What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics?

Re:What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics? by JabavuAdams on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:14PM (#13278484)

It jives with what I've observed the grad students I've known going through.

I think it's important to frame oneself as a mental athlete. Olympic athletes don't exert themselves for 20 hours and then get 4 hours sleep and expect any kind of peak performance. You need sleep, you need a mix of focused effort, and unfocused consolidation / inspiration time, etc.

Programmers and students have a tendency to ignore lessons about training and peak performance that are well understood by those in physical sports.

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Re:What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics? by vecter on Thursday December 29, 2016 @02:15PM (#13279306)

Irrelevant grammatical nitpick: I think the word you're looking for is "jibe", not "jive". From M-W: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jibe

    verb: to be in accord

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Re:What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics? by whorleater on Thursday December 29, 2016 @06:37PM (#13281196)

Weird, I've always heard "jive" informally used as "to be in accord", and it seems like it's commonly held slang: http://americanenglishdoctor.com/wordpress/jive-and-jibe

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Re:What Does Any of This Have to Do with Physics? by JabavuAdams on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:10AM (#13284403)

Thanks.

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