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For myself, I suddenly lost the ability to read. Then I realized that the real problem was that the words were missing. I wasn't conscious of a hole in my vision, it was just that everything in one part of my vision was gone. Kind of like when you see a star in your periphery but when you look at it straight on it's too faint to see.

As time passed, the zigzag pattern appeared and the hole became more obvious. I thought I was going blind and wondered if I had somehow burnt my retina. It wasn't until later that I thought to google the zigzag pattern. It didn't occur to me that other people would have experienced the exact same, very specific pattern.

I also never had a scintillating scotoma again. It happened a couple of weeks after I started ADHD medication so I suspect they're related. I often get bad headaches and that made me wonder if my headaches had been migraines all along.

Pavlov's dogs aka classical conditioning? Our understanding of how animals learn is fundamental to modern machine learning and AI.

Note that the patients in the meta-analysis already had cancer.

The meta analysis is studying asprin as a cancer treatment, so the subjects were patients who already had cancer, not healthy adults taking it as a preventative. Daily asprin could both be bad for healthy adults and good for cancer patients.

What are the best tools for commercial use? I've been using Midjourney for some stand-in assets, but I haven't researched the license implications.

A lot of that is relevant to machine learning engineer jobs, especially time series modeling, reinforcement leaning, databases, and real time systems, so highlight those areas if you apply to ML eng jobs.

The more detailed you can be, the more "real" your job experience will look. For example, list the time series algorithms you used and quantity how they helped (error metrics, % return, comparison to a naive forecast, etc). I already mentioned latency. Optimizing your code and data for speed is something interesting you could get into too.

What was the technical work you did? Was most of your time spent on market research, coding, blockchain, or designing/implementing algorithms?

I would pick one or more job titles that are both relevant to the job you're applying for and to the work you did and put those on your resume, e.g.

Crypto trader/blockchain developer/investment analyst (self-employed)

- Developed trading platform with X latency

- Implemented blah blah algorithm

- (Throw in more metrics about how you were able to beat competition)

The proof is the skills you built along the way, the same as any job you put on your resume. In data science, at least, we're rarely asked for references. Don't think of yourself as unemployed during that time, and especially don't call yourself unemployed.

I'm a light sleeper and I feel like I have an awareness of everything nearby when I'm asleep (like I used to fall asleep with an open laptop in bed during college without knocking into it). I have a feeling co-sleeping wouldn't be an issue for me, but with all the dire warnings I'm afraid to risk it.

If students are learning how to do API calls to get homework help, I consider that a win.

It seems like a common occurrence for me to google some slightly obscure question and not see any directly relevant search results except a Quora link (usually the other results have my keywords but don't answer the specific question). When I click on the Quora link, I'll find that someone else has asked my exact question but there are no answers. I appreciate the ChatGPT answer because my next step would probably be ChatGPT and it saves me a few clicks.

(Based on the other comment, now I wonder if I just didn't find the human answers due to bad UI.)

It depends on how big the TC difference is. If you can make 2x working at a more volatile company, you can stash away the extra to get through hard times.

I would also only count TC in the first year (or 6 months), not some stock options that vest in year 2+.

I would be annoyed if I started getting so much melatonin from my food that my nightly 0.3 mg melatonin stopped making me sleepy. And I imagine everyone else would be annoyed when they stopped getting sleepy at night from their own melatonin. (Apparently 0.1 - 0.3 mg is what we produce naturally?)

My nearby stores have started carrying 1 mg children's melatonin gummies.

Sunscreen! Korea and Japan have great sunscreens that don't feel oily or icky on your skin because they're able to use more modern ingredients. The FDA hasn't approved new sunscreen ingredients since 1999.

This is important for people (commonly women) who regularly use skincare treatments that make their skin extra sensitive to the sun. They want daily facial sunscreen that doesn't feel greasy. We end up buying it on eBay because it's not allowed to be sold in the US.