@DoneWithMaths

Homotopy theory is hard, as is grad school*. He/Him. *Fuck! I actually did it!

 Melbourne, Victoria
Joined January 2019
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My passion is intuitive animations
MATLAB@MATLAB26 Feb 2025
Visualizing square roots!
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Did art for the first time in a decade
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At the age of thirty I just had the first emotionally deep chat with my dad. I’m genuinely giddy about this
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I’ll always tell as many people as I can: addiction is not a disease: it’s is a parasite which is renders you as pathetic and helpless as those ants with their brains invaded by wasps
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@orph_18 Feb 2025
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Addiction as a fight is kind of sexy: it’s a battle of wills, one you can win, a test of mental fortitude. In my experience it’s as glamorous and overwhelming as a tape worm which makes you shit yourself halfway through a 14 hour flight.
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Imo, you can’t Beat it. You’ll never be free of it. The only way to survive is to take the Boy in a Bubble approach and remove all triggers. As an addict, you will likely never be able to do a lot of your favourite things again. Some might, but they are lucky.
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Fuck this shit! The fucking gumption of people who experience a condition, still do ok, and go on to sell the authenticity of their diagnosis in order to push cuts to support of others, is abhorrent. Where is the self-awareness? How naked is the greed??
The Australian
@australian14 Feb 2025
I have ADHD but I am not disabled, I am not a victim. We need to direct our conversation, attention and – most important – funding to the right causes.

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Like, especially on the anxiety/depression front, I have a strong impulse to reject other people’s expressions of reduced ability. I insist on forcing myself, and impulsively want the same of others. It’s very very unhealthy.
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Im often a really shit person because of this, but I try to be aware of it. To (in the most charitable read) ride this to a full article in a national masthead aimed at shutting in vulnerable people is simply disgusting. Fuck!
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I would never allow myself to give these impulses enough weight to think I should put them out there in this way. I know I’m wrong. This is a clear example of a member of a topical out-group selling themselves to disingenuous actors in order to profit on culture wars.
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As an Australian, I also have to emphasise how hard it already is to be assessed for autism/adhd as an adult. It took me four years after an assessing psych recommended that I be assessed. If I’d been treated and supported in this time, a lot of things in my life would be easier
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I love the juxtaposition on this broken site. I can’t speak to the above reference being useful at all, but the difference in effort and detail when compared to the below is undeniable
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I simply don’t understand how these accounts who post basic definitions manage to get so much engagement
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The language on LLMs, speaking of their aptitude and intelligence, does a disservice to anyone pitching their use. They are tools with which I can do a lot more than I could by hand. They’re sometimes insightful. I don’t ever expect novel genius
alz
@alz_zyd_15 Feb 2025
Replying to @AcerFur
the responses are more or less proving my point, which is that anything that trips up an LLM also trips up anyone who isn't around bachelors level at math. Also idk is this right?
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If I’m told “this tool read this book” I expect it to do more than parse tokenised text snippets in a given context window.
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The thing is, these tools are genuinely useful as hell! It’s just that we are flooded by nonsense claims of superhuman intelligence—which are off-putting regardless— when the nothing reality is useful to most of us
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