Wildmimic

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 month ago

I agree - it's so busy that trying to learn from that just will lead to more confusion. The only thing this is good for is for showing the variety of organic chemistry, and it doesn't even do a good job at it.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This does not ring a bell at all - It makes sense to look at it this way around, might have helped back then. But when i remember how old my professor was back then, and looking at how "new" the concept is, i'm pretty sure that he didn't think too fondly of such newfangled stuff.

It didn't help that the module had originally 5 hours per week, which was cut down to 3 hours without reducing the material to learn, resulting in a very old-timey approach to the whole module, since there wasn't much time at all. I learnt most of it audiotaping the lessons while copying what was written on the blackboard, and actually learned it at home.

Eta: I was very proud of my B+ back then, which squarely placed me in the best percentile - like i said, 2/3 were failing grades. I'm pretty sure i still can reproduce stuff like Beta-Oxidation reactions with a bit of time, and it's been 10 years since i actually used this stuff.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

You're right, that's absolutely necessary to learn, to take the language metapher further it's like learning to declinate verbs. I meant it really clicked for me when i started to get a feeling for charge distribution and how electronegativity of specific ligands changes it, especially to predict what will happen in cases where more than one reaction is possible.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

at least thermodynamics follow pretty static rules, that module was only an issue for me because it was a seminar where we had to work in groups, which i suck at.

I realized that organic chenistry you have to study until you get a feeling for how charge is distributed along a molecule to identify where and how it can react with other molecules, and what intermediarys (real or imagined) are formed, which boils down to learning as many reactions as possible. it's a bit like learning a language with fucked up grammar.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 14 points 1 month ago (8 children)

omg i'm getting flashbacks from my org chem course. The exam regulary failed about 2/3 of students, i needed 3 attempts to pass, and i studied like stupid for it (the second attempt was sooo close to a passing grade, i was really annoyed at that).

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Exactly. A specifically trained model could even run locally on the GPU, no need for always online, but at the cost of increased hardware requirements, especially VRAM.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
  1. Because he's an insane villain with a fixation and a lack of sense for mathematics; halfing the population doesn't help much and delays everything for a few generations max.
  2. Hulk states in Endgame that it's mainly gamma radiation, stating it's like he was meant to use them. So Thanos seems to have similar resilience to gamma radiation as the Hulk.
  3. Seems to be an affinity type of thing - in "Guardians of the Galaxy" the stone annihilates normal people trying to use it (The Collectors Servant/Slave for example), but since Quill is a celestial hybrid, they can use the stone without dying.
    4)They were destroyed by Thanos at the beginning of "Endgame" - it's the reason they have to go back in time to get them, and place them back in the past afterwards, so that the timeline doesn't get fucked up.
    5)Because space aliens can be whatever color they want to be :-)
[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 month ago

Lol, hope Dessalines has a specialized burn trauma unit nearby, great response mate!

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 11 points 1 month ago

move the hand directly above the camera to get frontal shots, works pretty much every time

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 17 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Well i must say that it is probably one of the applications where it makes the most sense; Hallucinations don't matter if it's in a game, and it makes characters more lifelike and less NPC. I can get behind that!

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 month ago

well, next up is bethesda games support, and development of the app is pretty fast, so i would expect a release supporting skyrim this year. You're right that it's pretty barebones now, but i wanted to say that we linux users will finally have a mod manager on par with the windows side of things, which is pretty awesome!

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 month ago

American themed movie hero killing hundreds in creative ways: i sleep Drawn Anime Cyborg with cables and nipples: real shit

I will never understand this

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