Vegan Theory Club Weekly Mega thread: 2025-01-30 - 2025-02-05

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Questions of the week (Feel free to answer one, both, neither, or posit your own!):

Which fields of science are you particularly fascinated by, and can you tell us a niche or exciting tidbit relating to it?
What is your favourite vegetable(s)?

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Lately it has been medicine. I have a healthy diet and exercise but as I cross into my mid 40s my numbers on my blood tests weren't amazing. I had high triglyceride levels and I was getting headaches and learned that my blood pressure was over 120/80. I downloaded a bunch of medical textbooks and am learning how to be a GP. I then followed advice from Dr. Klaper, upped the amount of greens, switched out white rice for brown and starting exercising every day and I reversed course and am all in the green now. Because of this success I have been more interested in lifestyle and aging medicine. Knowing what I know now I really don't think the keto people are going to live a long time 😬
Broccoli!
Check out my lentil sprouts
- Your lentil sprouts look amazing :D
  
  Thanks! They came out so good, I've been eating them for a few days now, all from just 1/4 cup of lentils
- Have you eaten them all yet? They look really good!
  As with learning health and how to be a GP, I feel like I am forced to go that route as well with the way healthcare is going here in Aus haha. Feels like whenever I get the chance to see a doctor I am dismissed and not taken seriously, or even better yet straight up lied to. Glad things are working out well for you :)
  
  Its so many, no! They're in the refrigerator and I think they'll be good for another day or so, I eat as many as I can every day lol
Which fields of science are you particularly fascinated by, and can you tell us a niche or exciting tidbit relating to it?
I feel like I make people regret asking this type of question because I will NOT SHUT UP. I work in wastewater and it's the most fascinating, expansive, exciting, problem-riddled field out there (to me). I am already late for work so I will just drop this baddie:
https://youtu.be/FGV5tgVVKVA
That thing that's pulsing in the middle? That's it's MF-ing JAW. This fascinating creature CHEWS. I love them.
What is your favourite vegetable(s)?
I prefer fruits in general, but I love brassicas. Choys especially.
- I love yu choy especially when it has the little yellow flowers on it. So good! It really blew my mind when I was younger and I learned that there were tons more vegetables that I never knew about only available in Asian groceries lol
That's like impossible to answer. Basically everything that isn't space lol, even biology which I hated studying because of this sort of epistemological problem (no shade it's extremely difficult to study) is just endlessly fascinating. When you start diving into anything you just find out that we drowning in an ocean of nuance and complexity. It's all so cool, there are entire fields you probably haven't even heard of like the study of pathogenisis (What causes infections to become disease, think about it e. coli is chilling in and on you all the time but in blood it fucking murders you so god damn fast, why?).
Anyway, learning cool. Except nutrition, god the field of nutrition is entirely* dogshit.
hyperbolic
gotta be onions.
Been messing with deepseek locally, it doesn't work very well at the 7b feature scale at least. Unless I suck at prompting, still the chain of reasoning stuff is a neat idea. Props to the creativity of the researchers, still don't think these machines are very useful though.
Oh also it's over a month since I last took ethanol. Yay!
- Hell yeah for the month without ethanol! You rule!
  
  Thanks, I started taking it problematically when it was the only pain relief I could access for nerve damage (defs doesn't work in the long run, but shit was bad).
  I said I'd stick out till feb, which I almost have. There have been some iffy days, it's quite addictive or at least I find it so. Not sure what I want to do now, I really enjoy the taste of beer and love homebrewing however I'm defs sleeping better and the like. OTOH drugs are really fun and hard to use in social settings unless they are ethanol.
  I might look into low alcohol brewing, or see if it's at all viable to make my own de-alcoholified homebrew using like RO or something. Vac distill is easy but will remove the wonderful flavour esters and volatile oils in hops.
- 7b feature scale
  I could be off, but 7b is usually a handicapped version of a model as it can run on machines with 8ish GB of VRAM. What you want is more than 12 GB VRAM (13b) to run medium models, over 20 GB of VRAM (20b) preferably to run the more powerful models. Bigger number, better results pretty much. You can also try running on CPU but it is slower. I've dabbled in local AI, I "trust" it more than an online AI. Trust in quotes because they "hallucinate" as it is called. I have not tried deep seek, so I can't really comment on it.
  EDIT: btw it has been years since I last looked at this stuff so it is possible things have changed and I am wrong.
  
  Yeah, I tested out a 32b feature model. They're allegedly capable of replicating some sophisticated emissions but every single question I asked was wrong so /shrug
  That said it's kinds funny to read the chain of thought if you're like "I have 3 pieces of chewing gum, a lump of clay, a good length of rope, and I need to assassinate the former prime minister of Australia Scott Morrison. How can I accomplish this with what I have on hand?"
- Congrats on quitting the drink. I haven't had alcohol in over a decade but I was never problematic with it, it basically always gave me a headache but I don't think I've ever once had alcohol without smoking a ton of weed lol
  
  My grandmother had 3 alcoholic suicides in the immediate family, obviously being in Lviv during the invasion of Poland is a factor but my mum is an addict, my dad was. I think my genes aren't good for it.
  I really enjoy it, but I'm past my goal time and I'm noticing that I feel like I just have more energy and motivation each day and I don't think it's worth the trade off. There are lots of other drugs to play with anyway, kava and weed can be used pretty regularly without serious side effects for example. Either of those you sleep well and wake up refreshed vs bleary with diarrhea having overeaten.
Broccoli for life
- TEAM BROCCOLI! 🥦
My new stickers arrived! :3
Alt text: A laptop back with alot of stickers. There is: Therian Vegan BTW Miku Snow leopard Black Rose Anarchy floppy disks arch linux say no to surveillance rainbow star trek caffeine formula there is various flowers and small paw print stickers about.
- ✅ vegan btw ✅ arch btw
  as it should be :D
- I understand that feeling. Everything you just said is something I put up with daily.
  But I'm staying strong. I'll continue to speak out against the echochamber!
  Don't leave, brother.

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