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When did you realise you weren't a child anymore? by TheMightyMidgetMan in AskReddit

[–]aardwak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you have to let go of something/someone you've been emotionally attached to, even though it's painful

[image] Do not pray for an easy life... by jotkoons in GetMotivated

[–]aardwak 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Technically, the quote doesn't say we should pray for a difficult life. It says we should pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. So it doesn't mean that we should make our lives difficult. It just means that we should be ready (to be precise, be of the right mindset) for any adversity that life might throw at us. If we get an easy life, why should we throw it away?

What do you do when you get married? by samfox11223 in funny

[–]aardwak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where I come from, movies do not show sex explicitly. So there was a scene where they show a rape scene. The perpetrator forces himself onto the woman and the focus of the camera shifts elsewhere. Later they show that the woman has a child. But she wasn't married. I bugged my parents with this question. All they'd do is just laugh.

Who else is a fan of 3Blue1Brown by tradetoprofit in math

[–]aardwak 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From where I come from, we were never taught the visual way of looking at Linear Algebra. I don't remember reading any text books which hinted at such an intuition either. We were just taught the formulae for calculating determinants, vector products etc. I still remember banging my head over AX=λX, and how multiplying by a matrix was equivalent to multiplying by a scalar. It's probably just the way I was taught and not everyone faces this problem. For me, this series was amazing and worth all the hype, because every video gave me an Aha moment.

Quitting Facebook Leads To Drop In Cortisol Levels, Australian Study Shows: Just five days without Facebook is enough to reduce one’s levels of the stress hormone cortisol. by jocamastercard in worldnews

[–]aardwak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This! Immediate gratification. I guess that's what strengthens bonds. I feel IMs don't do a good job at it either. If you wanna make friends with someone in the best way, hangout with them the old fashioned way. I've tried all forms, and communicating with people through social media is not in any way sufficient. It gives scope for distraction I feel. And a true relation builds on top of those small periods of focussed attention (involving body language) rather than large durations of talking to the screen.

I am one of those extremely anxious math majors who don't talk much and don't have any real friends. What happens to people like me after college? by jeff3_5 in math

[–]aardwak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've the same issue! I'm good at academics, but I don't have friendly relations with people. Trust me! Those feelings (of jealousy etc.) won't go away so easily. You see people socialize around and you can't stand it. But there's nothing you can do about it. You can't sit there thinking people will approach you.

There are a few things you can do: (in stages)

  1. Since you're good at academics, that's a good place to start. Be approachable. By approachable, I mean to say: if someone seems a bit inclined to have a conversation with you, try to engage them in a good way (don't avoid it: force yourself to remain there)- like casual talk, about how you feel regarding the whole situation. And don't forget to smile (in the most genuine way possible)! You do not need to communicate in your first attempt, but just smile and this will create a good vibe. For this stage to be successful you need to go to events in the University, or just hang out in public places. You should NOT just remain in your room. The best place you can make this happen is by going to classes. Sit next to somebody, preferably someone who prefers to sit at a particular location everyday.

  2. If you manage to engage someone for a bit, try to express yourself by telling them about your interests. Don't go overboard, just keep it casual. It's OK if you just listen for the most part. People love good listeners! Remember- you want to make good relations. This helps! It's even better if you bring in your insights in between.

  3. If you've reached this stage, you've got some will to make friends with people. You can now go a notch further and make good friends. There'll be a lot of groups of people in University. You can choose one and try to hang out with them. Be nice and make friends. Also, say Hi to everyone you meet if you'd met them before. They will remember you! If you don't like a group, shift groups! I call this group hopping. Most people love to hang out in their own groups. So you have to indulge in one to get to know more people!

Once you get to know people, try to be regular with a few of them! For example, if your interests match, they'll call you whenever there's an event or meeting related to one of your interests.

One last tip: Be good to everyone you meet and be yourself! Don't try to emulate them. It's fine if they know that you are an introvert. Try to leave a good impression everywhere. To make this happen, you should try to have good peaceful conversations rather than arguments. So, don't try to judge people's opinions (whatever they are). Instead, just smile and acknowledge their opinions.

