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You comically self contradict yourself. If it was lack of ideas to invest in that drove holding of cash at negative interest rates, then what stops the european from just buying us stocks? US collapse is inevitable, until its NOT…
I'm sorry this is happening to you and I know all too well how distressing it is to be a compassionate onlooker in an event like this.
Something similar (although likely less severe) happened to my wife in a not too distant past. More or less from one day to the next she started feeling very very unsafe, thought people were after her and conspiring to take away our child. She started writing protective symbols on the walls and doors of our house and felt she was talking to ghosts. I would find her yelling at passersby from our flat window. No one in her life, including me, felt like a safe person anymore.
To me it felt like this foreign power had invaded our life and started ripping everything to shreds. I honestly have never been so stressed in my life.
Luckily we did find our way out of it. My wife was on ADHD medication at the time (dexamfetamine) and we had been going through a rough time our marriage. Covid had just happened and we had a 3yo son. I think by the time she started developing delusions she probably hadn't slept well for months.
Her mother came to live with us for a couple of weeks, we stopped the dexamfetamine and we focused on just making our life as low stress and loving as possible.
I am honestly so grateful that we managed to navigate our way out of this together and that we are fine now. I can't give you much by way of advice. The position you are in is unfair and whatever you do to help your friend is commendable.
One thing I realized is that once the human mind is stressed enough it becomes a sort of runaway nuclear reactor, stuck in a cycle of every more stressful thoughts. The kind of behaviors you will see in that situation are hard to witness, and the best thing you can do as a friend is to provide safety, even when the other person sees the opposite. Living together with this person might not be a workable or safe situation for you or for him, and unfair as it might be you might end up in a position where you have to make this call. Your friend might see this as a betrayal. Be compassionate to yourself and your friend in this moment. Know you are trying to make the best out of an impossible situation. Understand you are not in control and that you are afraid to do the wrong thing and that the fact that you feel this way is what makes you a good friend. Best of luck!
Aah so this is how we got the medieval version of still D.R.E.
This would surely benefit from some comparative analysis of wikipedia scrubbing prior to previous vp picks to establish wether it is a good indicator
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IN many ways this is just another perspective on the need for taking calculated risks. I think this becomes even more interesting when you add the factor time into it. I usually play 3+2 type games where each player gets 3 minutes on the clock plus 2 for each additional move. In this kind of setup i've found that playing more risky aggressive moves on the one hand exposes you to make blunders, but it also gives you the initiative and causes the opposing player to spend more compute time checking possible variations.
My son was diagnosed with diabetes about 4 weeks ago. The first two weeks we were measuring him through fingersticks multiple times daily. Now we have the cgm it has become so much easier to manage his condition.
The interesting thing to observe is to see in real time the metabolic spectrum of the foods we consume. Liquid sugars cause glucose spikes within 6 minutes. Solid carbs 30-120 minutes depending on carb complexity etc. Proteins 3h+. Fats can be six hours or more.
The thing is there are a variety of insulins available, some of which are rapid acting and others act more slowly. So to keep my son in range with multiple daily injections you are playing this game of giving him the right mix of foods where his carb digestion matches the profile of his rapid acting insulin.
Pizza is an interesting case study. It is by far the most carb rich deal we've tried and it is almost impossible to manage. With so many carbs it's hard to get the insulin dosage right, and once he is high, once he is coming down from that the digestion of the fats kicks in and he remains high through the night.
I think it would be a great thing for people to wear even just for a couple of weeks.
Ive just finished The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. I cannot praise it highly enough.
We have a no ipad policy around our house. I have khan academy kids on my phone and i use this in the rare occasions my son really needs to be kept busy for a while. We even stopped tv entirely for a while. Made the house a much calmer place.
You see, screens are really great at capturing kids attention and it will give you a moment of peace, but you pay the price the moment you want to turn the tv off to leave the house/eat dinner.
The worst part of it is that screens allow you to be emotionally quite detached from each other.
I think the educational value of an ipad is also very much exagerated. Learning for young children is really a full body experience and i dont think an ipad is a value add until much later in life (possibly never).
That said, parenting is not something you figure out before you start really. Kids will grow, you will grow and the balance will constantly shift. The most important thing is giving your children plenty of thoughtful attention throughout life..
This skepticism absolutely baffles me. Have you been using gpt-4? To unlock gpt for real you have to be careful to prompt it correctly and find a way to improve the feedback loop for improving code. It is only a matter of time until tools arrive that integrate this into your development environment and give it access to test/console output such that it can suggest code and iterate over the result. It's not perfect yet, but I'm seriously feeling the nature of our work will change fundamentally over two years already.
On a related note. Problem decomposition is also the reason why we should all be worried about AI, even with it's current capabilities. After all, every nefarious goal, once decomposed into smaller units, is not necessarily recognizably nefarious any longer. The challenges of organized crime are more in the logistics and HR departments more than anywhere else and their problems, once framed in that context, won't make any AI suspicious, however much training openAI does on its LLM.
Yeah this is the future right here. A couple of iterations over this paradigm and we can all go to the beach afaic. Software engineering in our day and age is 1% deep problem solving (coming up with novel algorithms, for example) and 99% writing glue code. The real problem with the 99%, and the reason we get paid what we do is that this requires a lot of thoughtful problem decomposition. Once the problem is adequately decomposed it becomes a ticket that can be picked up, and further decomposition follows in situ.
