#work from home students

[i-like-anything-water]

has anyone ever said 'huh what if I make an au of Chloe and Adrien being childhood friends and royalty who are destined to marry except Adrien is smitten with the foreign (idk which one yet) artist Luka while Chloe is fighting demons for her rival/enemy/crush (??? at this point she doesn't know lol) prodigy/rising palace fashionista Marinette. like, they're gay but unfortunately engaged."

"Can you pretend to flirt with Luka so he has an excuse to come here."

"Is Marinette coming?"

"Yes."

*slaps on blush that could rival a bruise* "Where's your prince charming."

[protagaster]

[After Penelope returns to Ithaca] Telemachas: Mom, what do you think the meaning of life is?

Penelope: Hmm, now that’s a tricky one. I’d guess it would be-

Penelope: CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES, SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU, AND HEAR THE LAMENTATIONS OF THEIR YOUNG!

Penelope: Or having a family! It’s pretty much the same!

Telemachas: *slowly backs away*

[katiajewelbox]

Today I submitted my PhD thesis.

[regular-gnome]

What's Anatomist up to lately? (I miss my bae)

They are mainly working, occasionally getting annoyed at how evolution makes things more difficult for them to work on

it's reference to the recurrent laryngeal nerve. The fun thing about it is that it's the nerve that innervates the muscles in the larynx, but it detours around the aorta on its way from the brain to the voice box. This is especially noticeable in larger animals where the heart and the voice box are far apart. For example, in giraffes, the structures are only a few centimeters apart, but the nerve can get 5 meters long because it travels all the way down to the chest and then loops back up. This is a result of how structures evolved from fish (with no necks) to large animals (with large necks). Evolution can't just "unplug" the nerve and optimize it, so next best thing is to gradually adjust over time

animation of the process | bit more info about it

[vaguely-concerned]

idea: mourn watch student beds are often basically just repurposed or leftover coffins and sarcophagi. (omg. younger novices sometimes sleeping communally in unoccupied catacomb niches like they're bunk beds.....) the only thing that makes emmrich's romance scene remarkable as to the usual sleeping arrangements of a watcher is that a) they're sleeping and ahem enjoying other activities on like. just the naked bedframe with no sheets or mattress or anything. rare L for emmrich's rizz going on here unless he thought the full coffin experience would add something for rook (they are dating him specifically; he might be right in his priorities here honestly) and b) it's emmrich doing it (by the time you've reached the seniority he's at most watchers have taken steps to make their quarters more comfortable and easy on the joints and back than the equivalent of the sad folding bed from your college days. i fully believe emmrich has a luxurious double bed with silk sheets somewhere further up in the necropolis but such is his commitment to sweep rook off their feet goth style and by all means it seems to be working flawlessly, I won't embarrass myself by presuming to teach a master how to practice his art, as you were professor volkarin)

[manlymysticranger]

Writing my MBA application essays for M7 colleges and can't figure out the first sentence since morning 😭 but at least the Coworking space is a vibe (they serve mocktails) ❤️

[emgoesmed]

9/14/2024

I can’t believe it’s September. Time is flying.

Coming off a long week of nights. My first true 80hr work week as a resident. I’m sure it seems like small potatoes to the surgeons out there, but I’m definitely tired. 😅

I went on a cute lunch date with my bf and then we spent the rest of the day in the kitchen. He made homemade pho and I made a lemon olive oil loaf cake. We sipped on orange wine and watched Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix and it was such a perfect day. ❤️

[dark-elf-writes]

Was thinking about eleven year old Fawn Spots Harry and made myself laugh because he would be so angry that technology doesn’t work at Hogwarts.

Full on “What do you mean Olympus has cell service and the middle of Scotland doesn’t?! It’s not even the same plane of fucking existence and calls aren’t even long distance!” Little man has not been more than a phone call away from his family since he was adopted and he is not coping well, but beyond that the lack of online databases, easy way to compile notes and write the eight million essays they’re assigned, and actual entertainment that isn’t ’dangerous flying dodgeball’ (which he does love tbh but still not everyone does) would drive him up the wall. Fuck the lack of things like highlighters and binders would piss him off. 

He would show up with a spiral notebook and a mechanical pencil and a pureblood child would pass out from shock. He writes his family constantly begging for any and all stationary they can send. He uses breaks to type up last term’s notes and introduces the first final study guide in Times New Roman into Hogwarts and makes a killing off of selling them. The older pureblood students beg on bended knee for help making their own and the muggleborns realize oh shit they can corner the market per year and subject. Harry will drag Hogwarts into the modern age if he has to do so kicking and screaming.

[itspileofgoodthings]

ALSO I am learning how to teach very introverted students, something my natural skillset as a teacher does not help me with.

