Say you were going to a deserted island with electricity but no internet connection. What 500 gigabytes worth of data/programs/etc would you bring?Assume you’d have a computer available to you with a functioning OS of some sort
A friend of mine recently graduated with a degree in physics. After finishing school, he realized that he was not interested in academia and did not want to go to graduate school.He is interested in getting into engineering (SW or mech, most likely), or perhaps data analysis/science. He has some but not tons of programming experience. Decent amount of stats experience.I'm wondering if anyone...
Remote: Yes, strongly preferred
Willing to relocate: Unlikely
Technologies: Python, Golang, C, C++, Javascript, TensorFlow, Mathematica, HTML/CSS
Résumé/CV: Can be provided upon request
Email: [email protected]
Background in math, linguistics, and creative writing. Some machine learning and NLP. Some parsing and compiler work. Have been working remotely for the past 2.5 years for an established company as a primarily backend website and application developer. Also lead the small part time software team for an independent newspaper. Looking for an interesting and challenging position dealing with new technologies and/or research.
Anyways, for anyone in North America looking for psytrance festivals, here is a guide put together by fractaltribe:
https://www.fractaltribe.org/blog/north-american-psytrance-f...
My scope here is wide. I've enjoyed interviews with Jim Morrison, Charles Manson, and other unusual people of various unrelated walks of life. Documentaries on Jackson Polluck, Mark Borchardt, and others have been interesting as well.This link enumerates much of what I'm looking for - people or cultures which, whether because of delusion or some other cause, are entirely different from my...
There is a selection bias in the issues you speak of. Non-polarizing topics are handled swiftly, without much attention from the public spotlight. There is no point in discussing what's already agreed upon, and that's one of the more reasonable justifications of political polarization.
That said, the polarization is greater than would be optimal, so I do agree - it would be nice.
Not all wrongful doings ought be illegal.
I had never come across the word neurotypical before your comment and now, after reading the corresponding wikipedia page, I am aware that it does characterize me (i.e. "anyone who does not have autism, dyslexia, developmental coordination disorder, bipolar disorder, ADD/ADHD, or other similar conditions").
For the majority of elementary, middle, and secondary school, I fit your anecdote pretty well, minus the getting drunk part (I was young, sheltered, and without access to or interest in alcohol).
However, after sophomore year or so, I realized how much time I had wasted pushing through boring, repetitive tasks, and I grew incapable of completing assignments. This turning point left me in the position of ADHD-afflicted individuals for the final two years of high school. Call it burnout, early senioritous, or whatever - the symptoms were the same. With fear of college app rejections as my motivation (like your fear of unemployment), I couldn't bring myself to do mandatory, largely weighted assignments. They were just too boring, meaningless. Somehow I remained motivated up until then. I really don't know how, to be honest.
Out of curiosity, how would you say my realization [and subsequent drop-off in academic performance] relate to ADHD and NT?
On another note, are A DHD-afflicted individuals literally incapable of mustering the "internal whatever" you speak of? Is the ability to conjure motivation entirely absent? It's really hard to compare similarly subjective abilities, like pain thresholds and the like.
Even if this incapability is just that: a true incapability, I'm not certain that portrayal of ADHD as an affliction is a net-benefit. It seems better for people to believe in their own capabilities, even when many are literally incapable, as you say. Similarly, the belief in free will is good for people and society - even if free will is obviously nonexistent. Determinism yields higher rates of depression and discourages self-responsibility.
Watts doesn't deny the differences between those affected by ADHD and those who are not. He argues that these differences are best understood as personality traits and not products of an affliction.
This isn't a matter of ignorance, but interpretation of and reaction to scientific discoveries.