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lucas

17:10

@DavidZ Sorry. I had to go. I need to sleep. Thank you because of your attention and time. Good luck.

3075

@BernardMeurer did you check quest? I'd do it now.

Bernard Meurer

@3075 Czecking

We have received your application, but no decision has been made yet.

RIP

3075

hmm

don't worry like I said it's because you applied late.

and they said 7 weeks processing time for international admissions.

should be less than that though.

Bernard Meurer

The tension though

I'd be so happy to get into Waterloo

my life would be so much easier :p

3075

lol, you'll get in dw.

i'm still waiting for uoft.

Bernard Meurer

17:20

@3075 ::hugs::

@DanielSank I NEED YOUR HELP

I have that interview monday

and I think I'm getting sick

what do I do?

What do I eat?

DanielSank

@BernardMeurer Next time you all-caps me, I'm mailing you a slap to the face.

<3

First of all, don't panic. Get some chicken and rice and sleep a lot.

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If you can, get some zinc tablets. They supposedly actually help get over common viruses faster.

Bernard Meurer

@DanielSank Sorry :p

Alright I think I have chicken and rice

And I've been getting almost no sleep so I'll fix that

DanielSank

@BernardMeurer Dude. Ok, please listen to me very carefully.

At this stage in your life, when you're about to go to college, you have one major enemy... one thing that can make or ruin you: sleep.

You will be tempted again, and again to give up sleep in the name of getting some assignment done, or going to some social interaction.

In isolation, missing sleep isn't all that terrible, but it tends to turn into a habit, and then you are totally, utterly fucked.

In fact, going short by an hour or two of sleep even once will reduce your ability to think and act well by a lot more than you might think.

...and you get sick.

Bernard Meurer

It's a habit to me, I get about 6 hours of sleep a night :/

DanielSank

@BernardMeurer If there's one thing you can do to make yourself get more stuff done in your life and be happier, it's to sleep enough.

I know that I need 9 hours. If I get 8, I'm ok, but definitely not on the top of my game.

Some people need way less. Everyone's different.

Another thing that happens is when you're tired your brain tells you to give it sugar, so you crave junk food. This has obvious bad consequences.

Bernard Meurer

17:29

I swear I try to go sleep at around midnight

but then I open a page about a bug at IBM in 1983

DanielSank

Yeah, this is a common problem.

Bernard Meurer

and yeah, three hours later I'm getting linux installed on a potato to check on something I read there

and it's the end of sleeping early

DanielSank

1. Set an absolute time to get in bed. Do not negotiate with yourself.
2. Do *not* bring a phone/tablet/whatever into bed. If you can, don't have a TV or computer in your bedroom.
3. Stop working an hour before bed, and read a book or something else like that.

^ Good advice

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@BernardMeurer Believe it or not, those hours at night spent installing Linux on a potato actually make you get less done overall because you don't perform as well the rest of the time.

At least, not if you have to get up to go to classes, etc.

Bernard Meurer

Alright, I'll try and get my sleep schedule back on track. And the junk food thing is true now that I think of it

when I get little sleep I eat so much crap

which is everyday

then I feel bad and bike more

and get more tired and eat more crap

I'm living in an ackermann function halp

3075

@BernardMeurer university interview?

DanielSank

17:35

I wasn't kidding at all. In college time management, and sleep management in particular, is a huge factor in success.

Bernard Meurer

@3075 TL;DR: College is expensive; Brazilian billionaire has a foundation that gives scholarships for Brazilian students going abroad; ultra super competitive; 6-phase selection process; I got to phase 5 which is a panel Monday at São Paulo (I live in Rio); Life changing opportunity, very nervous, very worried

3075

oh I see lol

gl :D

Bernard Meurer

@DanielSank "One potato with linux over bed time could be two potatos with linux in the morning" is my new motto

dmckee

@BernardMeurer Good luck.

Bernard Meurer

@3075 @dmckee Thanks!

dmckee

17:39

All the things the DS says about sleep are true. And while you can force your way through a week on very little if you have to it takes it's toll. It will eat into your fitness, degrade you focus and memory until you get caught up, and tends to cause unhealthy weight gain.

It gets harder to force through it as you reach middle age and the consequence hit sooner and harder.

