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stasbar

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About stasbar

Software developer and PhD candidate in informatics. I love reading, thinking, writing and programming.

Professionally, my research interests are in the area of blockchains, cryptography, distributed systems, and secure computation.

As a hobby, my research interests are in the area of philosophy, and mathematical and cognitive psychology.

My lifelong side project is a machine-learning self-surveying personal decision-making algorithm.

Key values in my life are Usefulness, Efficiency, Openness, Simplicity, and Freedom.

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    The definition comes from Alfred Adler, more precisely the book “The courage to be disliked”.

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    Thank you for your comment. My goal was to be as succinct as possible and cover most of the cases of “casual” feeling of loneliness. Although I still believe that self-understandin…

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    I agree with most of what you said; however, I believe that once you really understand yourself you also: 1. Understand others, therefore can describe them in a way suited to their…

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    Is high school logic less sound, valuable, legit? Also, I would not be surprised if Nobel price ideas were invented under the shower. Actually it's the most likely that synthesis h…

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    Psychometric tests or neuroscience may be the "thermometer" of both loneliness and self understanding, at least approximate one.

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    Logical equations explain the principles of the universe, they made us travel to the moon, why wouldn't they be able to explain phenomena related to feelings?

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    I'm curious what do you think about this relationship between loneliness and self-understanding?

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    Good point. That's why a lot of people (who use online tests only) get mistyped and cross out the theory. Many cognitive biases hinder revealing our true selves and so our true per…

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    Internet, LinkedIn, Tinder, Reddit, Discords are full of people labeling themselves using strange letters like ENTP, ISTJ, ENFP, INTJ, HDMI, USB, WTF? In this article I explain wha…

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    Practical Vim seems amazing, pushed it on top of my to-read stack :D By "Wait But Why" you mean this one ? The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why by Tim Urban

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    Man search for meaning - I think that most people, at some point in their life face with the big question "What is the purpose of life ?". Author of this book is the one who can ha…