Thanks for the pep talk, I slept on it and feel much better this morning :). Failure is inevitable, and even good sometimes! I've learned a lot from my failed experiments over the last couple of months and am ready to tackle the problems with them.
My main goal was to get back down to my early high school weight which entails losing 9 pounds. I've been surprised at just how easy it is!!!! I've already lost ~3.5. I have some more nebulous goals that I haven't put on the sheet and I'm really struggling with those. In particular, I'd like my research/experiments to affect my self-worth less. My experiments haven't been going well, and it's easy to feel like it's because I'm stupid or incompetent or whatever, even though I know that's not the case. I'm just not sure how to tackle this problem...
Haha I know right?? I always notice your username :)
This is awesome! I want in :)
I have Dropbox, Box, and multiple 1TB external hard drives. I'm totally not paranoid!
I'm listening to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami on audiobook. I never listen to audiobooks, but the narrator for this one is really great and I love me some Murakami! The one annoying thing is that it's taking forever for me to get through since I read so much faster than speaking rate. I'm also reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. I love the story and the execution for the most part, but his writing is just slightly too pretentious for me.
I'll still always pronounce your username as "klein-blow" in my head...
It's the genitive of "caelum", meaning sky in Latin. So it translates to something like "of the sky" :)
Listening to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami. Loving it so far! Also reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
Not to mention the utter shittiness of the analysis. You can't interpret the numerical score on a Likert scale literally -- a score of 3 doesn't mean "profound" unless you have more context. This is why researchers using scale judgments convert them to z-scores so you can say whether they were rated more or less profound than the overall average rating. This all required you to have both unambiguously un-profound and profound statements as well as those in the middle. And as you said, there's no objective way to quantify the profundity! This is why social psychology studies never replicate, they're all ridiculous crap like this.....
Me too! It's my first winter not living in southern California and I want snow, dammit!! Congrats on all the hiking and running stuff, very impressive :DThere's no snow in New York, which irks me.
I actually just did this a couple months ago! I usually would have one cup of coffee a day, in the morning. When I quit I just powered through the withdrawal headaches -- they were only bad for the first week or so. I actually haven't noticed much of a significant drop in energy since then! I drink herbal tea in the morning now, maybe I'm just getting a placebo effect from any hot drink...
Funny because today I just so happened to take a picture of the now dead trees on the river!
Borges' short stories! I love magic realism.
Going to Montreal for the weekend with some friends tomorrow! I'm so excited, I need a little break :D
No, it's humans reading sentences. There's just an insane amount of variability once you get into cognitive research....just one of those days where I lose all my faith in science :(
My experiment isn't replicating. I'm freaking out.
Everything is on fire for me too, so at least we're in that together :)
Lots of work....I'm starting three new projects, so there's a lot of background reading/work there. Plus I'm submitting a project to a conference in 11 days, so I'm working like mad to get a quick second experiment up and running on the web in the next couple days! If any of you use Amazon Mechanical Turk, you should totally do my study ;) Unrelated side note, I've been obsessed with Sibelius these last couple days.
Stephen King's new short story collection comes out tomorrow! Anxiously awaiting for its arrival in the mail!!!! I'll edit in my first impressions tomorrow evening. In the meantime, still chipping away at Les Miserables. EDIT: Sadly it didn't arrive until last night! Since then though, I've devoured the first half of the stories. Here's my verdict: The one "horror" story (Mile 81) wasn't great. It was really heavy-handed and then ended abruptly. The ending was pretty meh, it's similar to his earlier endings which are all pretty bad. The Dune was fantastic and is one of the most King-esque stories in the collection. Premium Harmony is a drastic departure than his usual style, but is really great. Ur is another standout, but it's actually been published before (just not in a collection), so I'm not really counting it as "new".
Cool! Yay for Halloween babies :) there are like 3 other people in my family who were also born on Halloween, it's really bizarre...
Wow. Just wow. “What rules of evidence apply?” one arbitration firm asks in the question and answer section of its website. “The short answer is none.”
Wednesday Addams! I've been meaning to do it for years -- I have a very unique name related to the Addams Family. It was fun :)
Spotify suggested Paloma Faith to me this week. Her songs are so catchy! Here's two I've been listening to a bunch: Leave While I'm Not Looking Only Love Can Hurt Like This
Went to a party on Friday (went as Wednesday Addams!) but didn't do anything yesterday. My birthday is actually Halloween (I'm 22 now!), and I generally like to spend my birthday alone doing something for myself. So yesterday was farmers market and spa day :)
Such an amazing book. That's the one scene that's always stuck with me. It really evokes a visceral feeling of horror as it slowly dawns on you what's going on...
Les Miserables! I've been chugging along slowly here and there for the last few months. 500 pages in, less than 800 to go!
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship application deadline is tomorrow, so the story of my life this past week is the endless cycle of revising, sending to my advisor, revising, sending to my advisor, etc etc. We decided to radically change the research proposal at the last minute so I've been sort of scrambling. But it's turning out really great, and I'm feeling really good about it! I got an Honorable Mention last year, and in my opinion my materials are much better this year so I'm hopeful. Wish me luck!!!
- Drink tea! Current favorite is cinnamon apple, gotta get in that fall spirit yo - Read (fiction or nonfiction) - Go for a long walk by the river
Rediscovered my favorite trilingual ska-punk band, Wisecräcker! Let's not forget they also covered Master of Puppets: