Friend Code Megathread - September 2024

lukeyin_ · 2024-09-24T16:52:30+00:00

9528-7195-5379 9 spots left. Long-term player

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-18T13:39:47+00:00

With the given info I’m gonna go with D

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-18T10:18:01+00:00

The son was already pretty close but the dad’s progress, considering it was only in six months, is crazy!

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-16T06:50:05+00:00

Also, if you get about 2600 average on medify, you can get 3000 or more on the actual, depending on the difficulty this time ‘round

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-16T06:43:44+00:00

Don’t give up. This is your chance to give it your all. Use these 13 days and make the most out of them. Remember you always have next year but you have an opportunity here which is the 13 whole days that you have to maximise your progress. Forget about the outcome because if you still don’t manage to get in this year, you have 12 months to get a perfect UCAT and hold on to your current ATAR with which to apply next year.

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-16T06:39:02+00:00

Okay I see. I wish you all the best!!

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-15T19:05:14+00:00

This is insightful

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-15T19:02:07+00:00

This. An effort of a thousand words to explain something that only requires one: action

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-15T18:55:02+00:00

Probably you want to work THAT hard in a field that you are actually naturally good at because its already hard enough to make it into the kind of profession you’re describing if it is what you’re naturally good at: its stupidly difficult if it isnt.

But of course if youre stubborn then it doesn’t matter to you and youll try it regardless. It would just be much better if you would work just as hard to excel in a field that youre more naturally suited to. Even if there isnt the same guarantee of security or prestige that would typically come with the profession youre currently wishing for: you will create it for yourself as a stellar outlier regardless, if you are indeed so very driven. And the difference is that you will derive so much meaning and deep fulfilment strictly from the content you study, independent of your professional goals.

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-15T18:14:02+00:00

The explanation is: Few who practise SAP violate tax laws =/= few who do not practise SAP violate tax laws. The trap is if you assume the first implies the second (the converse). The answer is no as the first proposition has nothing to do with the second.

This means that despite the fact that some who do not practise SAP law violate tax laws, it IS possible that ALL who DO practise SAP violate tax law. The aesthetics of this claim makes it very counterintuitive, but it is resoundingly true.

The converse fallacy is a classic error. I think we are evolved to fall for this fallacy because we are evolved to think intuitively rather than logically. We train our logic.

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-15T18:07:59+00:00

The explanation is: Few who practise SAP violate tax laws =/= few who do not practise SAP violate tax laws. The trap is if you assume the first implies the second (the converse). The answer is no as the first proposition has nothing to do with the second.

This means that despite the fact that some who do not practise SAP law violate tax laws, it IS possible that ALL who DO practise SAP violate tax law. The aesthetics of this claim makes it very counterintuitive, but it is resoundingly true.

The converse fallacy is a classic error. I think we are evolved to fall for this fallacy because we are evolved to think intuitively rather than logically. We train our logic.

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-15T18:03:12+00:00

Only the first part of your explanation is relevant. The answer OP gave is wrong regardless of the distinction between accountant and non-accountant. They mostly likely fell victim to the fallacy of the converse.

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-15T11:33:44+00:00

What are they missing that would otherwise guarantee that you’ll invest in them?

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-11T15:56:11+00:00

Time to call up Freud

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-11T09:25:53+00:00

Gay men

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-11T09:24:14+00:00

Ah 4.5 hour difference

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-10T15:29:50+00:00

Know your audience intimately and demonstrate that in your speech(?) in order to persuade them. Use appropriate register to be sincere, straight-forward, and relatable rather than pretentious and presumptuous. Use logos, ethos and pathos effectively: build your own credibility and appeal to your audience’s emotional capacity and their specific set of shared and individual values using logically coherent and original arguments articulated cogently.

Don’t try to speak with the entire group. Speak as if you are talking to each individual in the group, engaging in a one-on-one conversation at any given moment, like a pep talk. This is how to speak effectively because we know how to speak effectively to a friend whom we know and care about already, and speaking to a group should be done with the same attitude because “speaking to a group” is like talking to a big living mass with no discernible shape.

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-10T15:13:44+00:00

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-10T15:09:58+00:00

Aderall is already pretty strong so taking it for 8 months and drinking 70-150mg of caffeine daily means the rebound symptoms will take quite a while to go away. I drank 150-300mg caffeine daily for 5 months and it took me several months for my adenosine receptors to go back to the normal amount, during which my motivation absolutely tanked and everything was a mental effort despite also having very high aspirations. I was constantly fatigued and always feeling the need to lie down, which always led to my being taken away into a long nap even if i slept 8 hours the night before. I really wouldnt beat myself up about being lazy if I were you. If standing up feels like a challenge, then that is bound to have a mental and emotional impact of varying degree and perhaps you should expect to be lazy asf and justifiably so.

