Abe27

I have been very interested in economics and are somewhat untypically in philosophy. While these subjects are and have been interesting i find myself more and more interested in universial truths, i find in data, stats, math and simmilar. I hope to do well in school, so i can really get to understand the subjects, and then use them widely and properbly. i try my best to not just waste my time, while it is hard to spend all my time productively, i try to just do better over time. Do what i want to, but i do often feel like i just did what i used to do. For example i probably spend to much time on my computer, but i don't see what else i should spend my time on honestly?

I have sent my resignation to my work. So i will become unemployed in about 1 months time. Feels good. If i know i have to get some things done, then i like to do it first. Then i will have the rest of my time and day free to do what i would like to. If i go straight into being spontaneous then i most likely won't do what i need to. I suppose i could also could say i just wanted freedom

I have about 8 weeks in the summer holidays before I start university, where I would like to spend my time productively getting ready for university. I am thinking of studying computer science with mathematics and statistics, also called machine learning and data science. For that, I can understand that it is a good idea to learn and program, and since mathematics is such an integral part, I would also like to get a good intuitive understanding of it. Both intended so that I will have a solid foundation to work from. It's just how can I best structure it? I find that I am more productive when I have a plan with assignments, assignments and exercises that are structured with deadlines. So I know what to start with and when I've done it well enough to take time off or not. This presents a bit of a challenge in how I have to arrange it myself. Since I will not fully know how much time and energy learning it will be. I could structure lets say 5 or 6 weeks to learn some material, therefore also have time for a break or to travel and just relax in the holidays. But about learning, i could set aside about 20 hours of expected work a week to study. Making it 100 to 120 hours of total studying? I have found some Learning material Harvard have some free courses in programming, for python and more boradly for data science -https://cs50.harvard.edu/python/2022/ The youtube channel 3blue1brown has some series and videos about the "essence of" -https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown But more in the math department would be ideal, if you have any suggestions? The primary subjects would be discrete math, linear algebra, stats and probability. Also algorithms and programming, but i think the harvard courses are ideal to learn that from. Do you have any recomendations? I have tried doing something similar other years, but i often end up not really doing it. I would like this not to be the case this time

@mr_engineer Sounds like you have a pretty strong anti-bias bias.

It's wild watching a video like that, i can follow his line of bring and agree. I'm turning into such a modern hippie. The major problem with personal inquires is that the truth or knowledge is relative to the methods used. It's very present in the social sciences, and makes it quite tiresome to find the most correct case of how it is.

The thing with AI is that it gives advice based on stats from what it has read, therefore it will most often give quite generic advice, like it does here. I mean, it's good, but it's in no means actual advice that relly can help you achiwe your goals. The low cost index fund option is pretty good, but there are lots of funds, and types of funds. Small cap and value tend to perform better, with higher risk, it mentions nothing about that here. It also dosent get into systematic and ideosyncratic risk, concepts which for the DIY investor are essentiel to understand, to plan out your investment and savings plan.

The problem with teaching a lesson is about it being to indirect and vague. He most likely wont make the connection between it being missing and him treating others bad, it actually could very likely just make him mad, and treat other worse for the time being. If you want to help him via a lesson, and i suppose you would have to frame this very diffrently.

@BlueOak I really dislike the MBTI test, i often get diffrent results over time, at the moment its ITNJ. Much more like the OCEAN model of personality. Alright, is it more of an emotional experience and awakening? Sounds like deep focus buddy? Yeah, it's a construction, the story. And i do find it important to have the basic at place, so i can build upon it. It's like haveing a detailed schedule, such as i can be more spontainous

Could you please elaborate on how the experience feels? Might very well be somehting i can relate to. Them all i suppose, at the moment it is very much about finding out what kind of work and career i would like to do. Having the basics solidly furfilled is something i see as important to make the rest fall into place, and have energy to then focus on them. I don't have much else to say about it, any more detailed explenations of the things i could be doing and focus on? It's not something i have though explicitly much about

