deltasepsilon
Joined 7 years ago
Joined 7 years ago
I think you'll have better luck with an app that allows depraved rich people connect with desperate poor people in order to have them do their bidding. Easier to game-ify as well.
For the confused, this is sarcasm, or as the kids say these days, based.
More concrete advice would be to spend less time on tiktok and more time figuring out what you genuinely need, as it's easier to motivate yourself towards finding a comprehensive solution to it, as opposed to your present scheme of random, half-baked ideas.
"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." —John von Neumann[1]
[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/11267/what-are-some...
If you enjoy something, pursue it. There are some caveats, however. You have to get out of your own way. If you want to believe you can't do it, congratulations you have achieved your goal. If you expect everything to be below the cusp of hardship, sorry but it won't be that way. You have to allow yourself to wallow in your own ignorance and accept it. This, however, has to be WITHIN REASON. Too much of this and you will burn out. Sometimes the program you may be in may be beyond reasonable effort on your part. In this case, you need to find another way of learning that is more tuned to your pace.
In short though, you have incoherent goals. You want to do research yet failing that you want something high-paying. From my perspective it's hard to take you seriously. If you're unserious about this then I can't imagine you being particularly serious about your own development. Let's be reasonable here. You say, for example, "I'm not even looking for [...] people to tell me that I am smart enough [...]." GET. OVER. YOURSELF.
You seem to be lacking confidence. Do you think about OS concepts? Do you use whatever devices you use and say, "Hey, I think this could be better." Do you doodle ideas about how they could work and behave to improve your productivity? Great, you are in the right program. In time, you will learn tools, concepts, and theories to make your ideas real. If you're not curious or wondering about this already then find another major aligned with something you're naturally curious about. That said, sometimes the academic process will beat any love you had for the subject out of you.
If you're competent and have an above average amount of hustle, you can be successful at anything in a stable, modern, Western democracy... for now.
I'm scandalized. /s
This wasn't explored recently. It's been a year at least since this was discussed. The work comes from an academic researcher in a CS or Engineering department. I'm interested because it presents a much higher-level view of optimization beyond micro-optimization where people worry about such things as cache effects and such, which would be bound to micro-architectural implementation choices.
[1] Umberto Eco takes on big lies and the human compulsion to hate, The Philadelphia Enquirer, Nov. 10, 2011. https://archive.is/sTIuk
As I said in my previous submission, I think this material is useful as a concrete, and from basic principles, introduction to category theory and its application to computation.
If you don't care, fine. You simply are only concerned with the utility of this so called "mathematics". But at some point, and with some sophistication, you get bothered about how well it all works and how some surprising connections are made that seem all too natural.
Then you end up writing an essay like Wigner. [1]
I write this to say, no wonder people are bothered about a "foundations". Whether it bothers you or not is immaterial, but you can understand why people get bothered.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
Although, this question kinda looks like a homework question in a philosophy of logic class.