So establish the right habits while you are young.

3075

@dmckee the DS

Bernard Meurer

@dmckee I believe it, it's just so hard to stop and go sleep once you are knees deep into that bug you've been working on for hours now

@3075 lol

3075

I sleep for 13 hours a day.

Bernard Meurer

@3075 Holy crap, how?

3075

my first class is in period 3 which is at 12, and I sleep at 11 normally.

Bernard Meurer

17:44

I just instantly wake up at 9AM

Idk what happens

My brain is just like "NOPE"

3075

my alarm is for 7, so I wake up and brush my teeth and sleep again for a few hours.

Bernard Meurer

Wat hahaha

why do you do that?

3075

because I don't have anything better to do with my life for now.

Bernard Meurer

@3075 Have you considered installing linux on your shoe?

3075

@BernardMeurer how does that work?

Bernard Meurer

17:49

@3075 get a raspberry pi zero, get linux on it, implant it on your shoe with a battery and a bluetooth module, get some sensors in and idk

do something with that :v

I'm fairly positive you can make a potato-powered potato running linux

Slereah

"First quantization is a mystery, but second quantization is a functor"

heheheh

Bernard Meurer

@Slereah What's a functor?

Slereah

It's a function between categories

Bernard Meurer

Categories?

user116211

@BernardMeurer yeh.... it's damn taking too much time ;/

Obliv

18:00

it's a group-like algebraic structure i think @BernardMeurer

Bernard Meurer

@MAFIA36790 I know :/

@Obliv Ah, I see

Obliv

I'm learning groups now. I have to do 30 more exercises to move onto the next section. Sometimes I wonder if it's even worth doing all the exercises qq

user116211

@Obliv o-O

user116211

Why don't you deem it worthy?

Obliv

well some people say working through every exercise in a text is time not spent efficiently. I think that I learn something new in almost every exercise though so I'm going to keep doing them @mafia

until it becomes repetitive/i'm not learning anything useful/new then I'll keep doing them I guess

DanielSank

18:04

@BernardMeurer Good motto.

@MAFIA36790 o/

user116211

\o/

DanielSank

First quantization is stupid. Second quantization makes sense.
FTFY

Slereah

Second quantization is just a fancy word for "Fourier transform"

user116211

I witness Ron is also banned in Quora :(

DanielSank

@Slereah Nooooooooooooooooooooo

That's not true!

Ok well sort of.

But not really.

@MAFIA36790 Yes. You'd think smart people would make the decision to behave in a way that doesn't get them banned. Getting banned means you can't share what you know as much, which is less good. Unfortunately, not all smart people think this way, or they don't prioritize being able to participate as much as they prioritize standing on principles.

This is extra-unfortunate, because by participating you can help improve the rules of the community.

By getting banned one achieves nothing.

Pichi Wuana

18:12

Hello

Obliv

18:26

wow @0celo7 is back :D

did you enjoy your extended 'break'

ramsay

19:30

help me out with this:

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Q: help: in applying calculus in physics

I am new to calculus and during my mathematics class my sir defined $\dfrac{dx}{dt}$ as $$dx/dt=\lim_{t\to t_1}\dfrac{f(t)-f(t_1)}{t-t_1}$$ and my sir made a clear statement that $\dfrac{dx}{dt}$ is not a fraction it only behaves like a fraction! (it means $\dfrac{dx}{dt}$ is just a notati...

Obliv

20:24

@ramsay "Like, you shouldn't feel bad about thinking of these things as infinitesimals. That's the idea. But the reason people say not to think of dy/dx as a fraction is twofold. 1) Mathematically, that's not literally what it is. It's a limit etc etc. 2) Sometimes, if you are too uncareful with treating these terms as variables, you can come to a result that's just actually wrong. I don't have an example off the top of my head, but when I was teaching calculus, I saw this happen now and then.
On the other hand, I don't have a problem with people reading this as "infinitesimal change of y o…

GPhys

21:14

so it's summer and I start graduate school (physics PhD) next semester

normally I did research over the summer so I have an oddly free summer :o

I've been considering buying the first several volumes of landau and lifshitz and going through that over the summer

Bernard Meurer

22:14

> the cuFFT library are very similar to the API of the library known as “The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West”

Lol

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