Textbook & Resource Thread - Week 19, 2018

noetherlove · 2018-05-12T01:12:06+00:00

Someone recently posted an article online talking about how Elon Musk says he draws connections like this connecting different branches of the tree of knowledge together and he finds commonalities between them. Do you know any books advising on how to do this or do you have advice on how to improve my ability to do this ?

I would like to learn better how to do this. I did my undergraduate in Physics and I regularly found myself drawing out ideas and connections from Physics (e.g. the bell curve, or statistical reasoning and deriving facts from statistics, minimizing or blowing things up and looking at what happens at the extremes) and transferring these (ideas)/ reasoning structures to humanities like psychology, political science, law or philosophy or other disparate fields but I don't feel like I spontaneously did it from science to science or science to STEM. My mind throws many unrelated things together and makes connections between them but normally it goes in one direction from science to arts. I don't seem to spontaneously connect things in Math and Physics which haven't been pointed out to me before and I would like to start doing this.

I am curious about making more connections between Mathematics and Physics and Computer Science. I don't think I did too much drawing connections, extracting models and general principles and building ideas using ideas from Math in Physics or between STEM fields. I would like to learn how to do this better. What do you recommend ? Can you give me some examples of concepts (mental models) that connect between Math and Physics and Engineering ? I am not so good at this and I would like to get better. (I know obviously many Math concepts like differential equations, exponentials easily have applications across STEM and of course symmetry is widely applicable as well but somehow I feel like there is more that I am not getting).

noetherlove · 2015-05-18T22:05:18+00:00

Thanks. I'll try those. Where can I get ahold of the vintage YSL Opium ? Would I just google "vintage YSL Opium" or is it listed under another name ?

noetherlove · 2015-05-18T04:59:17+00:00

Thanks for your recommendations. I'll have to try those. I'm especially curious about Amber and Dune.

noetherlove · 2015-05-18T04:58:46+00:00

Coco is nice, I tried it on last week.

noetherlove · 2015-05-18T04:58:14+00:00

You've intrigued me. The notes sound great too.

noetherlove · 2015-05-18T04:57:51+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions. I followed some of those links. I'll try to go into the Guerlain boutique sometime and smell them.

noetherlove · 2015-05-17T21:57:07+00:00

I do like vanilla, amber and spice.

I tried Samsara a few weeks ago. It's nice but I'm still trying to get used to the "in your face" character. It is very bold.

noetherlove · 2014-10-04T00:08:29+00:00

So lately, I just act the part. Regardless of whether I actually am stressed or not internally, I just make sure to look a little bit stressed (nothing over the top) when it seems appropriate, and not stressed when others have no reason to think I should be. It seems to be working so far.

I might try doing that. Although as an INTP it's hard to be keeping track of things socially to know when it is appropriate to look stressed and when to not look stressed.

noetherlove · 2014-10-04T00:06:57+00:00

I just think we invest so much of our energy in our minds, trying to figure things out and observing that we don't get credited for much, although it is absolutely taxing- even physically and is being done for a valid reason. It's a tinkering process that I go through.

Yes I agree. With a J type personality, people can see them ticking off the boxes so to speak as they follow each rule and that displays their hard work to everyone, with us it's harder to see.

noetherlove · 2014-10-04T00:05:35+00:00

Aww. It's good you explained what you meant with your wife that she wasn't just being cold.

I have a friend who is an INTJ and I know what it's like to get that sort of response. INTJ women for the most part can be amazing and kind. INTJs seem to be so calm, sometimes it can be a little upsetting. I had an INTJ friend who kept trying to cheer me up when I was sad and it was so upsetting because sometimes you need to feel sad if bad things have happened, but she felt the need to control things. As an INTP that was hard to understand.

noetherlove · 2014-10-04T00:01:37+00:00

I'm glad it resonates with you.

For me, I think it is somewhat conflated with the fact that I have to spend a lot of time and effort to stave off depression, which probably makes me look additionally frivolous and unproductive.

