danielshin

@ByeolEtoileStar @Biolinist7 nunu revved his engine first

🚨 BREAKING: I have been formally charged with vehicular homicide after operating Rift Herald without a license and running over @Biolinist7 in broad daylight. Witnesses say I showed “reckless disregard for turret safety” and “failure to yield at mid lane.” More at 9.

@ByeolEtoileStar big

i got my rabadon’s deathcap

@NTFabiano stay delusionally optimistic!

Mentally healthy people are often delusionally optimistic.

@Odysseus_131 op champ abuser (and I love playing her)

@bobamiffy ai pfp 😭

@bobamiffy LOL

@ByeolEtoileStar agreed!

@danielshinmath yea probably. i dont like having more exams but i like learning, and i feel like i get to learn more topics under the quarter system

4 final exams vs 7 cans of monster who wins?

@ByeolEtoileStar would you prefer that to semesters (if you had the option)

@ByeolEtoileStar already on finals?

@finn_hulse I remember i had this exact problem with 3 bulbs in my statistical computing class test lol

neat no-math quant interview problem + solution: starting at any given moment in their life, type X bulbs are expected to stay alive for x more years, and type Y bulbs are expected to stay alive for y more years. doesn't matter how long they've already been on prove that the probability of a type X bulb outlasting a type Y bulb is x/(x + y) you get the job if no calculus is used

Add it to the wiki

@bobamiffy living life like :luvdance:

the goodnotes whiteboard feature they released last fall is really nice but infinite canvas is bs when u can only load 5000 objects and cant even check how many u have until its too late pls add obj counter or option to consolidate some objects (they already have ocr anyways)

@metabolic_print i’m keeping my competitive advantage

So apparently, a cheap supplement (NAC) can massively improve autism...?

every so often a human being does something that rewires how the rest of the world think about what's possible > neil armstrong stepped onto the moon > usain bolt ran 100m in 9.58s > hathor bjornsson deadlifted 501kg before these moments, the achievement existed only as a fairy tale, ambitious but delusional after? it became a target 4 minute mile, someone broke it, dozen followed. the ceiling wasn't physical, it was psychological. someone just had to go first but all these breakthroughs share underlying logic. push harder, grind, better outcome. peak human performance has always been measured by results. the blood, sweat and tears are just the admission ticket but alysa liu broke a different kind of ceiling. what she showed was not a new record. she showed that the highest form of human potential is enjoying the process. the courage to say if the pursuit of winning kills the joy of doing, you've already lost the thing that actually mattered we live in the age of AI. doomers are afraid of getting replaced. you tie your identity to your output. if you are programmer, claude code writes better lines faster. if you are an analyst, claude crunches numbers in seconds. what's left of you is a shell of nothingness alysa liu shows us that we have been asking the wrong question a machine can eventually land a triple axel triple lutz triple toe with perfection. but that doesn't compare to what alysa liu did. the falls, the morning ice, the moment your body finally understands the rotation. the meaning was never in the landing but the learning and act of doing it people who struggle most in this age are the ones who were already disconnected from the experience. the ones who were every only in there for the output, the status, the paycheck. blame AI all you want, but it did not create the emptiness. it just made it impossible to ignore the ones who would thrive are the ones who were already doing things because the doing itself was the point. the programmer who loves the puzzle. the filmmaker who writes because it's a story she wants to express. the violinist who finds something close to nirvana in the music. for them AI is just another tool in a practice that was always about something deeper than the outcome what alysa showed the world, with or without the medal is: decouple your worth from your output. the outcome was never the point. the act of doing, fully, happy, on your own teams, that was always the real feat. just like every other paradigm-breaking achievements before it, now someone has shown us it's possible, and the rest of us can follow

@bobamiffy delusional optimism

@aakashgupta staying delusionally optimistic

Most people will read this and think optimists live longer because they eat better and exercise more. The study says something wilder. Lee et al. controlled for smoking, diet, exercise, alcohol, depression, BMI, and socioeconomic status. The longevity effect still held. The most optimistic quartile lived 11 to 15% longer and had 1.5 to 1.7x odds of reaching 85 even after removing every behavioral difference. Which means something is happening at the level of biology, not just habits. Rozanski’s meta-analysis across 229,391 participants found optimists carry 35% lower cardiovascular event risk. Blackburn’s Nobel Prize-winning lab at UCSF found pessimistic attitudes are associated with accelerated telomere shortening. Cortisol suppresses telomerase, the enzyme that rebuilds the protective caps on your chromosomes. So chronic negative expectation literally erodes the structures that keep your cells from aging. The loop runs: pessimistic cognitive style → sustained HPA axis activation → elevated cortisol → telomere degradation → accelerated cellular senescence. Optimists interrupt that loop at the top. They show less emotional reactivity to stressors, faster recovery from acute stress, and they default to reframing threats as challenges rather than catastrophizing. The part nobody talks about from this paper: the authors explicitly state optimism is modifiable. This isn’t a personality trait you’re born with. Cognitive reappraisal training, morning sunlight for cortisol rhythm regulation, deliberate breathing protocols for vagal tone, structured gratitude practices. All of these shift the prefrontal cortex patterns that determine where you sit on the optimism spectrum. A 35% reduction in cardiac events from a trainable psychological variable is a bigger effect size than most supplements on the market. That’s the real story buried in this abstract.

@bobamiffy the ever handy “not interested in seeing this option”

@bobamiffy #boom

JUNE 2028. The S&P is down 38% from its highs. Unemployment just printed 10.2%. Private credit is unraveling. Prime mortgages are cracking. AI didn’t disappoint. It exceeded every expectation. What happened?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic