dorena

this!

I think it’s also the reason why I was good at maths, very used to conceptualize stuff

I‘m also a self diagnosed aphant. I was so relived when I found out, school was very frustrating since there are so many learning methods that are built for people with a mind that’s able to picture stuff also hard to remember faces, I usually only know some facts about people, like they have red hair, brown eyes… even family members

but I can at least hear sounds in my mind :) I read that this is a similar spectrum thing where some people hear nothing and others can replay everything

Yeah that's probably true :D it was just hard to imagine myself working with this kind of people for the rest of my life :O (of course not everyone was like this...)

I studied one year of medicine in Switzerland and switched to something different afterwards (at ETH Zürich, a more technical university). My expectations of what medicine would be like were completely different than what it actually was. In my experience medicine was: - too many entitled people (due to the student selection process) - huge competition between the students (no one cooperating, or sharing learnings) - a lot of learning by heart (which I'm not good at & is very boring) - not very difficult to pass the exams

These were all reasons why I switched, but the main reason was the job I would end up with in the end. It's so much harder to work remote, have a good work life balance and move abroad (depending on where you live) once you start working than in other jobs.

I think even if you don't end up in machine learning in the end, having a strong computer science and math background opens you so many possibilities in this world that I would give it another go if I were you (after some rest, like others already recommended). Maybe you could make an exchange semester in another country? that can really help motivation wise :)

Good luck!!

You say that some people want to have their own bank. "That the cryptocurrency space exists in the first place is the evidence of this."

Sorry, but that's just not true. Crypto exists because people think they can win money with this Ponzi Scheme!! ONLY reason! Greed

Hahahahaha, people try ponzi schemes in different forms every 50 years or so and it always makes few sketchy people rich and ruins a ton of idiots :D

I think it's good that unique user tracking is not possible with Fugu. In my opinion, a lot of developers and companies start tracking all kind of detailed user data only because it's possible and they feel like they might need it later. Data collection and analysation can become an obsession, that doesn't even really serve a real purpose anymore :D and is just invading peoples privacy for nothing

I completely agree! I think we should go further and teach cooking at school. Finally kids would learn something they could use every day :)

Is this usually a legit journal??

I'm a co-founder of kosmos school (educational VR games) and froggodoggo (side-gig platform for founders). I would love to have a very informal place to talk to other women (or else, see below) about startup-stuff, discuss what we are working on, motivate and help each other... that's why I just opened this server.

Note: Even if it says "women" in the name, it doesn't exclude men, trans or non-binary folks, everyone welcome as long as it stays friendly, safe and inclusive :)