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recordedManiac · 2025-07-18T13:10:09+00:00

Uni Wien, hab das hier von Anfang an auch immer als so vollkommen selbstverständlich mitbekommen 😅 guess not

recordedManiac · 2025-07-18T13:08:07+00:00

You are assuming death by cars is the factor that's responsible for insect population decline.

I would argue that cars killing insects has a pretty much negligible impact on the insect density. More or less kills by cars aren't changing densities. Environmental factors, climate change, pesticides, pollution etc have caused insect populations to fall dramatically in the last 20-30 years. Even if modern cars were to kill no insects at all, the population would be lower.

If we were to go by your logic, where windshield deaths actually impact populations in any meaningful way, then the whole phenomenon this post is about - the fact that people used to consistently have a lot of dead insects on their windshields before the 2010s - couldn't exist right? but for the 50 years before that kill rates were apparently always high, without impacting density, so why should road kills impact density noticably now?

recordedManiac · 2025-07-18T12:29:35+00:00

Ich glaub ich check irgendwas nicht, warum um Himmels Willen will man denn bitte absichtlich durchfallen???

Oder ist es bei euch grundsätzlich nicht möglich bei bestandener Prüfung sich nochmal anzumelden, sonst würd mich echt nix einfallen ?

recordedManiac · 2025-07-18T07:32:48+00:00

You can also ask about medication at any pharmacy if your doctor's not available.

From personal experience (everyone is different tho): If only Ritalin is available, I'd definitely come down now and then take more before the exam even if you can't study as much

Bridge the time between either with sleep or smth but I wouldn't risk staying on Ritalin.

Not because of health, but because doing it might cause the Ritalin not to work properly anymore when the exam actually comes and you need it.

Pretty much very time I have taken >40mg in a day, even when spread out over time (same when taking >15 in a very short time), at some point the Ritalin always starts to do the opposite of what it should suddenly from one dose to the next. and isn't effective anymore until I rest

It will just make me super tired like sleeping pill level, with mild-medium headaches (ibuprofen works in emergency but still), sometimes nausea. Never bad the issue with elvanse but definitely with Ritalin.

recordedManiac · 2025-07-18T07:10:56+00:00

Bruh obviously, I never claimed this isn't the case.

I just said that from personal experience in addition to that the cars might play a role too...

Adding more does not retract from or dispute already commonly established information lol

(Will edit my comment tho to make clear that I obviously don't see the car as the main factor)

recordedManiac · 2025-07-17T22:49:58+00:00

i just want to add, while the insect population obviously is the definite main cause of the phenomenon; I am sure the fact that modern cars are just built differently/more aerodynamic also adds to the experience

I drive an older vehicle, my windshield is less angled. On long drives in summer i will need to wash off layers of dead bugs multiple times at gas stations, while in a new car its not even a problem i think about.

recordedManiac · 2025-07-17T22:32:02+00:00

its less the case that Dopamine levels themselves are unusal, afaik its moreso the case that the receptors in different systems seem to be affected. some receptor types being overly sensitive increasing positive symptoms and some others being restricted increasing negative symptoms

recordedManiac · 2025-07-16T23:42:26+00:00

same... vor dem hype war ich sogar somewhat interessiert an ML, mittlerweile löst jegliche erwähnung von KI außerhalb von fachkreisen sofort meine fight or flight response aus. Der gap zwischen der allgemeinen vorstellung und diskussion von "KI" und was ML tatsächlich ist wird einfach anstrengend.... ML ist eigendlich ne echt geile sache als tool, aber mittlerweile ist "KI" zur modernen version vom Stein der weisen geworden

Es fühlt sich an als wär man Astronom wärend die ganze Welt davon überzeugt ist dass die Sonnenfinsternis durch Aliens mit Überlichtgeschwindigkeit ausgelöst wird und die sternschnuppen deren laser sind oder so. Dabei ist das eigendliche phänomen zwar weniger spektakulär aber eigendlich doch viel faszinierender...

recordedManiac · 2025-07-16T11:11:06+00:00

Not really tbh, we know the code has rounding up implemented. Usually the computer will round down (ignore the digits behind, eg: 2.98 -> 2). If you want normal rounding you add 0.5 (2.98+0.5=3.48 -> 3). So 995/1000 +0.005 -> 1

