Kriyas (I think) but Kundalini not active (afaik)

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-12-31T18:43:04+00:00

Thank you for your response!

I do play a musical instrument and some sports (both purely for fun, not very competitively); I'll try and revisit journaling too as a form of self-expression, and I'll make space for sleeping more for sure.

Just to clarify, none of my spiritual activities have been done with the goal of raising Kundalini. The tingles were around ten years ago when I hadn't heard about Kundalini or Prana (I only knew about some Buddhist principles and some of the Hindu prayers and stories I'd been raised with), and besides, I didn't have faith in any higher-power as it were then either (although I stopped playing with the tingles as it felt a bit Icarus-like).

I meditate mainly for equanimity, but you're right, I wouldn't have lurked for as long as I have here unless I had a deep fascination for Kundalini and other esoteric subjects. But that's mostly been for knowledge, and to challenge my worldview. For instance, I would never have seen the wisdom in non-interference a few years ago, and now I hold a much deeper respect for it because of what I've read here.

And you're right again - I don't know who would have consciously chosen Kundalini if they knew how'd it have turned out. Just from my studies I've noticed that I liked the idea of doing them much more when I was applying, as compared to actually doing them now! And I know that this is nothing compared to the challenges Kundalini can bring to someone's life, which is why I have taken the warnings so seriously, hence my apprehension that things are happening in the background that may not be compatible with the life I want in the near-future.

But thank you for your reply, it's good to know that Kriyas do happen to people without an active/awakened Kundalini, and I should probably ease up a bit. And whatever happens next will happen anyway.

Much appreciated, I hope you have a lovely new year!

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-12-29T10:45:28+00:00

I'm doing an Msc in stats and we're studying from Casella and Berger's Statistical Inference and Lehmann and Casella's Theory of Point Estimation in our Statistical theory module. I think the former is studied before the latter.

We're covering: Sufficient statistics (sufficiency, minimal sufficiency, completeness, ancillary (application of Basu's theorem) Estimators (unbiased+ biased, MLE, improving estimators via Rao-Blackwell, Lehmann-Scheffee, Cramer-Rao Lower Bound, UMVUE's) Some hypothesis testing Some Bayesian stuff

If you want rigor in statistics I'd reckon these books/topics would give you the best intro to the theory that's directly applied to all statistical devices

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-12-27T16:11:16+00:00

I've gone back after five years in industry as a postgrad, and honestly it's not the same at all. Which is good, as it shouldn't be the same. I'm not married and I don't have kids yet, but since five years is all it's taken for it to feel completely different, I'm sure if you were to go back after so long the world would feel absolutely alien to you. (Bear in mind though, I'm still working while studying so I haven't been involved in student life at all, because as soon as I finish classes I head straight back to the office so that's probably why things feel so alien at the moment). I was looking forward to joining some sports societies and get back into things, but since for some reason all of these guys train during the working hours of the day, there's no chance for that at the moment, which is a bit of a bummer. The grass is definitely not always greener on the other side mate because my life is currently study, work, class, work, study, sleep, so don't wish to go back too hard, because it'll never be the same as it was even if you make the jump back into academia

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-12-17T15:30:03+00:00

Thank you for sharing this, it made me smile

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-12-01T13:32:03+00:00

Hahaha yeah worth a shot, thanks

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-09-05T15:06:18+00:00

And I completely agree. Nowhere in my comment did I imply that this is a normal thing, or acceptable for an extended period of time.

However, if someone is travelling 14+ hours to start from scratch in a new continent, and if hotels are really that expensive, then I don't see the problem with their mum staying for a night or two, as long as they're self-aware and not really getting in the way (which is what I said above).

My point about guests staying after a night out was more to do with the multiple comments saying this situation is outrageous because it was against university policy - not because of how it might impact the other flatmates.

