nyan_sandwich
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
Good call though; distilled water is neutral.
More interesting is the point that a given person may thrive in one environment and falter in another. This is totally true, and very important to keep in mind when evaluating what to do with people who are faltering, but it's not a dichotomy between that and the "fully general robust innate talent" theory. Both are true. Some people are simply stronger and smarter, but on top of that, environment plays a large role. Act accordingly.
It looks like it uses linear interpolation between the different glyphs, which makes it look a bit jerky. The author might want to try a sinusoidal interpolation so that velocity reaches zero at the key frames and the whole thing thus spends more time dwelling on the legible parts of the animation and looks smoother.
You could start calling yourself a "recovering programmer":
I may not be representative, But that's honestly what I'd do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Free_Lunch_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_in_search_and_op...
>just
ADHD doesn't work like that. "just" supposes willpower, ADHDers have low willpower. The whole problem is how to "just" do something, so reiterating that is a non-solution.
There are (only) two things that seem to help me: (social) commitment that would be unthinkable to back out of, and random fluctuations in neurochemistry.
I have a job, and find that I have very little trouble maintaining a good work ethic at work. Especially when the boss tells me to do something differently. The social and commitment aspects really motivate me. Beeminder (https://www.beeminder.com/) is really awesome as well, until your brain figures out that you can cheat. For doing work outside of work, I have a few friends that I just meet up with and mutually enforce work-time, which is really helpful and always productive.
On top of that, I notice major shifts in ability to do work that seem to have nothing to do with anything. Some days I'm randomly on top of the world and able to do huge amounts of highly productive and creative work, other days I can't even focus on what's in front of me (sometimes literally). I can only explain this in terms of random neurochemistry quirks. Unfortunately I can't control it. One thing that seems to help is standing in a dominant victory pose and counting to 300 as fast as possible, which raises testosterone and lowers cortisol. It seems to help a lot if you can remember to do it.
(Solving neurochemistry would be extremely lucrative; there are thousands of people who are separated from large wealth only by this factor.)
So I'd say you are fine on holding a job, but the jury is still out on becoming great.
Why? Surely a state that allows some people a comfortable base on which to build wealth that benefits everyone is a good thing rather than a bad thing.
Don't forget that everything as an opportunity cost. Would you rather eg James Watt fretted about privilege, or used his to build the steam engine?
I'm currently interested in making technical knowledge and thinking more accessible and convenient, and fixing Science in general.