> in four separate images in the form of a cross, the light of another galaxy located 20,000 million light years away.
So that's 20 billion light years away.... Interesting. I think something's wrong here given the universe is 13 billion years old.
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So that's 20 billion light years away.... Interesting. I think something's wrong here given the universe is 13 billion years old.
I really just straight up don't trust people who value these and I also don't feel like making a human connection to them either. If I see someone in a bespoke suit and wearing it properly, I nod my head.
It feels almost like seeing a good beard. You wouldn't buy a Gucci beard to be put on like a fake mustache. You'd have to groom it and take care of it on your own for months. Apologies for the odd comparison but it's needed to add a deeper contrast.
"Luxury" goods shouldn't be a sign of status as they're often toxic. Buy what you think actually does the job and solves the problem.
I've spent so much time focusing on it after coming from Ruby and I must say, I'm thoroughly impressed with my experiences.
There's also genetic relations with schizophrenia. I've always wondered if these had to do with nature or nurture. Often studies simply say they check a person's mental health background. Is it really genetic? Perhaps it could also be what gets taught and passed down to us or the home we live in.
Perhaps the mental illnesses that our society experiences is nothing more than poorly regulated drinking water, mold in the walls, a bad diet, Mom's spaghetti, or spices that don't agree with us.
I find this research very interesting. The bacteria change could be a side effect of something but since the bacteria is atypical, it leads to a very interesting question: How did it get there?
What foods carry this bacteria? Does this bacteria kill other healthy bacteria? Does it serve a purpose?
I'm not a biology specialist, but I would love to know if nutrition is related.
- No Slack for non remote
Slack is cool, but I remember thinking that if I needed to talk to someone, it's over email or in-person. This really encouraged face to face or email conversation. There was also Skype for remote workers, but if you're not doing remote, you could kill Slack. Now that I think about it, Slack is more of a vitamin than a pain killer for non-remote organizations. Slack is great for remote though and love it.
- No Agile
Ah, I remember when I had my first job using Agile. It was cool the first few weeks and that was it. Again, it's not a pain killer, it's a vitamin. I had the best time ever just sitting in meetings on Tuesday mornings to demo everything in person then do code review with my CTO after. Talk with the whole team including marketing on what we'd work on. I loved it. No agile, was completely in the know and performing.
- Support with Tools
It sucks not having the right tools to do the job. Receiving the appropriate hardware, desk, and software has always been useful and makes me happy to come into the office. It really sucks when you wake up, look at your amazing at home desk, then go to a lousy work desk. Bling out the work desk. You can do anything from getting a top end work computer, a great monitor, an eGPU (may actually save a company money from AWS bills), a DAC/AMP (cause devs usually have a thing for headphones and the budget for great ones), or a desk goes up and down and has memory settings and it's fast.
- Minimum Friction
If you get told you need to change up your landing page, change up the tooling, or do a big refactor on something, always take it seriously. Some people marry a concept or an ideal and it can often cause friction between the team. Giving up the consistency and letting others use what best let's them get their job done should be given time and thought. All in all: be fluid with company practices and not letting a "mono-culture" take root is usually best.
My best experiences have been when a single employee can happily recommend a new way that could radically change the initial experience of a customer or a company culture. The fluidity maximized sales and development.
- Wrap up
We have so much now with tools that can be categorized as pain killer or vitamin. My best recommendation is to have less vitamins and more pain killers.
Note: This is just me though. I know a lot of other people have different ways they prefer to work. This is just me.
Otherwise, I have to painstakingly go through their source or read 19 pages of small font. I don't want to do that.
The self conscious emotions, pride, shame, guilt, envy, remorse, embarrassment, hubris, and many more come from the prefrontal cortex. As it develops over a very long period of time, so do the emotions. I remember that embarrassment doesn't typically develop until you're approximately 7-years-old.
> You seem to be putting words in my mouth. I didn't claim OCEAN wasn't empirically based, nor did I claim that it is used for diagnosis. I said the DSM is used for diagnosis of BPD. I offered OCEAN as an example of the general lack of rigor in the field. Read my post more carefully.
