AprilPhoenix

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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
I think the real question is: why C++ is better for not defaulting to an automatic GC that does heap compaction? Think of what would happen to all those pthreads. :P
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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
I think the issue isn’t resources, it’s having people around you to keep you going and help you when you get stuck. Especially if you are working full time as a grown up. We ought to form a group here for people attempting to do this. Not j
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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
I can only speak for myself. My life is in the gutter, and for a variety of different factors, when and if that changes is out of my hands to an abnormal extent. I don’t have friends or anything to alleviate my current isolation with, and u
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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
I'm OK with being ignored. I'm not OK with being powerless.
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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
One thing I'd recommend is tying in the calculus you've learned with the language of differential forms. It really gives you a lot more power in visualizing what is going on (line integral-you aren't just projecting that dot
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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
I can’t speak about successful projects yet, but I have begun to make more progress in the past few weeks than I have in the rest of my life. Here’s the thing: if you have ADHD, don’t fight it, work with it. Have several different projects
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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
1) Sakurai and Dirac's textbooks on quantum mechanics. 2) Axler's book on linear algebra. That's when I started to think in terms of vectors as more than the typical "magnitude and direction" concept you are used to
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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
If you have friends, use them. Avoid HR at all costs. Steer the conversations of interviews to your technical interests and current projects and away from your past as much as possible. If a potential employer asks about the high turnover,
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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
Pay me and I’ll help give you all the motivation you need. I’d be good. I have that Nietzsche experience, you see, of having been so isolated for so long that there’s little in the way of neuroticism, excuses, dodges, that I haven’t seen! S
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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
It would be awesome, but there’s a surfeit of material out there and these guys are doing it pro bono. Better to look at it as an entry point. One thing I do is try to connect the concepts into textbooks I do have. Say I have an elementary
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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
Poor documentation.
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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
Get lost. No, seriously, get lost. Go out for a walk somewhere remote, let your mental juices flow, and bring a pad of paper to write down whatever comes to mind. Your mind will naturally gravitate to what preoccupies you if you are up for
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by AprilPhoenix 3y ago
I don't need to post links. I've failed at everything I've ever done in my life, professional or otherwise. I'm broke as a result. This isn't hyperbole, and I'm sorry if it sounds melodramatic-I think the user