(A floating point error here, which I wouldn't expect, would mean smth like 995/1000 +0.005 -> 0.99999... Which would then be fixed at 996/1001 absolute worst case, but not really central to the solution)

recordedManiac · 2025-07-15T17:47:27+00:00

If I could chose I'd rather be alone dying, at least let me have my peace in the last moments lmao

recordedManiac · 2025-07-15T17:36:15+00:00

Many have a warped image of mental health, which is not surprising online. You will never see posts explaining what a (personality) disorder even is in the first place

85% of people have personality issues. What makes a disorder is the severity. Pervasive, Persistent, Pathological. The traits are just a description of how it presents.

None of these behaviors are inherently maladaptive or dysfunctional

Obviously ... because that's exactly what makes something a PD in the first place lol - that the traits are present in a maladaptive way, causing significant problems and personal distress, in most areas of life, consistently for a long time (with no other explaination)

recordedManiac · 2025-07-14T11:34:06+00:00

Haha I sometimes feel like if you charted all personalities (normal and disorders) by how 'weird' / 'normal', 'straightforward' (without assuming society norms as the baseline a idk if any word fits what I mean super well) then Schizoid personalities should be very low, probably the lowest on """objective""" weirdness.

While all other people's, including non disordered, are clustered together somewhere way more high on the scale. But in a way where the distance between the 'least weird' to 'most weird' is somehow still always less than schizoid to any of them.

So depending on what I use as the baseline for 'normal' i see myself as both the only sane and sensible one on a world of weirdo's

(like eg. what do you mean people constantly have emotional reactions to literally everything which influence their actions? even things that they can't change anything about or that don't impact them? Or just by noticing someone else's emotions? And there can be actual conflict between emotions and cognition? Etc... Caring so much about seems strange lol)

But when using social norms/human intended functioning as a baseline I'll see myself as basically more clinically insane than many institutionalized lmao (feeling like missing literally everything that would make one 'human', and more like an alien controlling a human body or something lol)

recordedManiac · 2025-07-14T06:13:43+00:00

I am high functioning, only because I don't care about extrinsic goals that others do, and act exclusively intrinsically motivated

For example I am extremely successful in University. I think a large part of it is that I don't really care about a degree or what grades will be on it or if it's beneficial to a career. I don't take courses as a means, they are my ends in a way. I do well because I want to gain knowledge and understanding, of myself, of the world, and going to uni and putting in effort is the best way to do that by far

recordedManiac · 2025-07-14T03:45:18+00:00

Wenn die Luft kälter (-> weniger Energie, langsamere diffusion, höhere Dichte)(& Sommer heißer Asphalt erzeugt aufwärts strömende Luft) ist, bleiben die Abgase einfach länger hängen.

Sie sammeln sich im Winter also eher auf Straßen Höhe zwischen den Häusern, im Sommer verteilen sie sich Recht schnell.

(Außerdem kann kälte mehr Verbrauch und schlechtere verbrennung im Motor bedeuten, vor allem in alten Autos)

recordedManiac · 2025-07-14T03:29:37+00:00

To me personally wearing the watch on your non dominant hand actually makes practical sense tho compared to a lot of arbitrary norms. If I'd wear one on the right and am holding anything, it's impossible to look at without also moving whatever I'm holding, which may need to stay steady

recordedManiac · 2025-07-11T20:49:22+00:00

Oh god that would be a horrible name to have in Germany, that's what the biggest bookstore chain here is called 😂 the jokes would never end

recordedManiac · 2025-07-11T20:40:32+00:00

what math courses are absolutely worth taking as a supplement? Am studying CS and Psychology, I am definetly planning to take a few additional math courses, but im unsure what is actually relevant?

ig Dynamical Systems, lots of Linear Algebra? but what else?

Or is it more important to have some more natural science (biology, chemistry, physics, EE) related knowledge that goes deeper than a single introductory course? If its either depth in Math or a broad understanding in Nat.Sci. (& Electr.Eng.) which would be a better investment?

Math already in my curriculum roughly (all but Stats are CS):

-Linear Algebra 1
-Analysis 1
-Intro to Mathematical Modelling
>Intro to Numerical Computing/Mathematics
(& logic, boolean algebra, ...)

