I think I need a life algorithm change B&B is getting me into trouble lately
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I may have been flattering myself here. There is no learning loop on the bounds.
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Note to people who want to replace me with a very small shell script: my core life algorithm is branch-and-bound. With GAN learning loop on the bounds. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_an
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This was apparently the weird bunnytrail I was on just before the pandemic. If pandemic hadn’t hit you all would have been treated to a disquisition on governing life algorithms. Funny how this hypothetical basically became real and it turned out “bake bread” was a common answer.
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Challenge: You have to develop an algorithm to run your life because you’re about to lose all higher executive function to a strange condition. Sketch out the basic logic you’d implement.
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Covid basically borked higher-level executive function for all humans and orgs. The highest intact level was probably analogous to the frontal cortex, the rule-based stuff. Prefrontal cortex was mostly shot. Infinite game crashed. Only finite game and below were working.
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Mine is probably borked for good.
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Interesting. ADHD is one condition that has never felt at all familiar to me from lists of symptoms. I guess the go brrr phase was the ADHD part?
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As a person with p strong ADHD, I’ve been surprised to see the broader world flounder in the low-exec-func lifestyle for a year. OOH, it’s been affirming to my own struggles (low-exec life is actually hard!) but also, OTOH: I’m v hopeful for people to regain their exec func, lol.
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I probably have the opposite condition of lazy stable focus. If I get interested in something I can stay on it indefinitely. That definitely broke last year. It’s still broken. It needs Starbucks time and lots of aimless, agenda-free walking around to sustain.
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Mediocrity was hard in 2020, which is why I didn’t update my mediocratopia blogchain since November 2019. And since it’s my only mode I basically didn’t do much. It was a time for excellence or nothing and I basically chose nothing.
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This joke was basically a prediction
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Let’s divide ourselves up into 2 teams.
Team A, consisting of Kenny and Butters, will work on solving the problem.
Team B, everybody else, will stay home drinking hot cocoa and watching cartoons until Team A gives us the all clear.
That seems fair I think.
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I don’t have a surge mode. I have operated in surge mode maybe 10 days in my entire life. I think Covid response was all surge mode.
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Heh last year was all standardized testing. And predictably Asia beat the US.
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As a “bad homework/excellent test scores” guy for most of my life, I found that hyperfocus was my ally (standardized exams can look alot like games/DND campaigns). It’s the “deciding what to focus on” or “why tf am I doing this rn?” sensation that now feels like a broader trend
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So I guess whatever algorithm I’m running right now is on infinite loop. Unless some other weird big event counterprograms me in an unborking way. I guess big events just periodically flash me like an Arduino board.
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