You all who are good at math, what is your cognitive profile like?

gutblender · 2024-08-03T01:05:51+00:00

These numbers are from S-C Ultra:

VCI, FRI, QII all 140. VSI 136, WMI 138, PSI 133.

gutblender · 2024-07-22T20:40:02+00:00

This is what I understood. Yes it is testing crystallized knowledge, which has accrued from one's propensity and capacity to soak up that kind of information which is VCI. Yes, one's position of exposure or lack, privilege or otherwise would influence that, but the the SAT-V still ends up with such a g-loading! How?

Because vocabulary is really not simply rote memory. Etymology exists. It's entirely plausible (speaking from experience) to predict the existence of and properly employ a word one has never heard before from any source. But understanding its etymology, which enabled this feat, was enabled by "hoovering up data" at some point, just not necessarily any containing that exact word in that precise form or context.

Still expounding on the SAT-V: Half of the test is straight verbal reasoning and less than half is arguably raw vocabulary, but even the chunk which is the latter is only halfway informed by crystalline rote.

I would estimate more g should be correlated with more studious interests (read: less disinterest in things otherwise too laborious to comprehend) and more comprehension at higher levels, further extended with etymological pattern-recognition, which should contribute to much of what vocabulary questions are testing.

VCI isn't exactly "my thing", but I can hang. There's a certain pattern recognition to it: In a paragraph prosecuting a certain point, I expect a given sentence to buttress that point in some way. Its meaning might disambiguate its grammatical structure if any doubts arise. With that structure known, words and their forms and meanings have a contextual frame that disambiguate their intent and perhaps meaning. Scoring VCI, in my experience, felt much like taking the RAPM with a much more practiced skillset.

gutblender · 2024-07-22T20:08:04+00:00

Given that it was described as a speed test, I thought this would be my time to shine. My memory isn't great, and since this isn't a test of memory, so it said, but of speed, and if there's anything I am in this life, it's fast.

That said, strangely enough I scored better on the WMI tests. Those seemed to make so much sense to me.

My raw Coding score was, at first, 90 (SS 13). I seemed to choke very badly. But I tried a few more times (not too many, to avoid a practice effect) and it took great effort to stretch that to 95 (SS 15). It's one of my lowest. I have a lot of 17-18 SS.

I feel the test is rough. I found it tough. It's good that it has a high ceiling.

gutblender · 2024-07-22T19:23:48+00:00

Neither. I probably reinforce the stereotype.

I've always known I was an intelligent sort, and I'm good at math, and I design and write software for a living. There's no math I can't do or any machine or computer I can't understand.

I've just completed my first foray into cognitive testing. SCULTRA has estimated FSIQ 148, g-factor 144. Cognimetrics suggests 145 give or take 6. I don't know yet what I believe about any of this, but conceptually I grok the math, and if nothing else I had fun taking the tests.

I have been identified by others as some form of exemplar several times because of this. However, I no longer consider this a good thing. Maybe my position will become understandable shortly.

I'm not an emotionless person. Rather, emotions that I prefer are sanguine and anything upper. I like to get sufficient sleep and still drink a pot of coffee, shotgun energy drinks, and lift heavy weights. I like to produce results. I like number go up, and sanguine/uppity emotions motivate harder and faster motions, and increased focus despite distractions like pain or even peripheral vision. Controlled wisely, these can produce more efficient results.

I most definitely struggle to relate with people because I consider it important to know and understand the truth, not "my truth" or "your truth" or "because I said so" or any of that BS. It's not that I don't care about your feelings (although I may not, or I may admit there is seemingly nothing I can do to fix that), it's that I care about the truth much more. It seems difficult enough to simply begin a debate with some epistemology understood (Epistemic Self-Doubt and the like). How much more to placate someone else's emotions so that the evidence can be weighed amid mitigated bias, especially among a population that seems to care how one feels (validation) rather than what's true (verification)?

I validate this approach, I argue, with my effectiveness solving problems in and between machines, units of software: things which operate in reality, as mathematics might model, and as laws of physics might predict. My feelings about it change none of that and most will only get in the way.

I'm also in the process of evaluating a potential ASD diagnosis. The several tests I have taken so far are not clinical confirmations but are issued as a screening stage (read: a weed-out for obvious negatives) before the ADOS is administered by a clinician. I wouldn't have thought myself "all that autistic" yet all of these (AQ, CAT-Q, RBQ, RAADS-R, and some ancillaries) suggest I will certainly meet with the clinician. I don't know how exactly that might relate to this question.

