/hob/ - Hobbies

>>68723
>>68724
Ragatha is way cuter than Pomni

>>68724
>>68725
>>68726
God fucking damn it.
Why can't you be normal?

>>68727
this isn't exactly the place to say that

>>68729
This also isn't the place to lust over some raggedy children cartoon character like a degenerate.

I started self-studying math 3 years ago, have read many books already, started with basic pre-calculus stuff and now Im reading my 2nd book on differential geometry. I've found it made me sharper and helped revert actual cognitive deterioration.
How is the study going for you wizs? Have you found any benefits besides enjoyment?
>>66210
Don't be shy to look at solution online, then write them down (important) while making sure you understand each step, at the start you will do it for most excercises and you will slowly develop technique.

>>67895
I made this post >>64921 when i first started to study math seriously, I am now able to understand General Relativity quite well, only because of Eigenchris's youtube channel.
>Have you found any benefits besides enjoyment?
Understanding 'advanced' physics concepts which I previously had to read pop-sci to learn about, and pop-sci is horrible at explaining anything. The explanations of general relativity and black-holes are so stupid, saying things like 'time and space switch in a blackhole' when in reality its just the tangent space of the observer being affected by the intrinsic curvature of 'space-time.'

How do you guys get through texts? I am currently trying to get through "The Book of Proof"

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>>68091
>read chapter in x days, page by page until I understand each theorem and its proof
>do at least 30% of the proposed exercises

>>68091
Creating Anki decks of the books I read as I go along have been a huge help in allowing me to grab concepts and make connections. Had I started doing this in undergrad, classwork would have been trivial. So I have been working through new stuff and also re-examining my old textbooks related to what I use in my work.
It takes some practice to make good cards for mathematics, it took me about 3 months of making cards for an hour a day before I really developed a sense of what to do.
I reference the 20 Rules from SuperMemo a lot. https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulating-knowledge

2) Focusing
The ability of focusing is lost in the 21st century. Learning without focusing is time wasted so you have to improve your ability to focus. Average attention span of a young adult is 72 second[1].

Benefits and use of focusing skill:
-High level of productivity
-The ability to learn hard things faster

So, how do we work without distraction? There are various methods:
-Pomodoro Technique: A good technique for entry level and quite popular. Work for 25 minutes without any distraction (no phones, and if possible no internet). Give a 5 minute break and again no phones, no social media no music.

Even though pomodoro is a nice technique, it doesn't improve your focusing skill, you can't work 25 minutes for your entire life. Thinking deeply means working with the same focus by constantly increasing the hours. which brings us to monastery technique.

-The Monastic Approach: Study like a monk, without internet and any sort of social interaction. For most of you this is not a viable method, you shouldn't have any other responsibility than your main focus.

A more viable approach that is better suited for most people is to study like a "monk" for 3 or 4 days of the week and use internet moderately the rest of the days. Still requires very careful planning.

-The Rhythmic Approach: Determine the time and the place you will work. Examine a week of your life and determine the best time for study, and work in those hours every week. I think this is the best approach for beginners.

-The Journalistic Approach: Switching into deep work mode whenever possible, even with an unpredictable schedule like you are a journalist. Requires a high level of discipline and mental agility. This is very hard for beginners.

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one thing i realized about "learning" is that it's not a simple linear process and usually the most mainstream "common sense" approach is always misguided in some way and you have to tinker and experiment and dig deep into successful people's descriptions of what they did in order to find what exactly got them to that point. the reason people fail to learn is because the instructions are generally bad, they're based on some idea of how things are supposed to be learned. you sit down, open a textbook or go to class and then you learn, but it's never as simple as that. to learn math, you need to go beyond the textbook and really gain an intuition of the objects themselves and then, if you're successful, the formal crap takes care of itself because it flows downstream from a good intuitive understanding. if you want to learn how to play an instrument, you don't start by memorizing a bunch of music theory, you have to ultimately tinker until you find a feedback loop that actually works and lets you improve. if you want to learn a language, you don't study grammar, you gradually build an intuitive understanding by exposing yourself to simple sentences and working your way up to more and more complex language until you acquire it subconsciously. that's the kind of shit that you only figure out through trial-and-error and experience.

which leads me back to focus and discipline, things that people try to brute-force even though a lack of focus and discipline just means that your "learning" method is frustrating and isn't bringing you tangible results. once you find the right method, the work becomes natural and compelling, no need to fight yourself and keep hitting your head against the wall. when things work, it's easy. when things do not work, change your approach until it's easy.

>>68096
I dunno setting concrete goals only makes me less motivated generally. I will just look at it and think "woah I have to do that much?" and lose heart. If I just keep it vague I will feel okay as long as I make any sort of progress, instead of comparing with the specific end goal.

the whole of clavicula salomonis, which I think is just what the wiz above posted

>>68607
>going uphill momentarily?
yes, a river crossing a mountain going uphill and then go down

>>68607
like this

Some dharma studies can be quite esoteric, very practical in use especially when dealing with suffering and loss in life. -

From experience I suggest just read up and apply the basic teaching and master that. The basis of dharma is practical life advice that can bring you to a state of skillful means and attunement with subtle magic.