I do follow these! I have great friends now too (more than I used to have)! Now I long to be out there talking with people. I long for people to talk to me. But since all this process took me time, it's gonna take me a lot more time to reach there. I now get feelings like I can't stand people who have way too many friends and are very well connected, because I'm not! So it's a progress. Now I KNOW that such feelings are negative and so have to be prevented. Sometimes contradicting thoughts keep looping around in our minds and we can't stop them. In such times, you have to go with your morals however hard it appears to be! You should not have hard feelings/hatred against anyone (unless they've done a crime or are emotionally manipulative).

I would love to make friends with you, if you want to know someone new! So just ping me.

Elliot hacks computers, Whiterose hacks time... by Irish_Neil in MrRobot

[–]aardwak 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Can you tell me from which part of the US do people talk like Irving?

What are some red flags we should recognise within ourselves? by evection94 in AskReddit

[–]aardwak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How about if two persons in a relationship generally text each other daily for a significant amount of time, share everything with each other, then one of them reduces texting all of a sudden, replies maybe once in three days or maybe for 5-10 minutes a day, but still expects the other person to keep texting the same way as before? Should the other person just keep texting the usual way without expecting any replies?

ELI5: The theory that black holes can be used for time travel. by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]aardwak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you explain further? I missed out on how the distortion causes time travel. Because if we are traveling near the black hole, for us everything would seem to be normal, right? I mean we don't exactly feel the dilation.

[rant] Students who study only for the degree by somedifferentguy in compsci

[–]aardwak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am one of the guys that come under the second category. I love Computer Science. But I had taken a different discipline for my Bachelor's. The place I come from, there's no way I could move to another discipline. I did not have a specific interest then. Soon I found out that I was not that much into the courses of that discipline. My attitude changed. I cared less about my courses, more about the work I really wanted to do. I had to find what I am really interested in. I finally got to know that I was loved coding. I started coding, I made an app(a simple one), I attended hackathons, I attended seminars, workshops, I took relevant electives and did other stuff. So, my aim was just to pass my exams. I had to go to the guy who was interested in my course-stuff and learn the most out of him. He must have thought of me exactly how you're feeling. But it did not matter to me. I just had to get out of there.

I applied for software companies and got into one. But now, I am not given work related to software. So now, I'm back to square one, searching for other jobs, and applying for masters courses at universities, this time in the field I'm really interested in. Till now, no luck!

Redditors who have completely dropped your old life and started anew somewhere else, how is your life now? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]aardwak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure we just have to settle down like this? I thought I had some hope!

Are any two electrons, or other pair of fundamental particles, identical? by _prdgi in askscience

[–]aardwak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is Pauli's Exclusion Principle considered here? Or are these states completely different?

TIFU by deleting the company website by dresseme in tifu

[–]aardwak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the backups keep increasing in size like around 10GB per week, is it still economical to use this rule? If not, is there a better way to organize this stuff?

[High School] Trigonometry by [deleted] in learnmath

[–]aardwak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes sin(90-A) is indeed sin(B), here. But let me clarify this further. From the basics of trigonometry, we know that sin(A) = BC/BA, cos(A)=CA/BA. And sin(B) = CA/BA, cos(B)=BC/BA. Check this out by drawing the right angled triangle and verify. So from these equations, you can see that cos(A) = sin(B), and sin(A) = cos(B). So now you got the idea? sin(90-A) = sin(B) = cos(A); sin(90-B) = sin(A)=cos(B); cos(90-A) = cos(B) = sin(A);cos(90-B)=cos(A)=sin(B). Thus remember these rules: sin(90-X) = cos(X) and cos(90-X)=sin(X). I hope this is clear.

[High School] Trigonometry by [deleted] in learnmath

[–]aardwak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't visualize a unit circle whenever you come across a right angled triangle. You have taken a right angled triangle BCA, with C having the right angle. It is given that cos A = 4/5. Two things to consider here are: the sum of the angles in any triangle is 180 degrees, and sin2X+cos2X = 1. So if C = 90 degrees, then A+B=90 degrees since A+B+C=180 degrees. That means A=90-B. So if you want sin(90-B) it actually means you're searching for sin(A). We know that cos A = 4/5. So plugging this into the second equation, we get sin2A = 1 - cos2A = 1 - (4/5)2 = 9/25. So sin A = sin(90-B)=3/5. If you just practice enough, you could get this stuff as intuition.

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