What we should try to do is write a tool which can provide a sort of chatGPT integrated ide where a dev can
- specify an overall goal of varying complexity. - ask chatGPT to split this up in smaller subtasks - iterate down the tree until chatgpt decides a task is specific enough for implementation to start - ask chatGPT to write tests verifying task completion - then initiate a feedback loop where gpt can suggest code, run the tests (in a containerized setting), evaluate if output is as expected, and amend changes - once tests pass, commit, move onto the next ticket.
Programming then becomes a process of guided decomposition with humans mainly guiding the process along.
“ Despite being referred to as a "war" there were no casualties on either side, aside from the pig.”
Perhaps you could go a step further and say that, whatever the regime, these institutions that decide who is healthy and who is sick, who is sane and who is insane, can never be neutral. They are always also instruments of (social) control. Michel Foucault is probably the go-to guy if this topic interests you[1].
Given this is goods and not people the more relevant metric is not the average speed of the carts but the volumetric flow rate at each of the nodes in this system.
He has one on the combustion engine
This reminds me of something I saw on TV once where a farmer was feeding his chickens lots of spicy red peppers. Made the yolk a deep red and apparently spicy as well.
Yes. In fact it seems i gravitate to this state at regular intervals. To some degree i have dealt with it by accepting it as part of the struggle of life. Also i found that just as much as i gravitate to this state there is also something within me that unlocks it and eventually puts me back on top. When my personal life is draining i am at a higer risk. When there is low psychological safety in my team, im also at a higher risk. Jogging helps, even the smallest run will do. Don’t worry, you will find your way out and perhaps learn a thing or two about yourself. It taught me not to judge others for being unproductive but just be a helpful uplifting colleague whenever i get the chance. We all struggle at times.
I get into ruts like this several times a year. Luckily with age I learned that before i start questioning myself too deeply I try these things first.
- Try going to bed early every night for a week. Going to bed early simply means early enough so you can wake up at 7.30 in the morning without the need of an alarm. - Find a form of exercise you like and do the absolute minimal amount of it needed to get some noticeable positive benefit. I have done 20k runs at a decent pace at various occasions, but I find that I can get 90% of the health benefit by doing a light 20m jog. The trick is making it so untaxing, and so easy to simply do that you can manage to do it repeatedly without relying on too much motivation or inner drive. - Try and give some extra attention to what you ingest into your body. Make some time to cook a meal for yourself (and some friends) and enjoy it. - Spend some time thinking about the things you take pleasure in and engage in those things. Have a glass of wine, smoke a cigarette and find someone interesting to talk to, put some music on, whatever it is just don't overthink it al so much.
With some time you might find you forgot all about this rut, and if it persists, maybe it's true you are not pursuing the right things, but hey that's also just part of the journey of life and you are a student so you should be examining these things right now.
I am absolutely fascinated with airships. Im imagining a future where most building construction is moved into large factories (preferably near harbors) and lifted on site in house size chunks by a fleet of airships. Imagine the environmental and cost gains.
I've tried a couple. In the end what worked best was some zinc oxide adhesive tape (the type you'd find in a first aid kit). Mind you, the point is not to forcefully tape your mouth shut abduction style. All you need is a small 2cm*1cm strip accross the center of your mouth. Breathing through your nose is the body default.
That said switching to nose breathing is not as easy for everyone. Chronic mouthbreathers often have clogged sinuses and a sensitivity to allergens. Making sure the air quality in your bedroom is good helps and there is a ton of other things you can do. Do checkout 'the oxygen advantage' youtube channel for some in depth material: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=oxygen+advantag...
I want to caution you against obsessing over solving your problems with some great fitness overhaul. Part of your problem is not being able to muster the energy and the willpower to make that kind of change in the first place. Instead - think small. What is the lowest hanging fruit on a habit level that will give you a little more energy and boost your feeling of being in control.
To give you an example, I recently gave myself a huge energy boost at hardly any cost by just improving my breathing and sleep. This is what I did. 1. Started going to bed early enough so no alarm was needed. 2. Bought air filter for my bedroom (300$). Fixed a bunch of allergy problems and improved my sleep with no added effort on my part. 3. Noticed I often wake up tired with a dry mouth. Did some research on healthy breathing patters, particularly at night, and found that I was probably mouth breathing. Fixed this problem by taping my lips at night for 10 days in a row (sounds weird, actually no big deal). I now wake up after 7 hours of sleep feeling fully awake.
The energy and clarity I gained from these small habits then actually gave me the space to try and build an exercise habit gradually. Because my schedule is such that exercise needs to take place in the morning this is helped by feeling more energised and awake in the morning. I also noticed that because my body is better oxygenated in the morning i have far fewer aches and pains than I used to.
The point is that there are some changes in life, like exercise or overhauling your diet, that, while undoubtedly beneficial, require a level of clarity and mental focus to have a chance to be successful. If those prerequisites aren't met it just becomes another stick to beat yourself with. Just examine yourself with kindness and see what the easiest way is to give yourself a boost. Good luck!
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