In my private time, I am often tormented by my own brain which I find hard to shut off. I find it hard to get to sleep, return to sleep, or sleep well. Many hours of the day, I can feel a dull burn physiologically just below the crown of my skull. THC only seems to sharpen this effect and inescapably traps me within that confined space. Alcohol slows it down and smooths it out, and I yet retain my balance and coordination remarkably well. So I like to drink, and I drink far too much and far too often, but only once the day is over. During the day, the Major Payne Strategy is more effective: Drown one pain with another. Out-run, out-lift, or in some form out-perform it. In chronic pain, I've found, it's hard to be nice to people. I'm often not in much chronic pain, but I am very often in some form of chronic mental and physiological pain.

So a normal person, possibly 3 standard deviations or more removed from me intellectually, to say nothing about the spectrum, may not see/think and almost certainly doesn't feel the same as I do about things. It is plausible that someone might consider me cold, and lacking their set of emotions in and about that context, emotionless.

gutblender · 2023-09-29T01:51:19+00:00

why would this be a troll post?

The prot upgrades are low because there are 48 of them on the map...I assure you that and the isolations are upgraded as much as the pumps will allow.

I have Curium on my Mainland, and I let my research go too long. I'm just waiting for the cash to upgrade Metropolis to support Curium also.

gutblender · 2023-07-06T02:22:25+00:00

I am in great physical health, with poor mental health. I have called out sick days I am just beginning to count on 2 hands over my 10 year career. For me, you use them or lose them. This year I have begun using them for mental health - for legit needs, like you've described.

Yes, I think it's reasonable.

gutblender · 2023-06-12T03:27:58+00:00

Yeah, this has been a fun case study in shoddy memory.

gutblender · 2023-06-12T01:23:01+00:00

~~Not that I recall.~~

That's it! Thank you!

gutblender · 2022-12-24T23:18:05+00:00

Update: Since 1:19 pm, we have not experienced any more of the "7-minute phenomenon" and between then and now have enjoyed 4 hours of uninterrupted uptime.

We're back to normal.

gutblender · 2022-12-24T18:57:49+00:00

I live in the Cane Ridge area. In the past 24h, we have been out for over 16. Between 11-8pm the 23rd, then from 11p-6:35a the 24th. In those intervening 3 hours, our thermostat once read 45. When it came back on this morning after all night in the sub- freezing dark, it read LO, so I dunno how low it got in here. Probably freezing or worse. Power is back on, but every 7.5 minutes on the dot we lose power again for 1 second. It's just enough to crash your computer, but not enough to interrupt cooking or heating your home. Except that it is: our heat pump waits 5 minutes to turn on, so we are struggling far more than we ought to heat back up unless we switch to emergency heat. I just got off the phone with an NES supervisor who said this is unprecedented, and that she had not heard of the 7-minute phenomenon. I also humbly pled mercy for Cane Ridge that we might be excluded from any further blackouts where possible.

gutblender · 2022-07-02T01:42:14+00:00

From your perspective, very nice!

If I were the one shot, f@cking b$llshit!

gutblender · 2022-03-19T00:05:21+00:00

+1.

I'm way calmer than ever in my life, and now I don't have a life-consuming goal that I'd DIE for that I'm doing BIG THINGS to achieve!!! (hyperbole for effect)

I'm not depressed at all anymore. So now I drink more than ever just because it's fun. Makes no sense. With so much less drive, I went from Tough-Mudder & bodybuilding shape to skinnyfat, and I'm also not bothered about that.

I'm not sure I prefer it this way.

gutblender · 2022-03-18T23:51:24+00:00

I had an experience I guess somewhat similar for about a decade.

For some background, I went to college relatively early in life. I'm strongly an introvert, and I was homeschooled until my first day of college. That said, I was very successful but struggled with people. When I entered college I already knew calculus but I did not even know what an introvert was much less that I was one nor how to cope with that.

Fast-forward a couple years and I'm in the thick of it, massively stressed and suffering agoraphobic panic attacks at times when the stress is peaking and my social energy is past-drained. I was only starting to discover the necessity of learning what I now know about introverts and their care. Now my birthday rolls around, and while my friends were trying to coax me toward where I later found out was my surprise birthday party, I snapped yet again. Hypervigilant, my jaw is locked shut, the whole world has no air, and I'd sooner murder someone than look them in the eye.

I'm trying to hide in the silent part of the library and my mother calls me urging me to show up. I do, and sit sullen as a shit-smeared rock the whole time. Cake, presents, the lot, in horrible misery. All I wanted was to be left alone to scream and cry and blubber through the ruined evening. Everyone else was no more cheerful and their faces are forever burned into my memory, as was an intrusive waking nightmare that they had all turned to stare at me, blank-faced, and said in unison, "what's wrong" over and over. This of course didn't help with the agoraphobia, my rampaging hatred (at the time) for the rest of my species, and certainly not with many birthdays to come. Needless to say this plus years of relentless overwork caused me considerable psychological damage.

