OverReactionGuy
Verified Sanity
When the topic finally returns to the fic, math returns with avengance.
Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard? (Worm/MGLN) (Complete)
- Thread starter CmptrWz
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FORTRAN is for scientists.
COBOL is for business managers.
BASIC is for students.
APL is for martians.
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- Yes
Good. Although people cheating on programing or math tests don't scare me as much as civil engineering tests.
- Location
- Sea of Quanta
Well, we have at least tried хД
I just realised, Piggot is still in MS quarantine. She'll probably need another time-out to deal with all the revelations.
- Location
- Sea of Quanta
Hell, I almost forgot about her. Add in her hangover on top of all those reveals. "Oof" seems appropriate.
- Location
- USA
I beg to differ. Piggot is probably going to be informed of some of what happened, allowing her to begin processing things before she gets out. Not everything, of course, and she still has some time off that she requested to be used after her screening. She won't be coming back in top gear, but she'll probably be better off than she's been in years. Relaxation combined with things improving in the bay, after all.
- Location
- Georgia
For a relevant observation to the story: Taylor is a lousy teacher because it comes too easily to her. Many of the problems Missy ran into in her training came from Taylor being too good at the math, so much so that she couldn't break things down enough for Missy to get. This is part of the reason it is said that to truly master a skill, you need to teach it, preferably to the stupidest person you can find, as it forces you to break the process down and really examine every part.
This is a common problem with prodigies, and is the detail that makes Severus Snape more believable to me: He was experimenting and modifying potions early enough in his studies that, while he is an excellent craftsman, he is a horrifically underqualified instructor.
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
Not to mention that Snape has zero patience for children and zero tolerance for mistakes that are going to happen with new students. He doesn't explain how to do anything or more importantly why to do it. Let alone what the consequences for doing something wrong might be. Instead it's "The instructions are on the board, get to work". Which also ignores the fact that said instructions will be obscured by smoke from the fires under each cauldron. Oh, and he blindly assumes everyone has read not only the text book assigned for the year from cover to cover, but also the text books for later years and advanced reading which are not covered by the class or listed in the class's book list.
There's a reason why martial arts styles that use a Dan ranking system require you to actually be able to teach before you can achieve master status. Which is, I think, 4th dan or greater.
That was bad, and you should feel bad.
- Location
- Sea of Quanta
I should. Especially since, believe it or not, that was completely unintentional. I don't know whether to be impressed or disappointed in myself.
Agree on the teaching though. I think everything runs on magic in Mid, no ? Getting some teaching books from there might help Taylor out a bit xD
Then she failed you.
You only really know the material well enough to pass the class if, and only if, you were able to pass a minimum of three tests at random points throughout the school year where she wiped your calculator and let you reprogram it from scratch.
To be clear, I never deserved to pass calculus.
- Location
- Finland
I think I can answer that question.
"...acting oddly, jerking in changing groups."
And in Chapter 64 - June 3, 2011
When you try to control all arthropods on a planet sized object that's teeming with them without sufficient hardware, one should expect some issues.
Alert: Please try to stay on topic. Please.
You heard the mod, no more math talk
- Location
- Georgia
While she is certainly bigger on the inside, it is perhaps unwise, or at the least impolite, to describe a lady in such terms =P
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
Hive: Baka... did you just call me fat?
M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
- Location
- Sector 2814
Hive: Hal Junior, set up. Hammer mode, nanotech disassembler system active.
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
So HH:ES joins the esteemed ranks of the likes of TV in the category of "Threads which math is banned in."
Well... given that hive includes a significant fraction of QA, and QA is continent sized...
Edit: Entities are stated to be gestalt erm entities; I wonder if the 'slave circuit' thar Hive has been removing is where Scion exists, or if there's a different part of a shard that links it to the gestalt?
Edit: Entities are stated to be gestalt erm entities; I wonder if the 'slave circuit' thar Hive has been removing is where Scion exists, or if there's a different part of a shard that links it to the gestalt?
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Jordisk
<Unverified N00B>
- Location
- Blind Eternities
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
The "Slave Circuit" is the connection to the network, the permissions for the shard, the limitations applied by the entities (Such as "Can't precog entities, can't access Entities' worlds"), and so on. Zion, and Eden, could likely be considered only a single shard each, that shard being something designed specifically to adjust the Slave Circuits. This shard would likely have aspects of Shaper, Administrator, and Broadcast. Of course, there would be other shards that are optimized for storing memory and are used for that, so instead of the Zion Shard-manipulator Shard remembering, it queries the memory storage shard(s) for whatever it needs. Being able to identify which shard is which shard it needs to access is probably some functionality from David/Eidolon's shard, the High Priest.
Neruz
Rogue Spiderbanana
- Location
- The Land of Fire and Poison
The 'slave circuit' is Queen Administrator, that is why QA is the last shard to be deployed and must be crippled in the process; once an Entity has dumped the majority of its shards it doesn't need a fully dedicated 'slave circuit' shard like QA to manage and control the remaining vital shards, but if QA were left at full capacity she could potentially grant hosts the power to control shards, which is unacceptable.
Hive has eaten a bunch of other shards too, and stored large amounts of refined materials from them.
So it is safe to say that Hive is massive enough to legitimately have her own significant gravity well; Hive is so fat that she could hold minor celestial bodies in orbit if she wanted to.
Carl Fox
Only Immortal For A Limited Time
- Location
- Doctors Inlet, FL
Hive has eaten a bunch of other shards too, and stored large amounts of refined materials from them.
So it is safe to say that Hive is massive enough to legitimately have her own significant gravity well; Hive is so fat that she could hold minor celestial bodies in orbit if she wanted to.
Hey, now, no fat shaming the very hungry Unison Device.
M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
- Location
- Sector 2814
Actually, apparently most of what Hive harvests from the shards she turns around and makes core augmentation units out of. They are, apparently, the only source of some of the needed materials, hence Taylor and others only getting units after Hive has nommed another shard (most recently Shaper). So Hive isn't sitting on a stockpile of former-shard.
Neruz
Rogue Spiderbanana
- Location
- The Land of Fire and Poison
That's only certain exotic materials that cannot easily be sourced from other locations, the vast majority of a shard is made out of some kind of organosilicate which Hive has been storing in (presumably) extradimensional pockets.
We're talking about literally continent-sized organisms, Devices and whatnot are minuscule in comparison; they cannot possibly be consuming more than a tiny fraction of the total materials that compromise a shard.
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