It may be, that they get so big/plentiful, that they cause the trichome cuticle to burst and then they leak resin. So harvest timing would be based upon cuticle appearanceā¦? Just riffing!!
GPT is amazing for what it is! I wish your pics were more high def. Is it the lens? I know nothing about microscopy really.
Those images are just quick EDFs I can achieve extreme definition, but I have to be really careful in the making of said image/processing. You can tell I just whipped it off carelessly if you look at the left hand side of the image thereās a ālineā down the side where the image doesnāt quite line up. It means I was a careless knob twister!
I saw so many āarticlesā that said AI was going to destroy humanity, except my dog is smarter than the machine because the dog lives in the real world. Those AI are just word salad producers with no meaning behind it. Unlike this paragraph I just typed, the AI isnāt trying to convey any meaning, just barf up words.
On AI, I think the feeling like itāll take over all these jobs is ridiculous. I think thatās kind of a fools errand to think. The thing is, if youāre pitching to a client and hand them a document where they ask any questions about it, how will anybody back it up?
Although, as a non-traditional college student (Iām 33) the AI is absolutely destroying education. I think itās important to recognize that the monetization of the internet was the first to destroy education. Itās absolutely staggering how many of these kids are cheating. Chegg is a website that provides answers to difficult problems from other users. I seriously would bet that 75% of the students have a Chegg account. Not only that, thereās an incredibly large amount of kids who constantly cheat with Chegg DURING EXAMS. I canāt count how many messages from professors to the class about finding people cheating during the exams. Kids will upload questions from the exam to Chegg during the exam from their phone.
ChatGPT has infiltrated as well. Kids are using it to write entire prompts for writing classes. I have a buddy who uses it for all of his technical writing assignments because he gets better grades doing it. Heās used it to write code for other classes as well even though he has NO idea on how to code.
Iām in mechanical engineering. For what itās worth, I really donāt want a bunch of children who cheated through college designing a car that I go 75 mph in. Cheating through college will get people killed. Engineers are fully responsible for those design mistakes.
In the end, I can only hope justice is served to those who cheat through college. Itās kind of a sad world we live in that college for high school grads is something to simply complete instead of learn. They donāt want to put the time into courses. Theyāre lazy and donāt care about the coursework. I think once they get into a job and realize that they donāt know anything, itāll start catching up. Itāll mean they spend another few years at an entry level job while the rest of us hopefully prosper doing more meaningful things. I seriously cannot stand cheaters. I report every single one of them as their actions directly reflect the value of my diploma.
I think it takes a certain person to understand what AI is and understand its limitations. Using it to do work or coursework only short changes the user. It opens this HUGE door to being exposed as a fraud really.
Agree 100%. AI canāt even drive a car yet, something we expect of 16yos. But like you said, it can mimick human language quite well, enough to write whole essays without a human noticing. I can see AI having a big impact on jobs that are all text and information based, like data entry, social media outreach
as to handing the client an AI generated document? What I see is a workforce getting slimmed down to a smaller amount of AI prompt engineers, who specialize in telling the AI what to do and verifying its output.
And remember, AI is advancing more quickly than any technology before it, and the advancements are not understandable or explainable to the average Joe. The AI weāre speaking of today is not the same AI as tomorrow. Weāre discussing AI as if itās a single piece of software here. GPT is one private companyās language based model using AI. you might need a suitably high level of education just to understand what AI is (and will become). Anyone reducing it to āa thingā is quite under water. Itās a new world of potential and we collectively have zero clue how it will eventually benefit us vs. harm us as a human society.
First there was āclippyā, then there was āwatsonā. I donāt see anything different about this iteration!
Yes but they (cheaters) are leveraging the maximal set of tools available, some using an high degree of complexity, and there is a place for that in the world.
Iām being partly facetious but, remember that the PE exam is open book, and leveraging efficient tools is the engineerās mindset. In some ways I do not care what you do in undergradā¦, as long as you can pass the PE exam legally and work under the guidance of your stateās requirements, with your ass and your E&O on the line. Let the first few years of working at a firm or company sort out the wheat from the chaff!!