@Past-Philosopher-562 While people i have meet in my culture often like to critizie others for only solving problems at the surface, and only treating the worst symptioms. Then they also themself largely like to take the most symptom treating apporach, and only solve the most immediate problems, something i really strongly dislike to do. It's from my viewpoint a sure way to keep having the same problems keep coming up in new and frustrating ways, therefore i have spend a lot of time the past years trying to solve my most basic needs for the fullest potential. I spend most of my teen years learning usefull skills when i saw them needed, got really into lifting, earning money and investing, being well socially, trying to find a girlfriend, doing well in school and smaller hibbits things like cooking and cleaning decently well. This has really made me into a situation surplus today. I see lots of the people my age i know who have tons and tons of basic immediate problems they have to chip away at to survive. Something i would not like to. From a marslows perpective it would be physioloigcal, safety, love and belonging and esteem. Well, now it's much more about self actualization, well, they are all connected. But i feel like i have achived a great amount of freedom and status, and have stopped having it as a thing to worry about, now i think much more about what to do, to have it best.

Buddy, the only thing i have experienced so far is that when i solve my old problems, new once just rise up. The problems just become more and more vague and abstract, harder to find existing insight about how to solve it. Now it's all about life purpose, finding meaning, discovering truth as a now deeply subjective thing, and wondering about what is morality, how am i actually a good or bad person, if it matters at all? No mystical experiences so far.

The "severly" autistic people thing is really dumb. Autism is on a spectrum from the very low functioning to people much more like me. I have an aspergers diagnosis. it seems to me like i just much more rely on logic and reasoning when deciding on how and what to do, and at the same time have a noticible limitation when it comes to, well, emotional inteligens, while it would not frame it like that. It is much more like i just get less information out of the same social situations, and therefore have less to go of by. And at the same time are also noticibly stronger at logic and reasoning, so i can make up parts of it, and excell greatly in certain things, while struggling in others. It would from my point be very nice if everyone was like me, and i think that exactly might be what would be nice. It has less to do with being autistic or not, and more to do with interacting with people of the same culture or mindset. Since we then would understand them better, nothing new here i suppose? I suppose what you really would like is that everyone should be highly inteligent beings that much rather relys on rationality compared to emotionality? A problem with autism is that most autistic people arent smart, they just lack the emotionality, without the intellect to substitute it in any formel way.

@Pav It honestly seems more like satire than a serius recomendation. Since he says things that are by no means a respond or relevant to the questions of my post. @Shodburrito Yes, exactly. Thats one "social reality", which dosent seem good, does it? My idea is to make smart decisions to hopefully better my situation, so i can live a freeier and better life. If that means not working and spending more time studying and attent university, then i suppose it's what i should do.

I would say that you would actually be able to interpret me to that result if you wanted to. And my change in course is now just about spending less time on money, and more on learning, and improving my situation in the long run. I try my best, exercise a couple times a week, sleep what i need, and actually one the reasons i can keep my expenses down, is becouse i eat healtly. Beans, eggs, rice, cabbage, other greans and a little meat/chicken dosent cost much. It's all the processed foods, candy, pre packed meals that are expensive. Yes, thats the hard part. I do, compared to most others, do quite well in therms of keeping descipline, but i also feel myself getting less focused than i would ideally like to be. I remember some years back i would spend all my free time watching educational youtube videos, of high quality in a subject or of a problem i was interested in solving. Where i now spend much more time than i would like to on online forums while listing to music, while this is good for relaxing, it often can turn into the default option even if i am relaxed, and actually moreso need something to do. I'm unsure about what to do with it, i want the motivation and therefore decipline to come from within, since it will make my actions feel and seem much more effortless. But i am unsure about how to chance it from the moreso root couse. Which makes the regular, lower rick option seem more viable, since the failure but also reward is lower.

I don't regret much anymore, i see that the experiences made me into what i am today. But i feel sad when thinking about the actions in my development, the onces i did, and more precisely once others did to me. The times I got hung up for doing something different. The times I did something completely wrong but no one dared to tell me. The times I asked for help, but no help was given. Problems no minor or young adult should stand alone with, but happens to, since every adult does nothing to help or assist the fundamentel course, only treat the absolute most urgent flare ups. It is sometimes strange how thoughtlessly many people are about wanting to tackle the problem at the root, while to a greater extent they actually just criticize others for treating symptoms, when they have almost never done anything else themselves. Pure thoughtless akums razor addicts about truth.