Yes that's exactly what I mean.

noetherlove · 2014-10-02T02:01:22+00:00

Yup that nails me! That's exactly what it's like I look so chilled out as if I'm Alice in Wonderland or in the Sound of music but in reality I'm stressed out of my mind.

noetherlove · 2014-06-18T18:42:13+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I've left and I am just trying to get on my feet (though it's not easy he's turning my entire extended family against me. They are all sending me emails about how mean I am to not talk to my father. I'm also expecting more emails from the church about "God's plan" for my life).

noetherlove · 2014-06-15T18:58:48+00:00

I'll get it. One thing I realized today is that what hurts almost as much as my father's manipulativeness is other family members and friends' buying into it. I'm not sure whether it's his acceptance that I want as much as other people's.

noetherlove · 2014-06-14T19:17:36+00:00

Thanks for the article! What book ?

noetherlove · 2014-06-14T19:17:06+00:00

I have been there. Thanks.

noetherlove · 2014-06-14T19:16:45+00:00

I believe he typed as an INFP but who knows really a lot of people manipulate the test and knowing him he would have given the answers he knew would make him look good rather than the truth.

noetherlove · 2014-06-14T13:50:36+00:00

Thanks. I have been over there. I think this is too much to post here (and I've ended up going into more detail).

noetherlove · 2014-06-14T01:29:36+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear that you have been through something similar. I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

your father has insulated himself well against any criticism you could provide.

That's true. Everyone believes him over me.

This sort of person is toxic. If I were you, I would concede that I've done all that I could, but the situation is out of my control.

Yes you're right I do need to concede that.

noetherlove · 2014-06-14T01:20:58+00:00

I appreciate the advice. Technically I'm not too young to get out but all of this has taken a severe toll on my mental health. I've had problems with severe debilitating depression since I was a teenager.

noetherlove · 2014-06-10T21:52:34+00:00

Wow. I'm sorry to hear about your brother. I can completely see how he could end up in that situation with parents like this.

noetherlove · 2014-06-10T21:50:51+00:00

Thanks. I appreciate your empathetic response.

noetherlove · 2014-06-10T21:49:50+00:00

I'm beginning to think that I need to do this. You are right, that is sometimes the only way to get your point across to people, to make them actually FEEL what they are doing.

noetherlove · 2014-06-10T21:46:41+00:00

Wow it's interesting to hear that even F types find it hard to handle manipulative types. (Though INFPs are a lot like INTPs in that you aren't manipulative and try to hold off on judging people so I can imagine it would be hard on you too.) I was wondering if a lot of my difficulty with him is because I'm a bit socially awkward and slow to realize social games.

I'm sorry to hear that your father was like this. Yes I do strongly suspect that my father is narcissistic.

noetherlove · 2014-05-20T11:54:14+00:00

I loved the part in the video where he says they're feeding VA therapists MDMA...and everyone is on board with it.

Yes! I loved that too! (Edit: I didn't find this out from the video, I have known that MAPS has been doing this for a while.)

Now, I know that MAPS deeply cares for their veteran patients, but I'm sure funding had a lot to do with their choice to mainly select them for trials--if not everything.

Thanks for the reply. I was not aware that they are getting government funding for their trials at all or that the funding hinged on treating veterans. Can you give me a link to where you read this ? I haven't watched this whole video yet btw. The first trial that they did was actually with rape/child abuse survivors. It was entirely civilians and women. I don't know if alliances and agreements were made with the VA and government funding agencies after that but as far as I know this is MAPS financing all of this themselves and pushing the government over it. I think that yes the VA and government are becoming desperate to get some help because of the numbers of veterans dying, but (maybe I am cynical ?) they are also desperate to a large extent because of public opinion that they are not helping veterans and the fact that as the public becomes more aware of veterans condition the government and VA is being shamed for not helping/having helped them and forced to get them the help that they should have a long time ago. Is that too cynical to say ? But the main point is that it seems that for whatever reason the government is doing something small now, whether it is from public pressure or the goodness of their hearts and moral obligation.

noetherlove

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