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gms7777 commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

footy · 10 days ago

I don't know how old you are, or how long you've been on Concerta. But to provide a different experience to anyone reading this:

I too got (re)diagnosed in my 30s and prescribed Concerta. Rediagnosed because my mom then told me I'd been diagnosed as a child and she just never told me. Finding the right dose took some trial and error, and to be honest "the right dose" is something that will probably vary throughout my life based on how good my non-medication ADHD management is going. But for me it's been life-changing without burning me out, and it's been almost 7 years.

I also think even without the medication the diagnosis is worth it. It clarifies your life somewhat, if there are things you have struggled with that it explains.

gms7777 · 9 days ago

> I also think even without the medication the diagnosis is worth it.

Yeah, I think our society views so many symptoms of ADHD as the worst type of personal failings, so I think there's a level of trauma associated with growing up undiagnosed and being consistently blamed and shamed for things that were out of your control. Even without medication, getting diagnosed was, for me, the first step towards healing and starting to unpack all that shame.

gms7777 commented on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes bmj.com/content/390/bmj-2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

DrewADesign · 10 days ago

In addition to confirming and quantifying my more obvious and problematic symptoms, the reaction time tests clearly showed my very mild impulsivity. Nobody I know would call me impulsive, and in the questionnaires I’d have said I wasn’t impulsive, even though I had a sense I was subconsciously resisting that tendency. The tests were too quick for my usual masking reflex, and while I was still ultimately diagnosed with the inattentive variant, the tests revealed a textbook symptom I wasn’t even aware of. Quite illuminating.

gms7777 · 9 days ago

I think especially as adults (esp. people that managed to get to adulthood without being diagnosed), a lot of people think they don't have certain symptoms, when really they just have developed elaborate systems for managing those symptoms.

I never related to "time blindness" because I was always consistently early for things, but really I was just deeply anxious about being on time for things. I would set like 10 alarms set, I wouldn't be able to do anything for an hour or two beforehand because I was worried about being late, and I'd usually show up way too early because I couldn't actually estimate when I needed to start getting ready to be on time. That doesn't exactly sound like the behavior of someone with a functional inner clock.

gms7777 commented on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole port.ac.uk/news-events-an... · Posted by u/zaik

n2d4 · 2 months ago

Yea, and it was a great read too. I wish more researchers would publish blog posts alongside their technical whitepapers, although I acknowledge that not everyone involved in science has or wishes to acquire the skills needed to write blog-form content.

(I'd also be worried about a world where researchers are evaluated based on the virality of their blog posts, vs. how impactful their work was.)

gms7777 · 2 months ago

A few years ago, at least in my field, there was definitely a trend of people at least doing twitter threads explaining the key findings of their papers. It's obviously less in-depth than a blog post would be, but it was still usually a far more accessible version of the key ideas. Unfortunately, this community has basically dissolved in the last few years due to the changes in twitter and to my knowledge hasn't really converged on a new home.

gms7777 commented on Square Theory aaronson.org/blog/square-... · Posted by u/aaaronson

gostsamo · 3 months ago

My personal recommendation is this game1. Not for travel, but a very good in forcing interesting associations and making you mad at your partner, which is a certified sign of a good game.
1 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/178900/codenames

gms7777 · 3 months ago

If you like codenames, you might also enjoy decrypto [1], it scratches a very similar part of my brain. There's a set of secret words, and the codemaster needs to give clues that are specific enough that if you know the secret words, you can make the connection, but vague enough that you can't guess the secret words.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/225694/decrypto

gms7777 commented on How to avoid P hacking nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/benocodes

aw1621107 · 3 months ago

> looks like they're missing the most important p-hacking strategy of all: the dogshit null hypothesis

Would you mind giving an example(s) of such and how it differs from a "good" null hypothesis?

gms7777 · 3 months ago

Null hypotheses are often idealized distributions that are mathematically convenient and are often over-simplifications of the distributions we'd expect if there were truly no effect (because the expected distributions are either intractable to work with, or irregular and unknown).

So for example, suppose you want to detect if there's unusual patterns in website traffic -- a bot attack or unexpected popularity spike. You look at page views per hour over several days, with the null hypothesis that page views are normally distributed, with constant mean and variance over time.

