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Would you email me? I'm really interested in learning about this. I have similar intuitions about places to avoid.

Would you mind reaching out to me? I'm trying to learn more about how to do OSINT (with that particular slant!).

If one was a young or returning adult with interest but little background in mathematics, would you suggest learning category theory first (assuming the adult is interested)? How would you suggest going about doing this as a path?

I appreciate the civil perspectives of you both, and would be interested in seeing you two discuss this in written format. I'd admit to having a relatively poor view of Gould, but this is not an impression formed from particularly close reading.

You might also want to look into ME/CFS. I'm very sorry to hear about this, because I had an analogous experience for years and know how hopeless it feels to try to figure out what the issue is (while your cognitive abilities / stamina are limited by brain fog), fail over and over, and in the meanwhile others cannot understand and don't believe you.

Feel free to email me if you want to chat.

I would love to hear more about this, particularly the Medicaid fraud angle.

Have you tried the Guoyu Ribao, or Mandarin Daily News? Seems like you need extensive reading practice, and that might be a good way to start.

I've also heard excellent things about Outlier Linguistics' resources for Chinese characters, assuming you're still spending a lot of effort learning characters.

It's practically 100%. Once you're in, they'll do everything in their power to graduate you (legitly). Every incentive they have points at a perfect graduation rate.

EDIT: In the US, anyway. Things are different in, say, Caribbean medical schools.

That seems to be a common opinion on the ground, apparently.

Taiwan is the awkward counterexample. It never experienced the cultural severing of the Cultural Revolution, yet is arguably the most thriving democracy in Asia.

Formal deviation from that posture would immediately provoke war from China.

Otherwise, it looks like pretty clear picture. The population identifies as (Taiwanese && not Chinese) at ~70-95%. The Sunflower movement, the election of the DPP and formation of the New Power Party, the Tsai administration's unprecedented defiance towards China.. all point the same direction, not to mention recent calls for independence-oriented referendums.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jnylander/2015/02/14/strong-sup... https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/616083178/born-independent-ta... https://international.thenewslens.com/article/113537

Would you be willing to chat about approved vendors? I can't find your email, but here's mine: derrick@amass.ai

My team did some work for the KS04 special election last year, and now we've developed a service for political campaigns. But traction.. maybe we're getting screwed by this approved vendors thing.

Harvard didn't have an engineering department until a few years ago (might be year 5 or 6 now).

As someone who wanted to redo my mathematical foundations and go onto higher maths, I tried (and failed) many different approaches. Eventually I found that New Math books worked for me. I'm about 70% through the www.elementsofmathematics.com course, which is derived from New Math, and loving it. Warning: it's about 3 years worth of work at a normal pace, and covers 6th-12th grade (through precalc, though you get some abstract algebra and number theory too).

but economists invented the term "externalities" and the analysis of such..

Where can I buy such systems?

As for the motivations of researchers:

If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.

--Albert Szent-Györgyi

My [indefensible] impression is that altruistic culture is a strong part of the reason why the quality of biomedical researchers is so poor, and cancer research funding is so often near-fraudulent.

My impression (as a heritage speaker) is that cha's usage has simply broadened a bit, in the same way that American English has herbal teas and fruit teas. These also don't contain any tea, and have a different term, tisane. But both cha and tea still primarily refer to, well, tea leaves.

Do you think these factors commonly affect both men and women? Or that these are more valued in Japan? This list is appealing to me, but it does seem to be describing something like the best possible characteristics in introverts.

I would be interested to hear what the other factors are.

This is a really nice link, thanks. Instead of an entire book I can point people to this article now! It does still seem unclear that some UV exposure is beneficial, though. Light therapy lamps aimed at affecting circadian rhythms are UV-shielded, and that seems to be sufficient.

I'll try as well: xrb_3m5191zhmgmw4ztk9an6ygyhiyyphz9fiw43wpu96xcbkfz7pzao1h7z74us

This is very interesting. I have a similar outlook on abilities as you, but only partial/lesser results so far (it's still difficult to find consistent time to develop specific skills). Actually in some ways, your story seems similar to mine. I didn't start to steadily improve until after I had good results with meditation and learning to keep my circadian rhythm in check.

Email me; I'd love to compare notes and also pick your brain.

I'd be interested in hearing more about your experience, as someone who likes math amateurly. How expensive is it and what's the process been like for you?

Saw you guys at SPLASH; good shit!

Fair enough. I myself tried to transition to software, but went through Hacker School, now known as the Recurse Center. They're rather closer to a good meal, and are tuition-free.

I do know that medical schools have been trying to attract individuals with other backgrounds -- was recruited myself, and admissions committee members told me one reason is that doctors have the impression they may have screwed themselves by being monoculturally ignorant of economic forces, technology, etc. So they're encouraging people who aren't from the traditional biological sciences backgrounds.

I'd expect the med school literature courses to have about as much effect as med school statistics courses, though -- little to none. Plus, there's been interest in shortening med school.

I tend to hold the opposing view, but appreciate that you made this point. It's definitely my experience that people who worked mastering at the performing arts, classics/literature, or even professional gaming have something that helps them persevere and navigate through a new field.

However the idea that "a true love of the subject emerges", "the help of fantastic teachers".. I don't think I've ever met anyone who had that path to excellence AFTER entering a field, find it difficult to imagine, and I've always disliked the uncritical use of "passion for x stable, responsible profession that their parents approve of". But I might be weird and blinded and I'm going to try to notice if such people exist. It probably doesn't help that most of these professions are made of people that have never done anything else.

We rent bunk beds in shared rooms, mostly to people on fixed short term stays -- interns, visiting academics, founders in accelerators (particularly 500 Startups as they're extremely close).

We're selling the company itself.

Echoing abecedarious, I do visualize the letters. In fact, I've read in some books about different types of language learners that there's a category/subset of visualizers that can only visualize the letters. (Not everyone is a visualizer, either.) It noted that these people are often very good at spelling and spelling bees.

Interestingly enough this seems to play out in various ways for me -- I can't remember people's names unless I remember how they're spelled, and often cannot recall the correct pronunciation if it's somewhat uncommon. And because my knowledge of Chinese characters is middling at best, I'm unable to remember Chinese names since I can't visualize and know the characters used!

EDIT: I should note I'm practically aphantasic, and that my visualizations are closer to being kinesthetic spatializations.

Actually, Thrun's AI course, Ng's ML course, and Widom's Databases course were announced and ran pretty much simultaneously. They were all successful, but only Thrun decided to split off because of it.

You don't think that's kind of questionable?