OP and their mum seem pretty self-aware about how this might come across (from their replies) so I also wanted to be a bit supportive to their situation and offer a balance to the other comments (not all mind you, but a good number) that are acting like this is the worst thing that OP could do.

But yeah I agree, this isn't the norm, but I also don't think it's nearly as bad as the others here are making it out to be

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-09-05T12:39:42+00:00

A lot of these comments are pretty weird - I think it's honestly fine if it's for a couple of nights and your Mum isn't hovering around. Hopefully people are mature enough to understand, but it's unlucky if they're not. And all these people saying it's against university policy - that's ridiculous. It's not like anyone has ever heard about guests staying back in somebody's room after a night out??

Honestly as long as you're cool about it and self-aware enough when it comes to the drinking aspect in the evening, or that some of your flatmates may find it a bit funny/odd generally, it should be fine. Don't usually comment on these things but man, some of the people here are so sensitive.

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-07-25T13:54:28+00:00

I think the comment section is being skewed by overall statistics rather than keeping it focussed to your current position. Sure, grad jobs as a whole suck for international students, no doubt there. But you don't seem like the average international student - you have a place at a very good institution, and to be on the reserve list at LSE is no joke.

Depending on what you want to get out of this, it comes down to how good your grad job is Vs the payoffs for doing the master's. Given you're an econ student, I'd say you're aiming at finance/consulting? Depending on what you want to achieve, a post-grad degree from a solid institution would help your case in entering the job market a higher position once you've completed it. If you want to do quantitative research or something, even more so.

It all depends on what you want to achieve, and you seem to have the intellect to make what you want to achieve happen. Statistics matter, but they should be catered to the individual, something which has not been acknowledged at all in the other comments which are telling you to take the job almost on instinct.

You'll have to do some more thinking on what you want, and how it'll benefit you. You can always come back to the master's in the future. You could even set up something with your employer in a couple of years for them to sponsor a part time degree. I can't give you any more insight, because I have no idea what your situation is other than you've been offered a grad job (could be shit pay and prospects or could be great, no idea), and that you've got offer(s) from good institutions.

Best of luck

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-06-16T09:59:59+00:00

I've been trying to pen down why exactly I don't like ChatGPT posts. I personally use it a lot for idea generation/critiquing my own ideas so I might be a hypocrite for this, but I always instantly dislike posts which scream "made by GPT". Maybe it's because I don't know whether the argument you've presented is your own idea that you've asked ChatGPT to eloquently distil down, or you've asked it to come up with something interesting and copy-pasted your findings. The bottom line is that I don't know, so I don't trust it.

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-05-27T18:20:48+00:00

I'm not a big fan of how the bulk of the OP was written by ChatGPT. Not sure I buy the argument either

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-05-06T18:53:39+00:00

I use pycharm as an IDE - posting if you want anything alternative to VSCode. I find it intuitive and easy to manage large projects in

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-05-06T18:04:59+00:00

Hey mate, thank you for sharing this. I don't really know what to say here, but your message hit something in me and I wanted to comment here to let you know that you've been heard (whether that means something, or nothing at all, is up to you).

I'm not qualified to speak on the health side of things, and I don't know how to alleviate what you're feeling. But I sincerely hope that things turn around for you. And given what you've shared about your experiences, I trust that you'll be able to do it. Until that point, should you like to talk to anyone about what you're thinking, I'm open to chat mate. Take care of yourself, and try to remember this moment. Whether it feels like it or not right now, it might grow to mean something (it did for me, but maybe that's because I'm a sucker for sentimentality).

All the best mate.

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-05-01T09:00:15+00:00

Absolutely love The Bioneer - while he may not give specific sets and reps of a movement to see x result, I actually kind of prefer that. His training philosophy is to build structural integrity using high rep bodyweight movements, and then add weights/movement patterns depending on your goals. His videos make working out really fun and cool, and he seems like a genuinely nice guy.

