>Mobility and a willingness to learn new skills seems to prevail. It's what other generations have done, millions of immigrants (my parents included).
For an individual this might be a solution (even for me! I've moved around lots too)
But for a whole society it's not. Especially when we seem to be hearing similar stories across thousands of towns and cities. Is everyone supposed to move to the bay area, NYC, Boston, Seatle? What is the housing going to look like? Does the rest of the country just empty itself?
We shouldn't ever confuse machine learning with predicting the future -- just because you've never encountered a black swan in the wild, doesn't mean they don't exist.
That being said, the article otherwise seems like a great introduction. Not sure why they chose that title.
Anyone have recommendations for video ad providers? I would like to embed ads to play before a stream starts, but would also like to do it in the most ethical way possible.
Perhaps off-topic but can anyone recommend coffee shops in central Europe that have this type of atmosphere? Right now I live in a smaller city (not far from Frankfurt, Germany), and the majority of places here are not laptop/work friendly. Instead, they have waiters serving tables and most people are meeting and talking with friends.
I'm from the northeast US so I miss the cafe culture and general workaholism there. If someone could recommend cafes and cities in general that have this and are within a 6 hour train ride from Frankfurt, you'll help me find my next vacation location.
I meant people near me -- either in my city or somewhere within an hour away. I struggle to find people around my area to socially code with.
Meetup.com already provides a way to filter events by location, but the problem is, people need to pay to register events, plus sometimes you are looking for just one or two other people and dont need a whole group.
I wonder why the techcrunch article just got flagged?
(how do you even flag something here, do you need to have an account with a certain number of points?)
Realize it is likely you feel this way for a reason, and it is a sign of health. Do an inventory of the main pieces of your life and note which situations are causing you pain:
- work life
- living/housing situation
- physical health (including movement, sunlight, eating habits and sleep)
- general social life (do you have spontaneous positive interactions with acquaintances, coworkers, baristas etc.)
- personal social life (relationships with partners/family and close friends)
If you are feeling depressed I can bet you more than one thing on this list can deserve attention. Pick one you can change for the better immediately and work on it. For instance, if you are lacking social interaction in general, go pick up a coffee someplace that is not too busy and either smile and make brief small talk with someone working there or another customer. If you don't like your apartment, put effort into finding a new one. Talk to your partner or get relationship counseling. Things are not going to magically become perfect overnight, but small things every day add up over time.
If it is someone you love:
Listen if they are talking, talk to them if they are quiet. Generally be supportive. Search for a positive thing they are doing or want to do and give them positive reinforcement for it. They are stuck in a negative thought cycle and try to encourage something in them that is working. Here is an example:
Friend: "my life sucks. I hate my job, my expenses are too much for what I make, and on top of all that, I just found out that my girlfriend is selling herself to strangers on Craigslist. I already confronted her about it, but she just says to accept her entrepreneurial polyamory and get over it. At this rate, I am never going to get a phd in deep learning or do a startup or have a stable family like I want"
You:
"cool you want to get a phd? yeah I've heard about deep learning it sounds cool... which programs would you want to do/ what projects do you want to work on etc."
Remember that scene in fight club where Durden orders the clerk to follow his dream of going to vet school? Something like that. Listen to them to figure out where they want to be headed, and encourage that.
It is notoriously difficult to work in, with way too many open spaces (open in the sense of being public, as well as open in the sense of having random 3-story-high atriums of air above you in some places for no discernable reason) and not enough quiet nooks that are conductive to focused work.
Depends on what program you're in? In general I think grad school (esp. the PhD level compared to Master's) typically gives the student a lot of freedom. At the PhD level often you are basically an independent researcher and might meet with your advisor once every three weeks or so.
If that were the case, and you could complete enough work to keep your advisor happy within one week, that gives you two weeks of time to use...
What would be a real-time OS? I'd be interested in hooking up a bunch of independent boards that could interact with each other, and have as quick as a response to sensors as possible... Do you have any advice as to where to start with this type of project?
For an individual this might be a solution (even for me! I've moved around lots too)
But for a whole society it's not. Especially when we seem to be hearing similar stories across thousands of towns and cities. Is everyone supposed to move to the bay area, NYC, Boston, Seatle? What is the housing going to look like? Does the rest of the country just empty itself?