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I just started grad school this fall after a few years away from school and man I did not realize how dire the AI/LLM situation is in universities now. In the past few weeks:

I chatted with a classmate about how it was going to be a tight timeline on a project for a programming class. He responded "Yeah, at least if we run short on time, we can just ask chatGPT to finish it for us"

One of my professors pulled up chatGPT on the screen to show us how it can sometimes do our homework problems for us and showed how she thanks it after asking it questions "in case it takes over some day."

I asked one of my TAs in a math class to explain how a piece of code he had written worked in an assignment. He looked at it for about 15 seconds then went "I don't know, ask chatGPT"

A student in my math group insisted he was right on an answer to a problem. When I asked where he got that info, he sent me a screenshot of Google gemini giving just blatantly wrong info. He still insisted he was right when I pointed this out and refused to click into any of the actual web pages.

A different student in my math class told me he pays $20 per month for the "computational" version of chatGPT, which he uses for all of his classes and PhD research. The computational version is worth it, he says, because it is wrong "less often". He uses chatGPT for all his homework and can't figure out why he's struggling on exams.

There's a lot more, but it's really making me feel crazy. Even if it was right 100% of the time, why are you paying thousands of dollars to go to school and learn if you're just going to plug everything into a computer whenever you're asked to think??

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Walk together through a gate that literally says 'Separation is an illusion'

Two seconds later:

Bestie, I don't think it's in your control anymore 😂

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the transition of him with the children and the mom to jihyun arriving in her barebones apartment totally alone

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love that he immediately proved her wrong (also this is a nice parallel to him pointing a light at her feet at night - once again when she is alone and can't take a step further he is there for her, in both cases it's not because she's incompetent it's because she's always too focused on her goals and keeps ignoring her own physical and technical limitations - her phone battery/her body - until they're not giving her a choice whereas he's very much grounded in all the little things that have to be done and kept track of )

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he's about to have the worst few months of his life

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LOVE SCOUT 나의 완벽한 비서 dir. Ham Joon Ho (2025)

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Details about Love Scout that I find interesting after the first two episodes:

The obvious female CEO/male secretary premise

The single dad apparently due to divorce (I thought maybe he was widowed, but they say this specifically)

The single dad who takes a parental leave for a whole year to help his daughter's mental health. If this is really a thing, I am amazed, but also, this leads to 4...

The father getting professionally punished for leaving the workforce as we know that women do often, maybe not so directly but I find it interesting to have him get put in that circumstance (this is before he works for her)

Female CEO is cold and perfectionist and supposedly scary, but she seems mostly grumpy and is mostly passive-aggressive toward him, but her reasoning is due to a substantive interaction they had before he works for her and I like that she has good reasons to dislike him and he understands them.

Despite being a perfectionist in her work outcome, she is a total disaster and he is brought in because of his super dad organizational skills and I find that very charming.

She is clumsy and yes I know this is an overdone charming "fault" but this lady literally hits her head on everything, can't work the door and generally is injuring herself constantly and I appreciate the level of commitment to this characterization and also that he literally baby proofs her office to keep her from injuring herself.

Male lead is super endearing as a single dad, clearly over maxed in all his responsibilities and continued in his old job where he was mistreated and now moved into this new job that he isn't particularly enthused about because it is paying him more and he can't not work since he has to feed his kid.

We get the fun classic "get the right kind of coffee by the assistant" scenes where this poor man is running around and figuring shit out and I very much rooted for him and loved the role reversal.

So yeah, this is a good start for me personally.

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Yoo Eun-ho's love language ✨

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The Great 2024 Millipede Reveal

Last year I decided to take on a temperature crochet project. This kind of project involves working one row for each day of the year using yarn colors that correspond to either the highest or lowest (or both) temperature of that day. It's most common to see blankets made this way since the end result is pretty large, but you can make other things too.

I chose to make a giant stuffed millipede! The pattern came from Projectarian and is free right here. Throughout the year I've documented my progress, which you can see in my temperature millipede tag.

Since I planned on using both the high and low temperature of each day, I picked out 20 colors for maximum variety. (Yarn: Caron Simply Soft)

And now, after a year of work and a week of putting all the pieces together: the millipede is complete!

This big boy is 90 inches/228 cm long. That's over 7 feet! It's longer than my bed. I don't even want to know how much it weighs (a lot).

Construction photos and final color statistics under the cut!

Every day last year when I did a new row of the body, I also did a row of the belly, so they were both finished at the same time.

I also made the legs throughout the year: 192 total! They were attached in a gradient from black to white to black again, and I really like how that turned out.

I waited all year to make the antennae because I wasn't sure what color to make them. In the end I went with Sage because it was the third most used color throughout the whole year, but it wasn't used at all in the head section. I'm happy with that choice, I think it pulls the whole thing together nicely!

And now some final end of year statistics:

#1 Most Used Color Award goes to our reigning champion: Pagoda! It was the high 42 times and the low 81 times, for a total of 123 days. Special mention to Kelly Green (2nd place with 103 days) and Sage (3rd place with 97 days).

#1 Least Used Color Award goes to Soft Pink! It was the low for 2 days last January and made that lovely pink stripe on the head. Special mention to Plum Perfect and Lavender Blue (tied for 2nd place with 4 days each).

Every color was used except Black and White, and honestly I'm okay with that.

Six days used the same color for both the high and the low, forcing me to pull from the inside and the outside of the same skein.

It was a fun project, but boy am I glad it's done! My next challenge is figuring out where this beastie is going to live in my room.

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not pictured: the annux of the little peninsula making such a spectacle of himself offscreen that no one is paying any attention to his cousin who is eddis and his bestie who is sounis saying all kinds of undiplomatic things about him in the corner

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I think it would be really fucking funny to write a piece of fiction set entirely in real life but using lazy fantasy worldbuilding talk. I gather coin* for the road west** - I will need it to enter the Capital.***

* two quarters and two dimes

** Interstate 64

*** Richmond, Virginia

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Have to post this favorite of mine

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this scene was absolutely delightful - once again not a word was said but the back and forth between him constantly turning to face the wall to avoid her seeing his face (because facing the wall in a crowded elevator is such a normal thing to do that it wouldn't draw attention to yourself at all, of course) and her trying different ways to get a better look at him all while they're both trying to pretend like nothing's going on was so fun to watch. such a comical situation for two grown ups to be in. also love the way this was shot/edited, i'm really liking the acting/directing combo in this first episode

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last time I saw this gorgeous man on my screen, it was in City Hunter(2011) and boy, oh boy, he broke my heart in that. I don't think I've recovered completely lol so it's good to see him like this now, in this healing romance. He's gonna heal me!! hahaha

I already have HUGE respect for his character because of how good of a father he is and how loyal he was to a company that treated him like trash, and that he worked his ass off till literally the last possible moment. I was seething whenever he was humiliated or sidelined at the office. He didn't deserve any of that.

Hahahaha I like this twist. I knew he was gonna be her secretary, but I didn't know they'd start off as professional rivals, as she was recruiting someone from his company and he was trying to keep him there. In the end, they both got played.

Both seem to have been hurt in the past (ain't that always the case?) so I'm guessing getting to know each other, and being there for each other is what's gonna heal both of them while developing feelings. At the moment, I can see why she'd fall, and very easily at that lol but it'd be interesting to see how he falls. I'm not saying she doesn't have good qualities, it's just that I think her walls are a bit more up than desired, and her attitude is especially icy.

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