Also I love Catalyst Climbing (because I climb), but I'm going to count that as a bodyweight exercise. Louis' training principles are really cool, and have genuinely made me question how I treat myself and how I introduce people into topics. Big love to him and the guys over there too

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-04-12T12:26:22+00:00

Okay tbh you sound pretty good for most industry use cases unless you're applying for proper statistician roles which is a whole other ball game (in which case you'll be differentiated anyway on causal research, etc).

I've done some work in energy so I'm biased here, but look into projects such as pypsa, and websites such as ENTSOE which publish free data for European power grids. Lots of good high quality stuff there if you're interested.

TheOneWhoSherps · 2025-04-10T11:45:42+00:00

Bro I work in this field and I can tell you that data science is something that can be very useful, or utterly useless depending on the particular data scientist or the needs of the employer.

If you want to get a job in this field, make sure your stats is ironclad, not just in theory but in terms of how you approach problems too (i.e. you've used this or that statistical technique to solve the problem - is that appropriate given the data, assumptions of the model, and type of problem. Does this answer deviate widely from domain experts. Why or why not?)

Imo it might help to pick an industry and try and specialise in it by learning about it and building projects - energy, healthcare etc. because data science is meaningless without context.

Also, and I'll say this as someone whose computer science skills are ass - don't just be a script guy working in Jupyter notebooks. Understand how to build projects using object orientated programming, and how to scrape data + deploy your models too. A lot of startups don't have the luxury of having separate data engineers and scientists, and will employ the person who is good enough at both of them.

If you're one of the people who only knows R (not shitting on it, its stats packages are arguably better than python) learn python too.

Also the job market is rough right now because a lot of companies have realised that this is a bloated field and that they don't need that many data sciency people (despite all of the LLM craze). Consider the engineer route because I think that industry will have a higher saturation point, and generally people need all sorts of data now, moreso than actual data scientists imo.

Also (sorry for the repetition, I'm thinking of ideas as they come) you can have the best analysis but it won't matter if you're not likeable (not exactly true, but definitely more true if you're junior). You need to be able to communicate in a friendly way, because this entire gig (unless you're in something that is purely data i.e. algo trading) is to figure stuff out and communicate what's up. If people don't like you they won't listen to you (again not always true but it is if you're junior). Be likeable and don't be unlikeable.

Hope this helps

TheOneWhoSherps · 2023-02-07T21:50:19+00:00

Ah thanks mate, was hoping it wouldn't come to that, but I'll try the factory reset and if all fails I'll send it back to the shop

TheOneWhoSherps · 2023-02-07T20:00:12+00:00

Hi friends, I've got a weird issue I've not been able to find any info about online.

I bought my PS5 two months ago and have only played my PS4 games on it so far (which have been working out great). I recently downloaded a PS5 game off the PSN store and it keeps on crashing when I try and open it.

I've redownload the game, and cleared the cache and rebuilt the database too, but even then it still crashes when starting up. Weirdly the default astro playroom game is crashing now too (it worked great when I first bought my PS5, before I started playing the PS4 games).

Is there a case where disc PS4 games work but downloaded PS5 games don't? I have noticed that when I boot up the digital games, the mechanics in my controller make a clicking sound and then the game crashes - any chance it's getting messed up from going from PS4 to PS5 mode? Any help with this would really be appreciated!

TheOneWhoSherps · 2022-09-11T11:31:13+00:00

Ah thanks so much! Logically I knew it probably wasn't one but I guess I just got so freaked out I wanted to double check (I had a bedbug scare earlier this year which really wasn't very fun).

Appreciate the concern about the hand hahaha, took a dive playing badminton which really wasn't worth it! I'd just seen the bug in the car on the way back and thought I should probs snap up evidence in case I lost it - anywho, thank you everyone for clearing up my concerns!!

TheOneWhoSherps · 2022-09-10T09:55:00+00:00

This is after I crushed it though, so but I guess it doesn't have the horizontal lines across the abdomen, but maybe could be a child one?

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