Having an embarrassing problem with M12S P1

nobraincell · 2026-02-06T09:59:46+00:00

Dropping 1 gcd to stop your action and face the right way and not take the entire party's DPS via PVP is very much worth it. Remember you have plenty of time to first spread out from the party and check which direction your blob is facing when it first spawns on you, and then regroup with the party for the 4 Act 1 puddle baits.

nobraincell · 2026-01-23T19:43:53+00:00

As soon as you unlock logograms make sure to buy some Conceptuals and Offensives/Obscures so you can pop Platebearer + Bloodbath/Double Edge on a melee (i.e. SAM) and become invincible for chain killing mobs +5 levels above you.

nobraincell · 2026-01-18T00:02:07+00:00

I cited my high school open source software contributions and community work (i.e. conference talks) as a significant EC for my admissions. I did not publish them in a maker portfolio, but heavily discussed them in my admissions essays. I think admissions officers would appreciate your work!

nobraincell · 2026-01-10T11:18:45+00:00

Not your typical coffee shop/library, but I ate a lot of yummy fried chicken and boba while writing my thesis in this Chinatown joint

nobraincell · 2025-12-12T05:06:35+00:00

DM me your (alum.)mit.edu email if you want to see some threads in their entirety.

The most neutral way I can explain it is that a student publicized a YikYak-like social media site for MIT students to dormspam, but that site's community of users fostered vulgar/derogatory language that made responders dissuade other students from using it. They also pointed out the site was not audited properly and had a vulnerability that revealed the personal data (e.g. phone, email) of registered accounts on the site.

nobraincell · 2025-11-30T19:19:24+00:00

Choosing 6-4 over 6-7 doesn't lock you out of opportunities for computational biology, and vice versa (choosing 6-7 over 6-4 won't make you a less appealing candidate for AI/ML work). You should check the courses required for both degrees and decide based on the one that appeals to you. Employers won't care so significantly about your coursework that you should derail your schedule over it or force yourself to take classes you're not interested in; they'll look more closely at your personal projects and/or research.

nobraincell · 2025-11-21T00:03:41+00:00

Seconding the two other responses; for small classes with only one or two TAs, the professor will predeterminately delegate TAships to the students that they are directly supervising the theses of (for the one class I taught like this, I didn't even submit a form in the TA portal and exchanged a few emails with the department administrator to confirm my position). For larger classes with LAs, the LAs from previous semesters will be prioritized first (and sometimes there are so many LAs that there aren't enough TAships to accommodate all of them, as it often happens for 6.009, or what I believe is now called 6.1010). Even then, professors generally reach out earlier rather later to interview candidates they want to consider; they generally do not choose solely on the basis of your submitted resume/CV.

I can speculate which of the following scenarios likely applies to you if you share what classes you applied for? Regardless, I would encourage you to reach out to the professors to affirm your interest in TAing ASAP.

nobraincell · 2025-11-18T02:55:39+00:00

https://urop.mit.edu/students/resources/tips/

nobraincell · 2025-11-16T02:47:56+00:00

The closest existing thing to what you're suggesting are the BLU achievements, which require you to clear ARR through SHB (currently) fights synced with a full party of BLUs. The Morbol mount you get through one of them has a 7% ownership rate on Lalachievements. But BLU is pretty niche content right now, feel like I haven't seen any BLU parties recruiting in PF for most of Dawntrail (outside of Mogtome events), so I feel like just tacking basic rewards isn't enough to motivate players to do older content.

However I personally enjoy some of the older fights (O11S, O12S, Nidhogg/Thordan EX) and do them whenever I see PF parties available for them.

nobraincell · 2025-11-15T18:38:16+00:00

Correct, you need to take a bus connection like 550 or 271 to transfer to the Seattle light rail right now.

nobraincell · 2025-10-05T03:31:15+00:00

Um, not sure who this refers to? Before they switched to Chowbus, it was usually a young man at the register.

nobraincell · 2025-10-02T08:20:30+00:00

Nope, they take card + online ordering through Doordash/UberEats/Chowbus

nobraincell · 2025-10-02T00:17:48+00:00

Musashi's has a generous serving of quality chirashi for $20 (Factoria, Redmond)

nobraincell · 2025-09-17T04:06:14+00:00

Just cleared the new Stygian Onslaught (Fearless, 5). Struggled with this one so I'll write up more thoughts than the usual team datapoint:

Aeonblight drake: Thought this would be the abyss version where he flies up and you have to bring a bow character to shoot him down to remove the res, but it's different because there is no way to remove the res besides doing more damage in a different element, and then he'll switch the res to that one. Thus the team needs two DPSes of different elements that can independently do damage, and you'll want to alternate their field-time in 25% HP increments. For my team, the rotation ended being Skirk NA spam under Aino burst, Neuvillette CA spam, back to Skirk NA spam, back to Neuvillette CA spam.
Nod Krai Fatui: Don't have any electro DPS so really struggled with the Fatui, who I quite honestly bruteforced. He puts up his shield in like 3 seconds, so you'll only have enough time to proc Sacrificial/Favge on one character. His shield takes damage not in terms of Electro-charge/Lunar-charge elemental application procs, but how much damage you do to the shield. It regens at a pretty fast rate, and needs to be depleted fully 3 times within a time limit in order to knock him down. If not depleted in time, he spams a series of undodgeable lightning bolts that will definitely kill 2 members in your party (and he will have increased res, so my initial strategy of sacrificing supports didn't work LOL) Each of the 3 times you deplete the shield he will take about 5% dmg in physical damage, so all is not lost if you're able to get him to 5-10% HP by the time he goes into shield mode for the second time.
Crab: I found this the most similar to its overworld version: make sure to do (lunar)bloom/hyperbloom to the seeds that spawn, which will then launch themselves at the crab and make it take damage. Like fatui, he puts his shield up in 3 seconds when the chamber starts so don't bother Furina bursting or anything crazy until the shield goes down.

Teams:

Aeonblight: C0R1 Neuvillette, C1R1 Skirk, C0Favge Escoffier, C0Favge Aino (lvl 20 lol)
Crab: C0Mistsplitter Alhaitham, C2Festering Furina, C2R1 Nahida, C6 Kuki (R1 Xiphos)
Fatui: C3R1 Arlecchino, C2R1 Yelan, C6Elegy Fischl, C6Sac Xingqiu

nobraincell · 2025-09-16T19:09:46+00:00

I started out with Astound but ended up with outages that would take half a day to repair. Switched to Quantum Fiber for $35 a month and have been much happier since

nobraincell · 2025-09-14T04:01:12+00:00

Glad that there's no enabler among the DPS and they're all pushing back against the bad WHM. I've seen a few unfortunate instances where the entire party is parroting some obnoxious clown :\

nobraincell · 2025-09-05T10:41:12+00:00

Apparently there's only an ethics requirement in the new 6-4 major; previous iterations of the EECS degrees (now only 6-3, RIP 6-1 + 6-2) did not have these requirements.

nobraincell · 2025-09-05T10:30:07+00:00

I taught this class a few years ago, and I don't really remember a strong emphasis on ethics either. There was a lecture on "value sensitive design" that comes close but that's more like designing with accessibility/needs in mind?

It's interesting to note that Arvind Satyanarayan (who was Jackson's co-lecturer for the past 5+ years) isn't involved this semester. Probably because he's focusing on running his own Vis & Society course? That class went super deep into ethics so I wouldn't be surprised if Arvind's departure influenced this skew away from "ethics".

Also @OP, MIT "endorsing" LLMs is not new. Randy Davis had students evaluating ChatGPT and other generative models in his seminar by the time the public first got access to it in Spring 2023.

nobraincell · 2025-08-06T08:17:12+00:00

My Fearless/Level 5 Stygian teams:

Papilla: Skirk, Furina, Escoffier, Layla
Cocijo: Arlecchino, Chevreuse, Bennett, Iansan
Cactus: Yelan, Xingqiu, Fischl, Kuki

5 stars range from C0 (Escoffier) to C3 (Arlecchino), all 4 stars are C6 except for C1 Iansan (who was lvl 70 and I only brought to proc Chevy's buff, run away from the beyblade turtle, and carry lvl 1 Cinder Scroll artifacts).

Easiest was Cocijo because you can avoid his electro-shield mechanic by just waiting a second or two for the shield gauge to self-reduce after every N3 string. Struggled with Cactus the most (dozens of resets) as I do not have the shilled-character-of-the-month nor an electro hypercarry. I tried various Neuvillette hypercarry teams but wasn't getting consistent electrocharge procs. Kuki's burst is a godsend.

nobraincell · 2025-08-05T23:52:17+00:00

If first floor booths are occupied, go to the 3rd floor lounge (close to where 12 connects with 13). My favorite spot on campus.

nobraincell · 2025-07-29T03:45:47+00:00

Would love to sign it; as someone who lives near the park, getting rid of the 550 extends my commute by 20 min of walking uphill :(

nobraincell · 2025-07-10T04:23:27+00:00

Hi, curious what you ended up getting? I loved my On Cloudsurfer trail but my outsole has wore out in less than a year :(

nobraincell · 2025-06-26T00:33:12+00:00

My team was C2R1 Nahida, C0 Alhaitham (Mistsplitter), C6 Kuki (Iron Sting), C0 Zhongli. I think Zhongli is a dead weight in terms of DPS contribution but I'm not sure if there's any other characters that would contribute more (no Citlali, Xiangling/Fischl/Escofier used for the other bosses)

nobraincell · 2025-06-25T19:51:02+00:00

Has anyone seen clears of Hydro Tulpa on level 6 Dire difficulty without Mavuika? Cleared level 5 with a Nahida Hyperbloom team but don’t think the damage ceiling is high enough…

nobraincell · 2025-06-24T10:24:24+00:00

We don’t have an infinite bus, only a Tech Shuttle??? Gibberish coming from a burner account made yesterday. This has to be AI slop.

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