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[silverspawn]

It happened I'm now thinking about C. everywhere. The opening scene comes and I'm like "hm how do people imagine neural nets experience something like this when processing images..."

anyway Acting too artificial  and hey you can now like something at two different strengths in netflix

2/n Gone for Good

[silverspawn]

meh

3/n Pieces of her

[silverspawn]

Maybe I shouldn't feel so bad about not managing a strong opening to my web novel if professionally produced television shows can't do it, either

4/n Snowpiercer

[silverspawn]

well that was uh bad

5/n Midnight Mass

[silverspawn]

ew what a crude attempt to seem edgy

6/n Away

[silverspawn]

I can't explain what it is that some shows do that make super high profile events like presidential briefings or talks with NASA or whatever believable, but this show isn't doing do it

7/n Gypsy

[silverspawn]

this show is certainly better than the 6 before but as someone who's benefited greatly from a 2 year long therapy, I feel like I've never seen a competent therapy session depicted in film with the possible exception of Unbelievable, which was also very short.

Like I hope the point of therapy is not that you say some incredibly basic reassuring things, but that you probe the other person until they figure out things about themselves. After visiting my therapist for a few months, I really understood the way she was doing things and why it was working. You figure out what troubles the other person, then you ask questions to nudge them into the right direction. the important part comes in at the step where they do the uncomfortable soul searching

[silverspawn]

also idk if this is politically correct to say but I feel like you should dress more conservatively

[silverspawn]

Gonna semi-drop this, which is too bad, I would love a good show about a therapist. Anyone ever seen one?

8/n The Society

[silverspawn]

mh it's a show full of teenagers but there's no getting around the fact that it's well done so far

[Awaclus]

Maybe I shouldn't feel so bad about not managing a strong opening to my web novel if professionally produced television shows can't do it, either

I would be very surprised if a professionally produced television show could manage a strong opening to your web novel.

well that was uh bad

Wait, which Snowpiercer are we talking about? The one by Bong Joon-ho is pretty good.

[silverspawn]

Was only looking at TV shows this time, so apparently the TV show is based on the movie with the same name

[silverspawn]

I think in general, the single biggest factor in how hard it is to work on something for long -- for me, anyway -- is the metric of progress. In the best case, you just have a set of tasks you need to do, and not only is your progress objective, but you also now how much works is left. It's slightly harder if you don't know how much work it takes, but you can still see yourself progressing, like when writing code. It's harder still when the goal isn't well-defined. But it's only when progress can't be measured that it gets really hard. I.e., right now. A self-imposed, non-well-defined problem with no outside pressure, no feedback, and no way to measure success while the work is in progress. I think I'm doing well considering!

[silverspawn]

I remember when I blasted through the text book on linear algebra in three weeks. That was so much fun. Didn't feel like work

[silverspawn]

Probably that's a level even above "well-defined problem with fixed remaining distance", namely "well-defined problem with fixed remaining distance and neatly divided in relatively short problems with self-contained solutions", oh and also the material is incredibly interesting and well-explained. In retrospect it's no wonder that this was so easy.

[silverspawn]

As a point of comparison, in the human case, my humble opinion is that humans really hit their stride at age 37 years, 4 months, and 14 days. Everyone younger than that is a naïve baby, and everyone older than that is an inflexible old fogey. Oops, did I say “14 days”? I should have said “21 days”. You’ll have to forgive me for that error; I wrote that sentence last week, back when I was a naïve baby.

[silverspawn]

Flowchart of dichotomy 2.1, without academic terminology

[silverspawn]

Corresponding Models



Ditching the terminology has the advantage of avoiding debates about things I'm not talking about, like what came first or is more fundamental. This is only modeling causal interaction.

[silverspawn]

What is the shelling point?
5.

2+3
4+1
5+0
4+2

(Twitter poll. Idk if I understand the concept of shelling point correctly; what would you say?)

[silverspawn]

To be clear, the quoted thing is the question, the four lines after that are the four options given

[Awaclus]

What is the shelling point?
5.

2+3
4+1
5+0
4+2

(Twitter poll. Idk if I understand the concept of shelling point correctly; what would you say?)

Depending on context I would say 2+3 or 5+0. 2+3 because that's the most even way to split 5 into integers (which is reasonable e.g. when carrying heavy items, and in a lot of other situations where you are dealing with five actual physical things that you need to do something with) or 5+0 because 0 is kind of the simplest possible number so having it in the equation is probably nice if nothing else is relevant.

[Awaclus]

Also 5+0 contains the 5 itself, which is also probably nice if nothing else is relevant.

[silverspawn]

I don't really get it. Isn't it obviously 4+2 since that's the only thing that doesn't equal 5, making it obviously distinct from the rest?

[silverspawn]

(emphasizing "obviously" since that was my reaction, but in fact it was the 3d most answered thing in the poll so clearly it's not obvious, but I don't get why.)

[silverspawn]

clearly not an obviously clear poll there, obviously