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I don't know too much about engineering, but from what I understand you will have to specialize in some very narrow field. Physics and math might give you a more diverse set of possible paths. I can give a couple of thoughts on the financial route though. I work as a quant in the financial...

Ah, good point. If you assume that MBTI is not useful, then it's not useful.

I would say it's neither behaviorist nor cognitive. Both of those are concerned with scientific theories, whereas MBTI doesn't really provide any theory at all. It just groups patterns of behaviors into discrete categories. I guess ostensibly, it has a theoretical component that deals with a...

I quite disagree, @Hadoblado. To begin with, none of those three points need to be satisfied in order to make use of MBTI. 1) MBTI is not really a model but a taxonomy of behavioral traits 2) You don't need to do that unless you really believe there is such a thing as discrete types that each...

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I think you're putting her on a pedestal

That may be so, but if one is consistently failing to communicate with people, first and foremost I would focus on myself. In fact even this happens in a minority of cases, I would work on my own communication skills. It's a strategy that cannot lose.

Yes, the Nordic area is a very level playing field. Of which Norway is the most prominent case.

According to people at a finance conference I went to recently, the potential number of people that will be replaced by machines over the next decades is extremely small compared to how many will use AI as a complementary tool to human intelligence.

^Yes. Being misunderstood all the time is a result of not being good at communicating one's thoughts, and that, in turn, is a result of not being good at putting oneself in the counterparty's shoes. In short – lacking empathy.

@ruminator Perhaps when you write a paper, you simply compare yourself to a different standard, so that your ideas now seem less well-crafted? After all, if you are comparing yourself to academic papers, you are comparing yourself to the highest standard there is. If this is the case, you should...

It is Sweden. That's where I am currently.

Arrange your life so that all your well-being is dependent on a stream of instant gratification and vapid dopamine kicks. E.g. spend a lot of time on social media.

You mean from a pupil's perspective? I don't know if it would be disrespectful, but it would seem somewhat unfriendly and give off the vibe that you don't like them, because usually one has a much more casual way of addressing a teacher – typically by their first name. I can mostly speak for...

Retrospectively, though, I must say I am quite happy with the outcome. I achieved two things: 1) learned a lot of interesting things about WWII history, and 2) proved that school is not about learning but about taking orders and following rules.

I know, right?

We made a film in high school about Hitler's rise to power as project work in German class. As you can imagine there was a lot of nazi salutes. We also put quite some work into getting the mustache right. Also, as an "easter egg" we tried to insert the word "motherfucker" in German in as many...

I would say I have a fairly active metacognition. When I'm trying to learn some concept, I often think about things like: why don't I understand certain aspects of it and why, who do I understand other aspects and what other structures do I have lying around in my mind that pertain to the...

I think your incompetence goes beyond emotional articulation, my friend. It stretches into the field of biology. Anyways, I don't think I've ever been "truly incompetent" at understanding people, but I realized at some point in my early 20s that I severely overestimated the strength of...

@Animekitty are you talking about that thing where they told you to put a video in a separate thread? I doubt you made anyone upset. Btw I like people with whom I can disagree a lot, so I like you.

Hello Gill. Are you the gill or just any random gill?

I like thinking about things, I like writing, and I like having discussions about a wide range of topics. And I do think there's a lot of interesting topics that get brought up here. But mostly, of course, I'm here for the ladies (aka laydieeees – said in the style of Bill Burr)

@Cognisant how do you first make a case about "Scientism" using a definition of it which is completely different than what is usually agree upon, and then get all worked up when people have no clue what you're talking about? Actually, after reading the thread I still don't know what you're...

Italy seems to me a place where you would go as a tourist but preferably avoid otherwise. That's a rule of thumb for southern Europe in general. Italian might be interesting purely from a linguistic aspect due to its relation to Latin but I don't know what else. German is interesting if you...

Since I got Internet in my apartment my productivity has decreased by about 98%.

