (5/9)x^3y^7

I like seeing threads on maths, but even better, I like seeing threads on maths with 9 posts NOT asking questions

http://www.timewastersguide.com/forum/index.php?topic=7929.msg174005#msg174005 yay for google

more of a "destruction of all things", 100% entropy, that kinda thing.

Pewter/Steelmind for fast-couriers.