[some-pers0n]

interesting ideas about AI art and by no means am I trying to send hate but I believe majority of people hate AI art is because it's truly just the byproduct of a giant plinko board bouncing through pieces of art made by artists who put love and care and SOUL into their work. A visual product of a math formula. While it's "art" in the most litteral sense, not having a true human behind it putting though and effort into its every detail, for many people (myself included) devalues it from a tradition artists work.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that AI art is inherently unequal to non Ai art, specifically for this reason. (Hope this made sense sorry if it's incoherent)

I agree in that sense there. I personally do not find myself wanting to engage in a work when I purposefully know the creator had used AI to create the entire product. Something something,,,I cannot find myself getting invested in something that is little more than a product. I don't wanna read a fic about my blorbos when it was written by Chat-GPT

I also agree with the idea that a lot of people hate AI art because of this heavily emotional, debatably reactionary mindset that stems from one thing: fairness. It's the same sort of emotion I find one gets if all of the work on a group project gets shafted onto them whilst their fellow peers sit idly by. It feels unfair to sink hours into your craft, spending all this time fighting to develop your skills and flourish as an artist, only to see someone type half a paragraph and have a machine spit back something that looks not half bad. Let's be honest with ourselves here and say that AI art, at least in a visual regard, has progressed quite a bit to the point where most of the mistakes people find can be dismissed as wonky perspective and the line art being a bit fucky, which is something a ton of artists struggle with too

People develop a sort of a superiority complex over it. I can't blame them honestly. A number of times I've felt it too when people tell me they're using Chat-GPT as though it were Google and when I see my family members and friends playing around with AI art. I gotta bite my tongue and choke back a chortle, both because it's kind of a dick move and also because I don't want to relish in this feeling. It's infectious though to feel as though you have an edge over another person just because you abstain from using Chat-GPT or whatever. Not to be all "grrgrgrr you should LOVE Chat-GPT and if you dare to say anything bad then you are EVILL!!" of course though. It's emotions. They're messy, intense, and oftentimes you don't really realize when you're feeling since you get locked into your perspective. Yet, I think it's important to realize a lot of hatred of this generative AI stems from emotions. Reactionary ideals and claims stem from emotions after all

I think ultimately what the conversation about generative AI should revolve around is about the concerns of labour. The several strikes from a while back from VFX artists and scriptwriters come to mind. They are most at stake from generative AI as tools like Chat-GPT are cheaper and more cost-effective than paying an actual employee for their time and effort. I would also mention the environmental issues, but if we were to talk about that we would also have to acknowledge the fact that so, so much water is being used up daily to generate power for servers. Hell, this post alone will probably contribute to drying up some marsh in the greater scheme of things

Anywho yada yada TL;DR: I agree yes but I also think it's important to recognize that a good chunk of your hatred to Chat-GPT stems from feeling cheated and a sense of pride and superiority over others for simply not using it. There is no quality to Chat-GPT that makes it inherently evil. I can't get upset at my grandma for sending me a photo of her and her dog that went through an AI anime filter. I can feel maybe some exhaustion when seeing a fellow classmate using Chat-GPT to write their essay, but ultimately I write my own work for the love of the game. I can get upset however at those in higher power who use it to push artists out of jobs. Chat-GPT is a tool that has its pros and cons and I think it's reductive to just basically sit there and hiss like a vampire when presented with a cross when faced with the mere word "AI", especially when your only big argument for disliking it is based purely in feeling cheated when someone types a prompt into a program and art that would've taken you seven hours to draw gets spit out in about a minute or two

[ley-med]

When I volunteered to teach med students who have a rotation in our hospital, I was really scared I wouldn't be able to talk consequently for 1,5 hours, and I would be left there with the students in an uncomfortable hour of silence before I could let them go home... Now that I had my first practical, I can safely say my worries in this regard were unwarranted.

Apparently, it's really, really hard to speak only for 1,5 hours about a topic I'm really passionate about

[es-r-aa7]

Todays view 🥲🤓

عينٌ على الدنيا وأخرى على الأخرة :)

[terresdebrume]

Okay so I have a free week coming up, including 3 days where basically everything closes down. My objective for this time is to make a poster for my students about how to handle mistakes. I'm thinking of the steps going like:

Did my mistake hurt someone other than me? Yes -> Apologize appropriately (not too little, not too much), accept that sometimes people don't forgive you. You are allowed to ask for help to figure out how to apologize. | No -> Take a deep breath, tell urself it could be worse, move to step 2. You are allowed to ask people to remind you it could have been worse.

Can I fix it? Yes –> Start working on that: how do you fix it, when, what material do you need? You are always allowed to ask for help fixing your mistakes. | No -> learn from it. Where did things go wrong? Can you do something to avoid making the same mistake in the future? Do that. You are allowed to ask people to help you figure out the answers to those questions.

Should I forgive myself? Yes. We all make mistakes, and you can't shame or scold yourself into a better person. Take a deep breath, let go of the shame/embarrassment, and move forward. You are allowed to ask for help with forgiving yourself.

Potential bonus: 4 sentences to help with the process of letting go of guilt

I am not the first person to make this mistake and I will not be the last.

Nobody died from my mistake.

Being ashamed doesn't help anyone.

I can do better next time.

[paracosm-draw]

Born to stay home all day to draw my blorbos, forced to go to the faculty and realize experimentations on milk and eggs and fish only to use falsified results in the report because the teacher doesn't have half of the tools to do them and is unable to answer any of our questions about the protocol 😔

[siph-by-induction]

wanted to learn some r so i started doing the cs50 r course. i was on a godawful school chromebook, and they've made it so you can't install linux, so i can't use vs code. rstudio cloud to the rescue, i sign up to rstudio cloud with my school email, write my first little program and save it in rstudio cloud.

i go back today. i want to carry on with my thing. i try to sign in to rstudio cloud.

"Your administrator has not approved access for this app."

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN!!!!!! I WAS USING IT ON WEDNESDAY!!!!!!!!! LET ME SEE MY TINY PROGRAM PLEASEEE OH MY FUCKING GOD

[isfjmel-phleg]

Home. It's so quiet. I would hug it (the entire concept of home) if I could.