You run a test, and unsurprisingly, you get a really low p-value, because web traffic has natural fluctuations, it's heavier during the day, it might be heavier on weekends, etc.

The test isn't wrong -- it's telling you that this data is definitely not normally distributed with constant mean and variance. But it's also not meaningful because it's not actually answering the question you're asking.

gms7777 commented on Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"? · Posted by u/jbornhorst

Night_Thastus · 6 months ago

I'm nearsighted with no astigmatism, so I have a simple -2/-2 prescription (if I remember correctly).

I sit at a screen 8-16 hours a day. I get strong headaches every single day, for which I keep a supply of ibuprofen at work and home. 400mg a day is generally plenty.

I do not wear my glasses while at the screen, as it's close enough that I don't have any issues.

I suspect my headaches are neck muscle related, not eyesight, but I haven't investigated further.

gms7777 · 6 months ago

If you haven't already, you should look into some stretches for tension headaches. For me at least, they don't make the headache go away completely (because often dehydration is a factor as well), but they sure take the edge off.

gms7777 commented on I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled linkedin.com/posts/jdkaim... · Posted by u/jdkaim

nlawalker · 8 months ago

The "trading" is all out of band, the system only sees one person drop their registration and another person fill the slot.

When someone drops a class, the opening becomes available immediately, so you coordinate a time well after the registration rush has died down for one person to click "drop" and the other to refresh the page and click "register". At least that's how it worked when I did it 20 years ago. It was relatively common in the Greek system not to "trade" a class for a class but rather a class for a few beers or the like: prior to registration, if you were an underclassman who really needed to get into a class next quarter that you knew filled up quickly, you'd find an upperclassman (who get access to the system earlier) who was eligible for the class you needed and wasn't full on credits to grab a slot, then a couple days before classes started, you'd have them drop and then grab it for yourself.

At that time (early 2000s), polling bots weren't common, but there were rumors, so people doing this got more careful and actually sat next to each other with their laptops to coordinate the drop and add instead of just picking a time or date.

gms7777 · 8 months ago

I feel like if the university has an issue with it, this could all be fixed by just adding course waitlists. Which is how it was handled at both my undergrad and grad university

gms7777 commented on Stimulation Clicker neal.fun/stimulation-clic... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

cscheid · 8 months ago

Since we're all sharing clicker games, this one by Frank Lantz is a real classic: https://decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

gms7777 · 8 months ago

A Dark Room (https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/) is fantastic as well. It's not only a clicker/idle game, but it incorporates the mechanics in an interesting way.

On the whole, I've had to adopt a policy of not even touching clicker games. I find them incredibly addictive, and most of the time I'm not even enjoying the experience or getting anything out of it, I just feel hooked. I'd say Universal Paperclips and A Dark Room were exceptions to that, in that they actually had some depth, strategy, discovery, or story. But even those two I've had to stop myself from replaycing.

gms7777 commented on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion nytimes.com/2024/12/10/bu... · Posted by u/jbegley

thorum · 8 months ago

Am I missing something or does this NYT article not actually say what the judge based his decision on? That would be an important piece of information to have when deciding whether the decision was good or not.

gms7777 · 8 months ago

From the article: "Judge Lopez said that the bankruptcy auction failed to maximize the amount of money that the sale of Infowars should provide to Mr. Jones’s creditors, including the Sandy Hook families, in part because the bids were submitted in secret. “It seemed doomed almost from the moment they decided to go to a sealed bid,” Judge Lopez said. “Nobody knows what anybody else is bidding,” he added."

gms7777 commented on What do you visualize while programming? dillonshook.com/what-do-y... · Posted by u/dillonshook

meta-meta · 10 months ago

If months are circular for you, in which direction do they progress? A few years ago I realized my mental model of calendar months goes counter-clockwise. No idea why. I'm also aphantasic, so it's a sense of space and movement but I'm not actually seeing a circle. NYE is at 12 o'clock, but January is oddly at 11.

edit: here's the article that prompted me to reflect on this https://nrkbeta.no/2018/01/01/this-is-what-the-year-actually...

gms7777 · 10 months ago

I've never thought about it before but mine is definitely counter clock-wise as well, though NYE can be either at 12 o'clock or 6 o'clock. Brains are weird things.