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@Inexorable Username I don't think women deliberately manipulate men, and to be honest I've never even considered the concept as anything relevant. But I think women do things subconsciously which are aimed at testing men in various ways; in fact I think it's necessary for them to do because a...

@washti maybe you're right, actually. This was sort of a case where 2 introverts got into a platonic mode and I myself got very passive. I was actually a bit ashamed with myself about how passive I got, and I felt the dates were going nowhere. I mean, we were talking about goddamn statistics and...

in my experience acknowledging sexually explicit or borderline inappropriate behavior on the part of girls never has any advantageous effects, in fact it usually seems like it's a test of whether you will react to it and get all frothy-mouthed. Like you suggested I usually say "cool, thanks" or...

it means she uses her ass to get attention and little spikes of dopamine she gets out of said attention. You personally gain nothing from giving her this attention

I'm sure I can always get better, and one "problem" for me is that I tend to err well on the side of caution. Having said that I think people have a hard time seeing my perspective – I'm not talking from the perspective of "I met this one girl that I really liked and couldn't figure out what was...

It's something that has been on my mind for a long time and I've been trying to understand how it's all tied together. What I'm talking about is the zeitgeist of the 2010's, where it's become a practice to invent these various invisible forces – racism, sexism, human-made climate change, etc –...

that would be a perfectly reasonable and not uncommon preference. The thing is that the only way that I, as a guy, can tell the one from another is by reading cues, body language, misc non-verbal responses. E.g. if I get closer, does she move slightly away or move slightly closer too, etc. Most...

one introverted woman I dated invited me up to her apartment, then invited me to sit next to her on the couch, etc, etc, but then if I tried to get more intimate with her she was 100% neutral and just sat there without giving any signal one way or the other. See now I am tasked with calculating...

the issue I've had with introverted girls is that they send zero signals outwards to the world, which is a problem in a romantic/sexual scenario because the counterparty is completely dependent on those in order to know how and whether they can proceed. That's true for both the mere flirting...

So how does one approach an introverted girl, Inexorable? And what sort of guys have YOU found attractive and what did they do

The science erection

genetic analysis of modern humans shows that we have more female ancestors than male, meaning that fewer males reproduced in prehistoric times. I don't recall the estimates but something like 25% of males reproduced whereas close to 100% female did. Nowadays males reproduce at almost the exact...

that is bad news lol. Or does it just mean I have an audience...

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what a brilliant move I just pulled. I fell asleep after eating that chicken and woke up just now, and it's midnight.

I have an even better idea, he can learn computers science and then learn machine-learning algos that can learn what sort of songs become smash hits and the use that to become an international pop start. "Yo dawg I herd you like music and computer science so we put music into computer science...

Transitioning into teaching doesn’t sound too wildly unachievable, have you tried it before? OST stuff to me sounds like something which would require networking or some sort of exposure, although I have zilch knowledge about the music industry. Incidentally I was listening to some guy at work...

Kinda sounds similar to so-called restless legs syndrome. I think I have something like that sometimes. Workout usually solves the issue.

When I was like 4 years old and foolishly stepped into an ant hive. That shit was wild, yo. Ever since that event I’ve been skeptical towards ants.

I keep wondering whether it’s easier to hear a neighbor who lives on the floor above you than below. I am on the top floor and never hear a single thing from below, but I do this thing where I like to amuse myself by practicing different accents, like I can suddenly yell out “yo who da fuck!” in...

I totally disagree. I would say that motivation is not limited to either impulses or some instructions you give to yourself. Most of real motivation amounts to belief, on a emotional level, in some future on a long term horizon. In fact I think self-discipline is a half-measure when it comes to...

I am an eye and tea pee

academy of ideas

I feel like world maps are scandinavia-centered. Common map projections like Mercantor make scandinavia look like it almost covers whole of north Africa, whereas in reality it's about the size of Egypt. Basically everyone along the equator gets screwed over by map projections.

I suppose you can never prove causation (due to the problem of induction). Something might look causal with 100% consistency yet one counterexample will be enough to falsify the causality. Statistical analysis of causality is another thing. If you have a time series and one variable is...

brilliant channel on cryptography and computer-science stuff: Art of the Problem brilliant channel on philosophy

looks really interesting, I should check out that book

been listening to the classics lately; stuff I listened to when I was a teenager. Nostalgic feel

that's a very simple question to answer lol; no, one cannot beat the market (with a few exceptions as listed below). I used to work in equity markets (mostly model-based trading), and I can tell you that it is impossible to beat the market unless you're one of these: a high-frequency trader...

Google's new qunatum supercomputer can hold over 1000 floppy diks

I did feel incredible connectedness once. I was super drunk in a night club at new-year eve a few years back, and at some point right after midnight I got into a zone I have never been in before or ever since. I was like a spirit, unchained from the shackles of physical existence. And in...

I'll write this as a little note I can go back to in about a month and compare the outcome to the current sense of suspense nowadays a lot of things are at stake. Large sums of money, reputations, and trust in machines as a means to predict the future. In particular machines that I have...

Not to be a pessimist but this project sounds way too general and excessive. Not only will you have to develop and implement a lot of extremely advanced AI theory, and perhaps even invent new AI theory, you will also have to build a whole data infrastructure with databases, servers, etc, and on...

a lot of math is best understood visually (perhaps all math). Newton for example believed geometry was the only "real" math and that algebra was for plebs who couldn't to math. Also, when people examined the brains of mathematicians they saw that the parts associated with visualization were the...

here ya go

I think it has some occurrences in nature, but that's not really surprising considering that it's a trivially simple series (just always adding up the previous 2 numbers). Personally I'm a big fan of Fourier series, it's one of the most beautiful concepts in math. The fact that one can represent...

I think I saw some of your code for that a while back on this forum. If I recall correctly you used multi threading and stuff, pretty cool. Not sure what advice you’re talking about though. How to understand rick and morty?

Lol I don’t know if you’re serious but even in the hypothetical scenario that a speech to text interpreter would parse every word perfectly it would take you ages to write even a trivially simple program.

Mostly R for ML and statistical stuff, C and C++ for more computationally demanding stuff

Thou shalt not fart in the shower. That’s the teachings of the ancients.

@Marbles you would be correct if the wave function were only in the real plane, but the wave function is a complex number so it actually consists of 2 waves; the real part and imaginary part. This can be seen e.g. from Euler's formula The absolute value of a complex number is the euclidean norm...

I guess I don't trust the temporary exuberance one gets from music to be conducive to reaching goals. It's similar to when I get all kinds of wild and inspired ideas when I drink alcohol and then the next day realize how foolish they were. Reaching and creating goals is all about slow, sustained...

That's my understanding, yes. The particle does not have any particular position but rather a probability distribution of positions, and the probability of any particular position is the squared absolute value of the wave function (according to Borne Rule). Here is how the position distribution...

russians are all either spies, hackers, or alcoholics.

well the good thing about memories is that they are just memories, records of the past. Sentimental narratives is whole different beast, it's trying to conjure up some romanticized version of reality.

as far as I know, uncertainty principle has nothing to do with interaction or the observer effect. It's an inherent property of quantum particles irrespective of the method of measurement. I have a vague understanding of it in terms of fourier transforms; particles can be described by wave...

if I start getting all sentimental and make up all kinds of silly narratives in my head based on the music, I stop that immediately. I only want to hear and feel the music, without narratives. Narratives destroy the mood. But in terms of imagery, I usually see images from times when I listened...

he realized he could click "close tab" in his internet browser