>>67595
As for today nobody has been able tell how kabbalah could ever best this.
>yea i'm shilling
>thanks to this i lost the anxiety for getting a slaveplace
>i stop chasing their crap
>after they told me stupid rabble like "why do you want to work with us" or "i don't see you quite motivated"
>i even had to publicly scorn a mid-management sucker in front of everyone because he mobbed me
>it felt damn great, i even got paid and extra not like normies who stayed there sucking cock or just resigning because they could stand the douche
>and i got paid after being fired for that
>still running on this, it's lifechanging
>you can tell it's great because of much hatred it gets from wizmods and soyfags around here

>>68675
I checked this Human Design thing out, and it seems that the only thing that matters in this is your date and time of birth? That's really not convincing, it's just a different kind of astrology. What about early births, or medical situations where the child had to be prematurely extracted through c-section? Does Human Design account for that, or should those people add a few days or weeks to their date of birth?

Just like with astrology, the info they give is applicable to almost everyone, I mean everyone will think "this about me so much fr fr" upon reading the results. And if a trait doesn't match, you could make the argument that it's a hidden trait that hasn't yet manifested itself.

Sorry, but no.

>>68639
I found this group I'm playing with years ago using Roll20. Maps and dice are handled through Roll20 but we use Discord for audio. I'm not sure why they don't use the audio from Roll20, this group had this roll20/discord thing going before I arrived. I know ib users despise discord and perhaps with good reason, but considering purely the technical side of things, using discord for audio is very convenient. As for the game system, we switched around a couple of times but the most fast paced, easy to learn (because, really, there's almost nothing to learn, you roll a d20 for basically everything) is a game called Old-School Essentials which is a rewrite and cleaning up of D&D BX, a very straightforward, no nonsense system. I hope you guys get together to play some, it's a fascinating experience. In my case it became a prison and that's why I'm harsh about it, but you shouldn't pay too much attention to it, it's mostly self-loathing like I said in a previous post.

>>68643
>>68647
Well, I've thought about it, and I don't think it would work well on wizchan. It would be too slow to be enjoyable, and would require so much simplification that it would just be interactive storytelling.
I encourage you to look into play-by-post games, I'm sure you'll find an opportunity to try it, entirely over text. There are websites and forums dedicated to this.

[ 1d100 = 82 ]
If 88, we will start a Myfarog campaign (no succubus player characters)

>>68659
>Myfarog
based

>>68659
May God save us from paying for rentals like those subscription games, what a cuckery.

>they give you access
>you give them some money
>deal comes to and end
>they have the game and the money
>you have none of them anymore

foul!

Gave myself some sort of back injury doing squats with poor form and going up in weight too fast now I'm having to not go to the gym for a week to recover. At least my gym has a pool I can go to for some cardio that's light on the joints. Remember to be careful wizards.

>>68133
Spinal decompression should be done before and every heavyweight back and leg sets. Just 15 seconds of hanging from a bar can help

>>68115
I thought that mixed grip was more liable to cause a bicep injury in the arm that's supinated.

>>68670
It is. Reverse grip has no benefit. If it's the only grip that is comfortable then there is something wrong with your wrists, and endangering your entire arm isn't worth making a HIT exercise more comfy.

>>68671
Mixed grip is used to lift more weight during dead lift when not wearing straps. It has nothing to do with comfort.
>>68670

Usually it's a trade off between making it easier to bail to avoid leg and back injures, but there is a slight increase in the risk to bicep injury.
This is in the context of lifting very heavy, like near or even at the very limit of your strength. So no matter what you are dealing with a risk of serious injury. Mix grip is a way of mitigating certain risk for a lesser one.

>>68579
Not sure yet, I am writing it as I go along, with only a very rough outline that is mostly in my head.

It feels like a big enough story to justify a full novel but I am not sure if I have it in me to write that much when I only have 2 days a week to dedicate to long writing seassion.
Other then those days I spend the rest with editing and may adding a paragraph or two in while waiting for my next days off.

It means a lot of it gets banged around in my head for awhile before it actually gets written down.

>>68581
if you need help ask us!

>>68624
>opens
>sees drawing
>closes without even reading
Nope

>>68644
Kek

>>68626
Now the shadow ignores the noose

>>68768
>>68754
I don't see the diffrences

>>68769
Half the white is shaded over in the first but I didn't do the same for the arms and legs

>>68770
I see now thank you

>>68771
Then all is well

>>68500
>using spanish as a way to mock me instead of using the english term "chilean"
I am CELIBATE, you spiritual weakling

the fuck is arg

>>68499
>>68506
to be fair, this dude's itch might be scratched if he just went to an "escape room" or LARPed or whatever. plenty of groups/orgs out there that are a mere web search away.

honestly not even sure what he's on about with all the other shit though lol

>>68496
temple ov blood jumpscare