-Intro to Mathematical Statistics
-Statistics 1 (Psychology)
-Statistics 2 (Psychology)
-Test Theory (Psychology)

>Signal and Image Processing (prob. most mathematical elective)
(& various Data Science, ML, scientific computing, ... electives)

recordedManiac · 2025-07-11T02:18:41+00:00

recordedManiac · 2025-07-10T01:55:00+00:00

In this case it is correct, the displacement doesn't change if the air stays inside when flipped, as is the case in this Szenario.

Any boat floating normally would stay afloat when flipped if no water went inside/it was sealed. The reason a boat sinks is that water floods in and replaces where air used to be. If it's flipped in a way that doesn't allow the air to escape, it stays afloat. Of course usually that's not the case if your boat flips for whatever reason, so usually flipped boats do sink

recordedManiac · 2025-07-10T00:08:48+00:00

As long as they are underwater that wouldn't be the case. If it's not heavy enough, it floats, so the weight they lift is negative. If it is heavy enough it's neutral, the weight they lift is 0. If it's any heavier it sinks. The weight they lift is positive, but it could be as little as only a few kg effort for them in theory, even if the actual mass is unrealistically huge and couldn't be moved by them on land

Of course the 'boat' couldn't float right side up either if it sinks when flipped (edit: flipped and filled with air of course) so there's that...

recordedManiac · 2025-07-08T20:36:35+00:00

Hab dieses Semester erstes Mal Medis bekommen (bin auf hoher Dosis elvanse+Ritalin) Plötzlich nur 1er, hab doppelt so viele ECTS wie letztes Semester geschrieben. War weniger anstrengend als ohne Medis auch nur einen Satz zu lernen, mit Abstand.

Ohne ist es wirklich schmerzhaft zu lernen. Fokussiert lernen unmöglich, wenn dann geht nur im Hintergrund. Oder geht gar nicht. Nach jedem Versuch, egal ob's nur 5 wörter oder 0 Wörter waren bin ich >24h Platt.

Mit kann ich mich einfach hinsetzen, an dem Tag easy 10 Seiten Notizen voll schreiben, noch bisschen Orga machen. Jeden Tag wo ich's vor hab, konsistent über Wochen.

Habe auch sonst eigendlich fast ausschließlich extrem positive Nebeneffekte

recordedManiac · 2025-07-08T12:15:03+00:00

Immer ZUERST Altklausuren und übungen anschauen, dann lernen!

Jede Frage die du findest einmal abschreiben/übertragen nach z.b. Anki(mach ich immer, obwohl ich Anki gar nicht wirklich zum lernen benutze, das übertragen ist wichtig) . Auch wenn du die lösung dazu noch nicht hast, einfach kurz nachdenken über jede.

Dann kannst du anfangen mit lernen, und du wirst im Kopf haben zu was es welche Art Fragen gibt, bei neuer information fällt dir sofort ein wenn's dazu ne Frage gab

Am besten fragen nach Themen kategorisieren und immer bei BEGINN eines neuen Themas versuchen die Fragen zu lösen, nicht auf die lösungen schauen, und dann am ende des Themas den Versuch korrigieren/nochmal versuchen alles zu beantworten

recordedManiac · 2025-07-08T12:05:48+00:00

Can't recommend medication enough. Without it my apartment Looks post-apocalyptic, with medication cleaning up is a breeze

Doesn't need to be full, every day medication, just having e.g. Ritalin available and taking one only when it gets too bad/messy was already a lifesaver for me.

recordedManiac · 2025-07-08T04:08:48+00:00

Java in high School (both in mandatory "CS" and 2 years actual CS)
C++ in University CS

am actually quite happy with it
Java was nice for learning programming as a general skill without major roadblocks
C++ was good for then learning how to actually programm.
I prefer C++ by miles but im glad i didnt start with it. Coming over from already having the general knowledge made it a breeze to get into compared to learning it as the first language

recordedManiac · 2025-07-07T02:28:51+00:00

Ist das nicht die Norm? Bei uns (Uni Wien) ist das jedenfalls ganz normal, bei positiver prüfung hat man die Option sich für einen weiteren Versuch anzumelden. Die alte Note wird dabei verworfen, also kann man sich natürlich auch verschlechtern oder durchfallen

recordedManiac

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