Nip/Tuck

I'm still thinking about it. Here's an interesting piece of fact though: The two people near the cedar tree (Krivonischenko and Doroshenko) were found stripped down to their underwear, with some of the other people using their clothes to keep warm. As it says in wikipedia: So it's likely that...

That's not necessarily the case. The three people found nearest to the tent (see the picture in OP) were found facing the tent, so it seemed they were trying to get back to it.

That shouldn't stop you from constructing a probable narrative which is consistent with the evidence though.

The autopsy states that the missing eyes and tongue were due to natural post-mortem decomposition. This was Dubinina's corpse, who was found with her face submerged in a water stream. I think the missing tongue and eyes is a detail that has been vastly overemphasized. Other than that, it's hard...

I believe two of them worked with some nuclear stuff in connection with their studies, and the older guy was a former military guy. There's more extensive biographies here: https://dyatlovpass.com/hikers

They were mostly engineering- and physics students and graduates in their early 20s, with the exception of Zolotaryov who was a 38-year old ski instructor of some sorts. They didn't have any history of mental illness. They were generally bright, physically fit and experienced ski hikers.

I was gonna start painting a few years back, since I was considered a prodigy in drawing when I was a kid. I painted exactly one painting, which I was quite happy with, so I ended my paining career with that.

Documentary about The Man Beyond

It seems to me that if spasms, seizures, and psychosis are the symptoms of that poisoning, it is very strange indeed that all 9 of them essentially walked uniformly down the hill and showed no evidence of gastrointestinal symptoms whatsoever. It's also strange that there was no trace of any such...

Definitely not. You're basically selling a part of who you are, in fact the most valuable part of who you are in my opinion, as this is a part of your intellectual self. I wouldn't trade that for money.

Harry Potter and Star Wars. They are just means of escapism for nerds. Lord of the Rings gets a pass for being visually and cinematographically beautiful.

Yes, but from what I understand, the amounts were barely above what you would expect from ordinary background radiation. Coupled with the fact that the people found with raised radiation levels worked with radioactive material, it seems unlikely that this radiation had actually anything to do...

The only thing that was found was some alcohol in a few of them. The rest were clean (or at least there's nothing mentioned in the autopsies as far as I know). Some people use intoxication as an explanation for the seemingly erratic behavior, but this seems to me just a way of introducing...

Here's also a pretty good exposition of the incident. The video provides a theory of its own –namely that they fled the tent because their stove started to produce smoke. This to me seems like a unsatisfactory theory, as it doesn't explain very well why the whole group decided to leave...

This case has fascinated me for some time now. It's a famous mystery, but if you haven't heard about it, there's some information about it on wikipedia. There's a lot of theories about what actually happened, but somehow every theory is either very improbable or doesn't explain all the evidence...

One interesting application is poker AI's, see e,g: here: http://www.businessinsider.com/libratus-poker-bot-winning-at-texas-holdem-2017-1 I've spent the last year or so writing something similar, using the same techniques as the researchers. Pretty much done now, and it seems to work pretty...

Most people are automatons, wired to respond to certain words in particular ways. In order to have a normal social interaction with them you need to know what words are wired to which response, and then you just press the buttons basically. It's not too entertaining for you, obviously, because...

I don't think any property of humans set us "apart" from animals. Say, is a bat set apart from animals because it uses ultrasonic sounds to navigate in-flight? That's a sophisticated adaptation which we don't have, yet no one claims bats are somehow super-human or super-animalistic. Human...

Please don't bomb us

Come to think of it, doing drugs is a good way to make new friends. Doing a couple of cocaine lines with somebody can be a very bonding experience. Come to think even more of it, I'm probably wrong about alcohol as well.

You're a man of clear-cut tastes, my friend. Anyways, as higs said, start by figuring out your own sense of humor – what amuses you. When you're with other people, say things that puts you in a good mood. That automatically puts other people in a good mood. Watching funny stuff and getting used...

Assembly 4 life Jokes aside though, I'm trying to learn assembly to write faster C++ code. Things like cache profiling tools as well.