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So, I usually don't talk about private matters on DeviantArt, but this may be important enough to warrant a quick update of sorts. Starting second of May, I will be embarking on a number of projects as part of my graduation as a master student Biomedical Engineering. These projects are a HBO internship, my actual graduation project and an "external" internship. In total, these three projects will take the rest of this and the following year. And I have no idea what to do after that. And I do not yet know how the graduation project and external internships will look like. At this point, I can't even tell you how the HBO internship will end - this is something I will be discussing tomorrow with my mentors.
Based on previous experiences though, this means that I will be spending a lot of time in the laboratory, which means that I will be having less time to doodle and draw stuff. I should still have time do so in the weekend, but laboratory work might mean I'm too "drained" to do art or that I have to spend time on future laboratory work preparation. I don't quite know how big the workload is going to be and how I will have to schedule it. I may be making this out to be worse than it actually is, but I wanted to have an explanation ready for why I won't be as active artistically in the future.
The gist of it is, my skill as an artist may atrophy a bit and larger projects (such as the ClubTeenTitansOC Round Robin page), may take a little while longer to complete. I'm still around and I definitely won't give up drawing, but I need to find time to do so which may be in short supply and the quality will probably suffer. Then again I was never that good to begin with so you might not notice the latter bit. :I
Based on previous experiences though, this means that I will be spending a lot of time in the laboratory, which means that I will be having less time to doodle and draw stuff. I should still have time do so in the weekend, but laboratory work might mean I'm too "drained" to do art or that I have to spend time on future laboratory work preparation. I don't quite know how big the workload is going to be and how I will have to schedule it. I may be making this out to be worse than it actually is, but I wanted to have an explanation ready for why I won't be as active artistically in the future.
The gist of it is, my skill as an artist may atrophy a bit and larger projects (such as the ClubTeenTitansOC Round Robin page), may take a little while longer to complete. I'm still around and I definitely won't give up drawing, but I need to find time to do so which may be in short supply and the quality will probably suffer. Then again I was never that good to begin with so you might not notice the latter bit. :I
Garbage in, garbage out - AI model collapse
I would like to preface this journal with this following statement; I am not an expert in the fields of computer intelligence. Please keep this in mind as you read this. There has been a certain something I've been wondering about ever since image prompt generator models became a thing. These models scrape the web in order to train themselves in order to improve themselves. But as more and more images are being generated by these models, what happens to the quality of these models? What I wanted to try, in essense, to take one of these models, train it on a number of images created by humans, have it output a number of images based on this initial data set based on various prompts, add this new data set to the original data set the model was trained with, use this combined data set to retrain the model, generate a new set of images, add it to the growing data set, et cetera. This, I feel, would be an adequate model of an web rapidly filling with images not created by humans, and
Thoughts on 5th edition DnD psionics
I should perhaps start with stating that this is a personal opinion piece. I do not profess to be a Dungeons and Dragons player or game master. I just like creating characters using the rules. I'm not interested in arguments. Feel free to disagree with me. But if there is something in here that makes you think "hmm, I could use this in my own games", feel free to loot it. The Mystic class, the first exploration Wizard of the Coast had into fifth edition psionics, was interesting. Unlike the core classes, it was using a point system for it's "spells", not unlike the mechanics used to the spell slot creation of sorcerers. From what I can see, the third revision ended up a half-caster class, such as the Warlock. The mechanical structures both classes follow are simular. I have not done the maths yet, but I feel that if you were to convert the Warlock's spell slots into points using the Sorcerer's 'flexible casting', you would end up with the amount of psi points a mystic has. In
Personal theories and ideas
During the club Teen Titans OC Round Robin comic, I once said that I had two plans for the plot, depending on how things went for my own character involved. Since the group closed down, any chance of continueing the comic has been shot, so I guess I might as well write down of how I wanted to influence the plot involved, what my intention for Anathema was initially, how things changed as the plot continued and such.
Anathema's initial role and survival
Including Anathema within the comic made sense from a plot point of view. Anathema's powerset is one Tim would not be able to get through his usual gene copying methods - only through the gem
24 OC facts thingy
Because I got tagged twice. :I Somehow, LilBluestem (https://www.deviantart.com/lilbluestem) managed to tag me with Ana for this without me realizing it. I guess that's something which happens if you tag people after you've submitted a thing? (Un)Fortunately, Sockless-Sheep (https://www.deviantart.com/sockless-sheep) ended up double-tagging me, so I kind of have to do this? Yeah I know I don't have to if I don't want to.
So, RavensHiddenSoul (https://www.deviantart.com/ravenshiddensoul) decided to tag me again for this, so I'll try and add another 8 acts about Ana. I'm going to run out of facts at this rate. I need more OCs. It also doesn't help that I keep forgetting what I want to write down. I:< Please don't tag me again, doing these last eight was
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Dude good luck!!! That's really awesome that you've got all these cool internships lined up and stuff, but seriously i wish you the best of luck with managing your time and everything! You're gonna do great!