I want more from you!!
You want me to expand on the tech story? Back in the day microsoft came out with this program called āclippyā that would help you write stuff in microsoft office. Turns out people would rather drop kick it across the room. True story. Then IBM made itās world dominating AI called āwatsonā. It was a total failure especially after it claimed the capital of Canada was Toronto on Jepoardy. IBM claimed it was going to diagnose cancer and all this lame shit. Itās in the garbage bin of history. So what do they do? Come out with Yet Another Lame App called āAIā that has no intelligence beyond watson. They re-brand the shit and come out looking for more of that sweet sweet VC āventure capitalā money. Just look how fast lamesuckerberg moved from his āmetaverseā to his āAIā funding. All so he can blow another 16billion on some lame concept that has already failed.
The heads seem exceptionally big in this photo.
What strain/cultivar is it?
No I meant I want more reasoning power from you! 
Letās keep it to the trichomes and feel free to post up any GPT outputs (relating to trichomes) too!
Iām on board with you. The AI isnāt actuallyā¦ intelligent. Same as how āmachine learningā isnāt AI. I think the whole thing is just another thing that media has blown up because journalists arenāt scientists or engineers. Until we can code in wisdom, none of these things are intelligent.
As for the cheaters, there is a place for that in the world but definitely not when youāre supposed to be learning the absolute fundamentals of engineering. Then again, I think the bigger problem is trusting that 20 year olds are adult enough to take on the responsibility of education. Theyāre very much children driven by their childish needs. I mean come on, I donāt really know very many people in their 30ās willing to drive 4 hours one way for pussy. You bet I know quite a few people in their 20ās that will.
A bit more on topic- Iāve always been relatively curious what changes would happen if cannabis was dried/cured in CO2. Oxidation is something that happens toā¦ well everything. I think it would be interesting to see how things would change over time without access to oxygen.
The other night I was talking with the wife of what to do with all this vaped bud we have. Iāve got a set of bubble bags and very shortly considered trying to run it for bubble hash to go in edibles. Iām curious what trichomes would look like after being vaporized. As if different parts of the trichome itself would evaporate quicker than others due to a difference in composition.
Thereās just too many possibilities!
Itās actually the opposite. I should have put some measurements on there, because the big bud has really short trichomes about 100 microns tall. Thatās why it appears the trichomes have a large cap. That is my hash plant big bud.
The interesting part is how varied the plants trichome coverage is. This 1:1 plant had the strangest trichomes on the bracts, compared to the buds themselves.
In the industry they freeze dry the weed, and store it at -25C in mylar with the oxygen removed.
Interesting. Itās 2023 and I have yet to have any real experience with commercial stuff. Other than a few vape pen cartridges that get here, thatās about it.
As much as I love the south, I think Iām exhausted of their policies. Itās such a wonderfully beautiful placeā¦ if everyone would just keep their terrible views to themselves. In a 45 minute drive to one of the few ācitiesā in the state, I see like 6 signs ranging from paid for billboards to hand painted signs where the text runs off the sign that all proclaim my place in Hell.
Nothing more welcoming than constantly being reminded that youāre wrong for being Atheist.
In the end, the progression of how we treat cannabis is crazy. Once legalization started kicking up, methods and techniques have definitely changed. Itās intense how many types of advancements weāve had only in the past decade alone. With that said, Iām curious if we will actually develop better methods in discovering what makes certain strains special. As great as posting the highest THC is on the package, we all know thereās more to it. Although, I donāt think thatāll come with industry. I think thatāll come down to the guys like you, who are doing it yourself.
Reminds me of the guy who started breeding the hottest peppers in the world. Prior to him we had, what, scotch bonnet and habaneros? Now thereās peppers out there thatāll put you in a coma if you eat the majority of it.
hah hah yahā¦ I know people in the industry. A wide array of people! All the way from personal producers to commercial megagram growers. I have noticed that personal producers are really slow to embrace change.
Iām actually Anti-Religious, a step further than athiest lol!
āGet that bible away from me, I burn bibles!ā ā me at 11 years old.
