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That happened to me in high school. I was in "advanced" freshman bio. Teacher gave me a B. When my parents inquired during a parent-teacher conference, she said I looked like I wasn't paying attention.

Fast forward ten years and the therapist I was seeing for seemingly unrelated reasons diagnoses me with ADHD...

Maybe that’s true but I don’t think it is. Star Wars was before my time but I still enjoyed those movies. I was a little too young for the Matrix when it came out, and when I saw it as an adult I really liked it.

Not all summer blockbusters are created equal.

There’s a picture book of Greek myths my dad would read to me from when I was a kid. It toned down the gore and rape stuff (it was still there just implied so a kid won’t get it), and made for great listening as a kid before bed.

20 years later I’m in grad school and I meet some classicists. It seems basically every one of them had that book as a kid. Maybe I missed my calling

On Achilles, wasn’t he told he a god / oracle that he can choose between going and having his name remembered as a hero for all time at the cost of dying young or staying home, living a happy life, and nobody remembering him after he passed in old age?

I’ve given that as a review to friends about movies before.

The ultimate sin is not being bad but being boring.

Nonlinear things start looking like linear things again in very high dimensions

I used Android for a long time before switching back to an iPhone. While mostly I’m happy with my iPhone, I do miss some of the UI customization features like being able to switch graphical shells like this

They shouldn’t. It makes papers less accessible which means they’re less impactful. That said, a lot of academics are good at their discipline and bad at writing.

The issue is it turns player wages into a zero sum game. In the NFL, quarterbacks have been taking up a bigger and bigger percentage of the cap, while players in positions that don’t last as long (due to injuries or just aging out) make less as a result. Now, on one hand, it makes sense because QBs have been more impactful to teams over the last 25 years, but at some level, you have to respect players like RBs who take more hits, have shorter careers, and more medical issues after retirement are getting shafted.

I moved into an apartment and kept the plan the previous resident had. They also sold us the non-xfinity router they had st a discount.

My roommate and I had spotty internet at various times of day. We measured it and it was way below what our plan claimed. The previous tenants had no such issue. Comcast refused to believe the problem was on their end and claimed my router was too old. This went on until I bought a new router just to prove a point (new router did nothing).

They finally send a repair guy out. He’s there for 5 minutes before diagnosing the problem: the cables were water logged to hell and back. He fixed it in 20 minutes and was gone.

I have no experience with this but my understanding is that they don’t go straight to wage garnishes (which I’ve heard the bureaucracy is slow to handle in situations where the garnished individual moves). That happens if you don’t meet payments as required.

Your personal one is the correct one from my perspective (as someone that knows a lot of math and is familiar with statistical mechanics as math and not physics). The ODEs that we get from classical mechanics are typically reversible: we can write down an ODE that does the same thing but backwards.

You cannot do that for the PDEs that arise in statistical mechanics and the result is the second law. These PDEs arise from approximating many copies of deterministic systems as continuous distributions of states. Entropy is not a concept that makes sense when discussing single trajectories of systems — only the macroscopic view of many copies of that system evolving according to the same dynamics.

Is the mania with this game really just that people are hungry for anything pokemon-like?

I tried the game the other day and played it for 4 hours. I knew nothing coming into it besides “pokemon with guns” and I just found it to be awful

I find it interesting that you dislike the combat in the originals but like Pokemon Stadium which only features combat (and horrid mini games).

Also I’m not really sure what exploring you’d want to do in those early games. I guess if you wanted to explore, I’d be annoyed by the constant fights, but that never occurred to me. The point of leaving a town was to get into a fight for one reason or another. That style of random fights outside of towns was also a staple of a lot of top down RPGs at the time.

I haven’t played a pokemon game in 20 years, but I think you might have been barking up the wrong tree a bit. Outside of the combat, there isn’t much to do. If you don’t like the combat, then it’s just not your game.

I like this tutorial because it doesn’t get too bogged down in abstractions and has numerous examples. When I’ve tried to learn differential geometry in the past, standard texts get very abstract very quickly and it’s hard for me to envision what the generalization is doing for me.

It turns out that PhD holders are a diverse group of people with many different personality types!

We don’t do that with all compounds though. It’s really more a cultural thing. At a certain point a pair becomes so common place that it becomes one word. Beehive, for example, isn’t semantically different from bee hive but the pairing was common enough the space got dropped.

Oh I’ll say beefs when referring to cows as a joke. TIL it’s an actual word!

It’s probably like a harmonica. You won’t sound that bad with it because it prohibits you from playing off key, but a good harmonica player knows what they’re doing.

He makes some sick beats. The overlay is just for the vibes

I used to hang out in an IRC channel, and the big CL proponent there was a Norwegian that would disappear for long periods and go boat / hang out in the woods on his own. Apparently those are common hobbies in Scandinavia but it also makes a lot of sense for a CL lover in hindsight.

Normal is just the first one you learn.

Hell, in math, normal even has multiple meanings. You have the normal distribution and surface normals for example

Kernel is an overloaded term outside of software engineering. In linear algebra it means the null space, but that has no connection I’ve ever found to kernel methods or kernels more generally in functional analysis.

I’ve been seeing a lot of D stuff lately. Is there a reason for it, or is it just the cycle of someone posts a D article, which causes someone else to get interested in D, which leads to another article post, repeat?

The advantage to the RCA one is you can scan it at any angle, but I feel like that’s a small benefit in practice

It also infamously doesn’t have a lot of standard notation.

Lawyers do. My dad is winding down his legal career but the bulk of it was spent writing corporate loan contracts. He’d constantly have clients asking him to make “small changes” to the document that either made no sense or were, in fact, large changes that would rob him of his weekend. While his specialty was niche, it was not so niche that appeasing the client for their future business was not important. His clients drove him crazy with this stuff but at least he could bill those hours.

I know less about doctors, but they certainly have people that think they know better and question their course of treatment. Just look at the pandemic and vaccine nonsense. Doctors benefit from supply and demand (artificial or otherwise) meaning that they’re basically always booked up.

Developers have neither of those privileges unless you’re an in demand consultant.

It’s been at least a decade since I’ve felt Ubisoft has had their shit together.

Eh, I think operator overloads make a lot of sense in the right context. If you created a type that’s a kind of mathematical object, you want a mathematical syntax for it. However, they are horrible when abused.

They’re ADHD, anxiety, and depression are all comorbid as well. Adderall is the best anti-anxiety med I’ve ever been on because it makes me focus on the present and not potential future negatives. Ive also benefitted from SSRIs though, they helped me in a different way.