Also, you did claim that it was used for diagnosis. Read your last set of sentences:
> Consider for instance the current system of categorizing personalities: the "Big Five" system (OCEAN). Why is this still a thing? Any sort of primitive GBDT would almost certainly perform better than this, so it's a mystery to me why these crude systems are still being used in the mental health industry in 2018.
I would assume "these" refers to a set of systems inclusive of OCEAN considering it's referred to as the context of the paragraph a few sentences back.
> In general, psychology doesn't seem to be based on many of the lessons acquired in the physical sciences over a very long period of time, and there doesn't seem to be much math involved.
This is just so wrong. Ten years were spent developing a mathematical system called the Facial Action Coding System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_Action_Coding_System. This system is used to add together all the muscle movements of the face. When this is done, you can discern from the muscle movements what emotion is being displayed.
Emotion science is known to be a field of psychology that really thrives from science. I can't think of any other field where BA's and BSc's can work together on their research and where MD's can reliably use the work they develop. There's very little fragmentation and the work each group does and contributes to the other is valuable.
Emotions are so deeply tied to the sciences that you can see them occurring in the brain as you give it an MRI. The amygdala activates and registers uniquely for each of the six emotions.
All basic emotions originate from the amygdala. All basic emotions are displayed universally and symmetrically (perhaps with the exception of contempt, but a whole article can be done on that), all basic emotions on the face, all basic emotions are universal, and all basic emotions register as we see other basic emotions.
The last one is interesting. When it comes to clinical psychology, we can actually see patterns in emotion recognition and tie them to mental health disorders. Borderline Personality Disorder scored on par with a baseline, but they selected anger as the emotion when defaulting. Bipolar assumed more emotions were happy during mania periods and sad during depressed periods. Anti-Social saw people who failed to reach par with baseline with either failing to recognize fear or failing to recognize disgust in other individuals.
On top of that, we also know that displays of emotions are important as well. Major Depression saw individuals display a wide array of emotions; almost like they were screaming for someone to see their feelings. And then, psychologists also saw Major Depressive people exhibit minimal emotions with slight movements in the upper face. These people were in a completely different segment and were at a high risk of committing suicide.
We can derive from the muscle movements, the activation of the brain, how these expressions are universal, and how we can mathematically that this science is not "fuzzy". There is a lot of hard work and much consideration from all facets of research that contributes to these results.
Imagine 40 or so co-workers cheering behind your back that your brother died of cancer. I hope this gives a good perspective as to how he may be feeling.
For the record, Rob Ford was a very bad man.
Toronto is expensive. I need to express that. Business operating costs will always be lower of you compare another city to one that is often ranked exceedingly expensive. Relative references are not appropriate since you don't have a baseline. So, use a baseline of what the average operating cost is.
Toronto is HARD to get around. My morning commute is over 1 hour of driving at 5:40am - 6:50am with some variations depending on weekday, accidents, and time of year. My shift starts at 10am. If I leave at 8am I would arrive at 10:30am and be late for work. I hope this perspective shows how hard it is to get into downtown Toronto and how bad their traffic is. (The office is located away from the GO train and there's free parking in case people are wondering why I drive instead of transit.)
Toronto is also a bit old in tech. When I came from Vancouver and went to meetups, I felt like someone had rolled the clock back by two years. It was an odd feeling. The community just felt... Behind. I think this comes from businesses not giving as much time for developers to explore new technologies, hence why there may be larger delays in new tech popping up in Toronto.
Businesses are... Conservative. Having worked in Vancouver and coming to Toronto there was a cultural change that needed to be made. Businesses operated with less focus on employee happiness and talent retention and more on "talent results" (read: work or replaced) and transparency on 3x salary ROI. Banks and conservative businesses practices are very much the norm in Toronto. Very helpful for a business but to an employee, Toronto has a lot of cons for workplace lifestyle.
If you live in Toronto, I recommend working remote with US companies. Or, if you are inclined to do so, move to Vancouver or Calgary. Because of these issues that Toronto presents, I have myself been planning on moving to Calgary in a year or two.