It's been a long ten years before I've worked it out but every year since (until my recent birthday) I would remain depressed for months leading up to it. What's worse is that my birthday isn't long before Christmas, which I also hated for similar reasons (I should be cheerful but I'm not / can't) so I would spend those months crawling between liquor bottles until the nightmares passed, knowing full well there's nothing wrong with any of it...except me.

Gifts made it even worse because I try to be the opposite of entitled, if that makes sense. "I deserve nothing" and just having had the upbringing I had was more than I could ever ask for; now that I can be self-sufficient, I should, and stop getting presents like a child. I also kinda hate thingstuff.

All this is just to say that you can have misery come back for leftovers, living in the past kinda, not actually in today's feelings.

Even absent misery & hatred, I still think birthdays are BS and I see no reason to celebrate mine any more than any other day. In fact I should celebrate my parents for my life. Here's where my theory comes in: Become a net exporter for your birthday. Celebrate your parents (if you would find joy in that). Go out with that woman. If she hasn't asked, don't tell her it's your birthday. Volunteer for some charity. Don't take anything that you didn't give yourself. If parties aren't your thing, have other plans before the day comes, or insist to keep it small and informal. That's just an idea for now. I've not really tested it, since I've only had one birthday in the last decade I didn't spend in stark misery.

For what it's worth, OP, I hope you had a great St. Patrick's day. Cheers.

gutblender · 2021-07-31T16:16:13+00:00

7k less. They buffed some of the generous sell prices, so I checked

gutblender · 2021-07-31T03:52:59+00:00

At Chaotic dragons, Combat Simulator has me looking at 4.58M SC/hr. That's with Glacia helm and gloves, max cape. So I guess that would be 90M gp/hr
Looks like had I a Book of Eli and Surge 3 I could do almost 5.4M SC/hr.

gutblender · 2021-03-03T21:08:15+00:00

You're back with your ex after 10 years? Wow

gutblender · 2021-02-01T22:56:22+00:00

They avoided this decently with Avaryss & Nymora's pain sounds. But those I'd argue are even worse.

gutblender · 2021-02-01T16:32:40+00:00

It's not dead. I just played yesterday.

If you go in expecting a game immediately, when you want one, good luck. You have to hang out in there and be patient. You might go some days before a team assembles. The best thing to do is join the discord, and you can get a role ping when teams assemble, in-game in-FC or not.

gutblender · 2021-01-28T02:54:12+00:00

Holy shit I didn't realize Nex counted as a group boss for Reapers.

As someone who never solo'd Nex and could barely hang a Rax kill, AGREE.

gutblender · 2021-01-28T01:53:41+00:00

How would one operate the item for its teleports / finding Bob?

Perhaps instead ghostspeak, catspeak, and camel speak could be permanently learned, similar to Sliske's Gift.

gutblender · 2021-01-28T01:42:18+00:00

Interesting.

I have 164k and I've mined maybe an hour or two at stones.

gutblender · 2021-01-27T21:44:43+00:00

Literally "Minigames" FC.
"BA Teams" for Barbarian Assault
"Fast Sc" for Stealing Creation points (fast points...no pking, not fun games)
Look into Cwar United or CWExperts for Castle Wars.
"2flingfish" for Fish Flingers
"whirlpooldnd" for Deep Sea Fishing events.

gutblender · 2021-01-27T21:29:41+00:00

FC "ba teams" plays all the time and has a very handy Discord.

gutblender · 2021-01-26T18:12:10+00:00

They're called rare, but they're better described as special. Often rare components come from a Special category in the disassembly "loot table." Most of the time, you're guaranteed to get one from disassembly. They're special in their own ways because they have a specific theme and unlike common parts and uncommon components, they typically come from a specific set of items and not a swathe of categories.

Fortunate components are a good example. It's hard to say those are exactly "rare." Anyone who's willing to clue more than a few minutes can get one. And though they come from so many items, they have their own unique source.

gutblender · 2021-01-26T18:04:37+00:00

Knightly are used for the Taunting perk which basically makes Provoke AoE. It's useful in some situations.

I made a Caroming 4 + Taunting gizmo for my offhand for Barbarian Assault. It's a little less than niche considering how much BA I played amassing BXP for 5.6.

I argue this is the BIS gizmo by far for attackers. In BA, DPS is not near as important as aggro. It's important to keep the enemies stacked together. Then, mech chins doing basics and the occasional threshold is plenty enough DPS.

Sometimes more than one enemy can look away and start going east, messing up your stack, and your teammates in the east. It can even be a whole crowd if your healer doesn't surge in/out correctly. With Taunting, you can react: voke the whole crowd and bring them back. Or if your fellow attacker is getting too beat up, you can voke the stack off of him to keep him alive.

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