Thanks for the concern. My understanding is that the established recommendations for the vast majority of vitamins are highly conservative and that I would have to more than double my intake before I would be in any actual danger: Evidence here
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I take 10 000 units of Vit D each day. Partly because I’m a pasty nerd who never goes out and partly because large doses are anecdotally helpful for mood.
I take around 1.5mg of melatonin each night. Would have preferred 1 or less but it’s too difficult to find them in smaller quantities so I make do with halving 3mg tablets. When I take them I find it significantly easier to get to sleep.
This is a small one, but when I realised that I wasn’t going to meet my Friday evening deadline, I emailed my advisor to let her know along with the reason I’d missed it, whereas in the past I would have not told her and then spent the weekend alternating between, stress about the missed deadline, extreme procrastination, and madly trying to get the work finished. She responded supportively and now I’m feeling much less stressed and procrastinate-y than I otherwise would have.
On another related axis, my efforts at being accepting and emotionally stable are starting to pay off in the form of massively decreased negative self-talk, increased comfort and emotional intimacy with friends, and decreased sense of pointless obligation and guilt with respect to other people’s problems. My methods have involved medication for my anxiety/depression, reading a bunch of self-helpy stuff like parts of Scott’s blog, Kate Donovan’s blog, Nonviolent Communication, How to Lose at Everything and Still Win Big, and (still working through) The Charisma Myth, obsessive journalling, and spending as much time as feasible hanging out with, reading, and talking to people who embody the traits I want to have.
In what way is it less elegant or clear? When I read that book, I found the idea of humour being a reinforcement method for getting us to update our mental models to be extremely elegant and insightful, so I would be interested to hear why you don’t agree.
I should add, my general impression of your theory is that it has a lot in common with Hurley et al’s except that you think everything should be reducible to status while they think that status isn’t anything special
I am not interested in being an introductory phonology/phonetics textbook, but if you want to know why linguists think that semivowels should be considered a separate category to vowels, there is plenty of writing out there on the subject.I’m bowing out from further participation.
Get off my lawn
I also don’t know IPA very well, and I can’t assume anyone else does, so I tend to just say things like “y sound”.
That’s the problem right there though, you’re assuming that ‘y sound’ corresponds to the letter Y in English. The letter Y can represent either the phoneme /j/ (pronounced as the syllable-initial y), or the smallcaps i. The general rule is that syllable-initially Y represents /j/, elsewhere it represents the smallcaps i. Same goes for W, it’s /w/ syllable-initially, /u/ (or smallcaps omega, or barred-u depending on your dialect) elsewhere. R is similar but there’s a lot more variability in how it’s pronounced by individual people, for some people “bird” has a distinct consonant in there, for others it’s just an r-flavored vowel, for people like me it’s not there at all because I speak a non-rhotic dialect but I lengthen the preceding vowel somewhat as compensation.
Google apparently speaks British/Australian/South African or Massachusetts English. In the majority of American and Canadian English “bird” is pronounced with an r-flavoured schwa.
You’re confusing orthography and phonology. “may” is spelt in IPA as /mei/, so yes, it’s a diphthong there that English represents using a vowel + Y for historical reasons. Also, there isn’t a y sound in “mate” if you pronounce it at normal speed.
I don’t understand what you mean by “by that reasoning”. But there’s no reason for the r in “beard” to have to be a vowel since it’s followed by a consonant, since that’s never stopped most other consonants before.
Syllable-initially they’re pretty obviously consonants (yam vs am). There are also lots of languages that have phonological rules that involve replacing semi-vowels with other consonants or vice versa, which is a pretty strong argument for them being part of the class of consonants in those languages. For the other stuff, what polymathwannabe said. This stuff is well-studied in linguistics and particularly in phonetics.
I’m about to start working with a remote writing buddy. We’re going to send each other emails for ‘clocking in’ purposes, but we also want to use some kind of screen-sharing or remote login software to keep tabs on each other. Does anyone have any good recommendations for software along those lines? My netbook is sufficiently slow and old that if I’m not careful even typing can get pretty laggy, so resource- or processing-light software would definitely be preferred.
I am troubleshooting my method for writing papers in an attempt to make the process go faster or at least more efficiently. So far, I have asked a couple of my colleagues about their methods, and intend to try to collect a representative sample before I try to extract any important general bits
Today in failures of agency/playing a role as opposed to being a role: I have a friend who is somewhat paranoid with respect to their possessions and physical safety. Said friend recently got their laptop stolen from their lab, which has understandably heightened their paranoia about their lab’s level of security, particularly since their work often involves being there alone at odd hours. It turns out that their lab is even more insecure than was first apparent, and there’s a relatively simple procedure for getting in without any credentials. Friend posted the details of this procedure on Facebook in order to complain about it and garner social support from their close friends. Friend has also complained to their immediate supervisor and been ignored.
It strikes me that at this point Friend seems to be more interested in playing the role of victim than in actually putting effort towards solving their problem. I can think of several strategies I would consider if I was in their situation (eg. keep moving up the chain of authority with my complaints, try to drum up support amongst my coworkers, post the details in as public a venue(s) as possible in order to create public outrage and/or make the issue too well-known to be ignored, etc). The strategy that they actually chose (post the details in a pseudo-but-not-actually-private venue) seems to be one of the worst in terms of actually addressing their problem—not only have they not increased the probability that the security hole will be fixed (since none of us work in the same lab system as they do), but there are now N more people aware of the hole who may or may not accidentally leak the info to others.
Evidence? Is this just a general anti-psych-meds comment or do you have a basis for thinking that in this particular case they’re problematic?
Have you considered posting to the NYC LW mailing list? I don’t think most of them are regularly here these days
..And that’s pretty much the story of how at work we ended up with a hideous orange conference table instead of the nice warm brown our department chair envisioned
I notice that I am confused about what makes a post worthy of being Promoted. This post is well-researched and has an incredibly high score and lots of interesting comments. Is it that MIRI/CFAR/et al are afraid that someone might implement these and later sue if they don’t get results, or somerthing?
As it is, Main but not Promoted is currently the least visible location on the site.
I’ll probably drop in to say hi, but I have too much work due to really hang out
On my way to work, there’s a random piece of graffiti that says “FREE OMEGA”. Every time I pass it I can’t help but think of a boxed AI trying to get out.
I visualise the rotations up until the point where it’s too complex, after which I resort to checking relations