NielsBohron

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[โ€“] NielsBohron 11 points 23 hours ago

It does get legitimately used both ways. In a chemistry textbook, seeing it written as "unionized" is pretty common, and wiktionary says that the hyphenated form is predominantly used in contexts where it might be confused with "having a union" (which matches with my experience).

However, I still assert that it's just not a word chemists use that much as there are other, less ambiguous synonyms available.

[โ€“] NielsBohron 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm an AI/comp-sci novice, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but does running the program locally allow you to better control the information that it trains on? I'm a college chemistry instructor that has to write lots of curriculum, assingments and lab protocols; if I ran deepseeks locally and fed it all my chemistry textbooks and previous syllabi and assignments, would I get better results when asking it to write a lab procedure? And could I then train it to cite specific sources when it does so?

[โ€“] NielsBohron 2 points 1 day ago

Plus, they are amazing as mixers, so you can always make them alcoholic

[โ€“] NielsBohron 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Jims are such fucking beauties

[โ€“] NielsBohron 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

See, I'm a chemist, but I also believe in the power and importance of organized labor, so I still read that as unionized.

Plus, I think most chemists would say "neutral" or use protonated/deprotonated rather than un-ionized

[โ€“] NielsBohron 21 points 1 day ago

I thought for sure this was an Onion article

[โ€“] NielsBohron 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Another fun fact: this song is based on a centuries-old folk song called The Maid Freed from the Gallows that has been sung in one form or another by everyone from Lead Belly to Bob Dylan to Led Zeppelin

[โ€“] NielsBohron 5 points 1 day ago

Well, kinda. There's evidence of pretty much all of Lead Belly's best known songs being common folk songs sung throughout the Mississippi Delta, but Lead Belly has the first recorded version of them.

 

More of the incomparable Huddy Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly

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connection: another quirky cover of a popular song

[โ€“] NielsBohron 1 points 1 day ago

Alternative vampiric selections considered include:

 

I guess we're doing vampires now?

 

Cennection: Vampire Weekend is a very preppy band, in this case singing about seeing a girl out and about on a university campus (super preppy).

[โ€“] NielsBohron 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I put mine in 8.5 years ago, and with a large dog, 2 cats, and 3 kids, it's held up remarkably well. The only problem I've run into is some of the tongue-in-groove connections have pulled apart over time creating small (maybe 1/4") gaps, but the planks themselves have been great. And frankly, that is probably a combination of installation error (by me) and us living in a pretty harsh environment with a huge number of freeze-thaw cycles and lots of snow every year (with a shitty insulation job in our crawlspace).

[โ€“] NielsBohron 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Is that treated/engineered bamboo laminate flooring? I think I have the exact same stuff from Home Depot.

 

Connection: Drop

 

Connection: mic(s)

 

connection: Fu

[โ€“] NielsBohron 1 points 5 days ago

That's a great connection! Next time, you can post a link in !connectasong and keep the game going. Just make sure to sort by "New" to make sure you're connecting to the most recent post. Welcome to the community!

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Connection: The Black Keys cover was my favorite Black Keys song until I found out that The Sonics do it so. much. better. And almost 40 years earlier.

And yes, I know that The Sonics version was a cover, too. But The Sonics completely reimagined an early doo-wop song as a garage rock/proto-punk masterpiece and the Black Keys version sounds almost exactly like The Sonics but somehow sorely lacking in both tone and soul.

 

Connection: I first heard "1, 2, 3, 4" by Feist in an Apple iPod commercial, and the Gorillaz' "Feel Good, Inc." was also featured in an iPod commercial.

 

Another song that resulted in a lawsuit and the artist giving cowriting credits to another band (the other band in this case was The Rolling Stones, IIRC)

 

Connection: Stranglers

 

PARTY PEOPLE!!!!

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