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by andoando 2y ago
Thats what Ive been telling myself among whatever else to keep me going. Im sure theres truth to it. Nonetheless I think I need to take a break and do something easier/straightforward for a while
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by andoando 2y ago
I did do something similar with Svelte, but the rendering aspect is the last of my issues really. >It does indeed sound like a very infectious obsession, I hope I can forget about the idea :-) If you don't I could use someone to tal
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by andoando 2y ago
Funny you say that. I got the inspiration in part from weed hallucinations. I'd be listening to music and when I closed my eyes, I'd see this moving beautiful 3D colorful visuals. I thought it was astonishing that our brain could
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by andoando 2y ago
I have seen this. Its pretty cool and I do want to learn it. What I am thinking of is much more of programming language though. The fundemental object is something like a composable tree with some additional state.
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by andoando 2y ago
5 years ago I wanted to make animated visuals for music videos / light shows. I got the initial version quite quickly. You could make a composition of shapes and had some functions like swap these two components every 2 beats, rotate t
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by andoando 2y ago
That sounds heavenly to me.
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by andoando 2y ago
But math is something our brain has conceptualized right? The set of constructs we built are those which our brain sees as being logical and in tune with our observations. The brain is a construct of space time, and its purpose is to model,
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by andoando 2y ago
I find language to be worse for abstract thought. Abstract thought to me is shapes and transformations. I then have to put words to them, "Imagine there is a ball here and another ball here and..." I can imagine things transformat
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by andoando 2y ago
I think fundamentally math is modeling properties of space time. What is outside it?
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by andoando 2y ago
Ultimately mathematics is describing space-time. You can definitely think to start with the intuition of having 2D numbers, but to define that you'd have to define what 1D number is anyway.
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by andoando 2y ago
> I think it's more accurate to say that the combination of factors that influence attention is different for people with ADHD, with a lot more emphasis on interest and less on other factors. When you say "its something I wish
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by andoando 2y ago
I have an ADHD diagnosis. I think the diagnostic criteria is a joke (and I know at least 3-4 people who have gotten a diagnosis because they just wanted stimulants, so its not as hard as you might think), and having thought about all these
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by andoando 2y ago
You can do the same with all numbers, and you get the construction of the surreal numbers.
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by andoando 2y ago
Look, I've had the same experiences since I was a child and everything I am saying believe it or not in a way is the beliefs I've developed thinking about my issues (a coping mechanism even). >Being bored is a sign of lack of i
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by andoando 2y ago
According to this, stimulant use if anything normalizes the differences found. Without a proper understanding of the field, I have to admit its hard to criticize the specifics. https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full
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by andoando 2y ago
There's plenty of skepticism of corporate influence in health care. I am skeptical of anything where money is involved. Cancer is an extreme example here because being 1. Based on hard physical evidence and 2. having a huge liability f
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by andoando 2y ago
>All of the symptoms of ADHD are different areas of executive control. I am not sure what you mean. Isn't "executive control" involved in almost every behavior? Why are the criteria used in ADHD diagnosis any more indicati
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by andoando 2y ago
Based on what data can you say these symptoms tend to come together though? This is a whole another problem with the diagnosis. A human being is making subjective judgements based on the self reporting of another human being. Most of the ds
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by andoando 2y ago
What Ive seen from these support communities like /r/Adhd is admins gatekeeping their interpretations with this guise of knowing whats best for everyone. The admins there for example have decided that 1. The word "neurotypica
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by andoando 2y ago
Completely agree. Imo we'll come to see that these categorizations of mental disorders are far too simplistic
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by andoando 2y ago
I understand the first sentence I've said "seems like" a statement made by with someone with prejudice saying something like "people with adhd are lazy". But as I clarified, my actual criticism is entirely different
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by andoando 2y ago
I admit the study looks pretty good, but Id still have to see if these changes are present in those with depression/anxiety, etc and 2. are not result of stimulant use to be convinced. I found this if youre interested which cites more
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by andoando 2y ago
Can you point me to a study showing these brain scans being different from those with diagnosed ADHD and not? The evidence would furthermore have to show that this difference is apparent not just from adhd vs non adhd but adhd vs anxiety, d
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by andoando 2y ago
As I said "Thats not to say I don't think people truly have physical issues". I have diagnosed ADHD, and I take mental health very seriously. I have zero such prejudice. By "definite" things I mean, singular, physic
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by andoando 2y ago
I think the same is true for all the psychiatric disorders, but people talk about diagnosing and "having" these disorders as if they're definite things. I don't understand for example why ADHD is any more real than any o
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by andoando 2y ago
I am sure there are. I was quite into aquaponics for a while as well. I just wish these things were more common place. All these technological advances...it should be easy option for people to live in communities where they can do few hours
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by andoando 2y ago
With all this tech youd imagine it should have become easier to self sustain.
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by andoando 2y ago
My understanding is that what we consider as particles can be described as waves of smaller particles. For example, atoms are fluctuating electrons, neutrons and protons, all of which are fluctuating subatomic particles and so on. And what
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by andoando 2y ago
I still feel like animal intelligence is completely downplayed. Dog's can learn new environments and tasks. The simple act of recognizing what a door is and how they work takes quite a bit of intelligence. As far as I can see, AI still
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by andoando 2y ago
I don't see how language and consciousness are equivalent in any sense. Does someone who never learns to speak not conscious? I suppose we mean the ability to learn language.

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