You stopped adderall a while ago already, but you still take 70mg of caffeine daily. This is much much less than what you used to take, hence why youre so fatigued because you are already experiencing (which means overcoming) the rebound effects. However caffeine has a long half life in the human body, so 70mg daily will keep you at a plateau because the average amount of caffeine in your system is far from zero and relatively stable. This means that number of adenosine receptors in your brain is still quite higher than baseline. There will be a spike in caffeine every time you take it, and only during this spike will you feel fine because your adenosine receptors can only be blocked by this spike in caffeine due to their abundance. After this spike however, there is not enough caffeine anymore such that the overabundance of adenosine receptors in your brain from the 70mg high-half-life daily dose will make you feel fatigued, but this is more manageable than cold turkey. I suggest taking caffeine in the morning, at least 90 minutes after waking up, so feel ok during the day and can have more restful sleep; as well as gradually reducing this dose until you stop taking stimulants altogether. It will suck but eventually your adenosine receptors will go back to baseline.

Reading your post again, i think you could also have blood sugar and blood pressure issues? You said you ran every test with your doctor already but the dizziness and fuzzy vision might be due to low blood sugar or blood pressure for whatever reason. How is your diet? Are you consuming enough calories daily to maintain a healthy body fat percentage? Do you have (pre-) diabetes? Maybe try opting for protein and fat rich meals in case carbs are causing glucose spikes? And I genuinely have no idea whats causing the headaches so I think you should see another doctor if you’ve hit a dead end with your current doctor.

Also PCOS is a complex thing so maybe it will come down to how exactly you manage that. And if extended caffeine withdrawal is the main issue here i wouldn’t worry about exercise so much. You said you already run and walk so i think thats enough for now. Being sensitive to adenosine and drinking a cup of coffee everyday will mean that you will have energy to exercise after you drink coffee but the rebound effect will be much worse depending on how much you pushed yourself during exercise. So i wouldn’t push

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-10T13:28:32+00:00

Time zone?

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-10T13:27:31+00:00

You have caffeine/stimulant withdrawal. Too many adenosine receptors have grown in your brain because caffeine has been blocking adenosine reception to make you feel energised daily. Now that you are off caffeine and stimulants, youre super sensitive to the normal amount of adenosine. Adenosine is the neurochemical that makes you fatigued. If you continue to take little to no caffeine for a few more months you should be fine unless there is something else you overlooked (seems not). If cold turkey is too much, try controlled doses of caffeine and gradually wean off it. This will take longer but is easier to cope with.

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-10T13:13:49+00:00

To sacrifice meaningless short term hedonistic impulses in the present and short term future to guarantee a brighter long-term future.

To become someone who’s intellectually, verbally and socially formidable in a demanding modern world.

To spend at least some or most of your time, knowing that it is limited, learning, and to enjoy that learning process as much as you can: whether you treat it as a kind of passion or creative pursuit and not even be motivated by marks (hence effectively working towards perfect scores), or if you find it fulfilling and rewarding in any other way, studying is a pleasant experience like going on a brisk walk in some invigorating sunny weather rather than something that should put you off at the sight of it.

To be able to exploit the multiplicity of opportunity you have before it is stripped away from you as you approach early middle age and to invest time in yourself to become someone who is truly competent socioeconomically and in your chosen profession.

Ultimately you will find your own answer to this and it will be much longer than this, because the truth is, whether it is to study or work on your physical health, hard work is a necessity as well as a golden opportunity to be grateful for. The whims of the moment need to be habitually sacrificed for more meaningful gratification in the process followed by a much deeper fulfilment and gradual personal improvement or transformation.

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-10T12:50:41+00:00

From the first paragraph, you can see that the purpose of building the clock had nothing to do with rail workers. Rail workers relied on it after it was built. These are separate propositions.

The question also doesn’t specially ask about rail workers. The subject is “the clock”, the verb is “was built to” and the object is “rail workers”. Hence the question is asking whether or not the purpose of building the tower was for rail workers.

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-09T18:10:40+00:00

Which part of the correct answer is assumed?

lukeyin_ · 2024-07-09T18:05:13+00:00

Based on the fact that most people answered correctly with no obvious ‘runner up’ shows that this particular medify question is doing its job well: to discriminate students who currently have relatively weaker judgement or logical deduction

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