7 X 2022

7-9 VIII 2021

did math and coding nothing special really

sleep: good

concentration: good

phone time: good

reading about measure theory. here is a great book:

everything is so well explained here. i wish i could do more math than i have time for but i guess it's fine, it's holidays, i will wreck my brain completely anyway when october comes

tomorrow more measure theory and topo

ofc that's right, thank you for fact checking!

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Hello, dear! 🌻

I saw your post wanting book recommendations. I'm sorry for your previous struggles, but I hope this list may help you find something you love!

-"The Housekeeper and the Professor" by Yōko Ogawa (The professor is a mathematician!)

-if you like Vonnegut, you may like Haruki Murakami, specifically his older titles like "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" and "Norwegian Wood" (I feel these books do a good job of expanding on people's motivations and moods.)

-"The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery (Again, excellent at conveying emotions.)

-"Hunting and Gathering" by Anna Gavalda (This one is technically a romance - a genre which I personally would normally HATE - but it portrays such realistic characters, their struggles and their natural dialogue during fights that it actually felt more like I was reading about a collection of lives that I had the pleasure of spying on from above. I really love this book!)

-for WWI and WWII-themed titles, I'd recommend the Battlefield comics by Garth Ennis (He's SO good at writing believable characters and realistic dialogues.)

-if you don't mind high fantasy, any of the books in Terry Praychett's Discworld series about the wizards might be up your alley (You can read them independently without issue, or start from the beginning of any of the wizard titles. You can find a reading guide online! The wizards of his world are very regimented about how magic works - somewhat like mathematicians - and it's very funny.)

-the "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" series by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (I'd skip the 4th one - the main character/POV changed and I wasn't as impressed with the writing in that one - but the first 3 books are an absolute dream to read. The characters are so charming, lovable or completely horrifying, it feels like a wonderful foreign mystery series that takes place in 1940s Spain. It was really interesting to try to keep track of such a unique mystery amidst the second world war.)

I hope those help! Please enjoy your reading journey. ♡

hi, and thank you so much for the recommendations! I appreciate it a lot, those books sound really good

saving this for self-care and for anyone who might need this

also, I can add: squint your eyes hard and then looking at something far away. it's supposed to help your eyes relax and a bonus simple grounding exercise!

from my personal experience, once you start paying attention to how different it feels on your eyes to look at something far away as opposed to something close, you can relax your eyes without needing an object to look at. now when I'm going to bed I imagine a tree far away and I feel my eyes relaxing, it helps with me fall alseep faster. it might be a placebo ofc, I know nothing about eyes, but it is still a good trick for falling asleep regardless of the supposed effect of it on the eyes

We need like “unclench your jaw” posts but for eye strain. Like

Go look at something 20ft away for 20 seconds.

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I know one person who started phd without master's but that's in computer science and he already had a research startup running independently. he had a med degree already and his research is about using ML in medicine, so he was granted a "special permission" to start a phd. the guy is a very hard-working genius

now when it comes to math, one of my friends claimed that it is possible to start phd after bsc if someone graduates magna cum laude or something. I never heard of that before and it sounds insane, so I asked my advisor about it and he never heard of that either lol moreover he said that it's a stupid idea unless someone already has a few publications

afaik in the US the undergraduate degree takes 4 years and phd takes 5, it's like a mix of masters and the actual phd, so I guess it evens itself out

okay this might sound stupid to a lot of you but I thought you need a masters degree before you can do a PhD. so weird to me seeing 22 year olds doing a PhD after a bachelors degree. I don't know where I got this idea but I'm having a hard time rearranging my world view around this, even though this is so inconsequential thing to be wrong about xd

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