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And people call me weird for this! It's about the closest thing the average person has in their house to an isolation chamber. I find it very beneficial to retreat to it after I get stuck on a problem and need to approach it differently. Continuous water heaters are a must though :)
if i didnt have roomates i would put a white board in the shower
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Creating potable drinking water from natural sources requires a little energy. You will probably notice it in your water bill if you start showering twice as long.
I'd expect that showering twice as long would not mean twice the energy required to make that water potable again.
Why wouldn't the energy required be at least linearly correlated with the water amount?
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It's also extremely resource intensive unless you recycle your waste water; nothing wrong with baths!
Google tells me the average bath uses 35-50 gallons of water, while the average shower uses 2 gallons per minute. Which puts the breakeven point at say 15-25 minutes. Although if you live in the midwest like I do, we have infinite water. Use more water? it goes back to lake Michigan and recycled. The gas to heat the water is the only "waste", but you could offset with a solar panel.
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I'd expect that showering twice as long would not mean twice the energy required to make that water potable again.
Why wouldn't it mean that? It would be twice the amount of water. Why wouldn't the energy required be at least linearly correlated with the water amount?
Is that reasoning unrealistic? I don't know a first thing about water treatment.
I'm solving olympiad programming problems almost everyday since October 2015 (mainly on CodeForces, also occasionally on HackerRank, Project Euler, TopCoder, Acm Timus, Uva etc). In total, I spend 15-20 hours per week on solving these problems. Solving these problems is really hard and energy consuming process. So every week, for more than a year, I'm experiencing getting stuck and being really frustrated, having ins…
Can you describe an np complete problem that you have solved?
Let's say there is a relatively simple olympiad puzzle. Also, let's say there is a imaginary robot which should solve this olympiad puzzle. What I said there is no fast universal algorithm for the robot which allows to solve any such olympiad puzzle. The only thing robot can do to solve many (but not all) problems is heuristics with random elements.
I meditate everyday for 20 to 60 minutes. The first ten minutes are usually relaxation and the rest is planning over today's job and, occasionally, my life in general. Before, I used to go for a walk to do that. I also had ideas under the shower. I have found meditation to be more efficient in term of focus.
Forcing myself to do these things has been one of the biggest improvements in my life, in particular in dealing with my anxiety and stress issues.
My first guess would be because it usually happens in the morning and a lot of peoples' brains work best then.
maybe relevant to your theory: http://content.time.com/time/covers/20060116/pdf/Day_Night.p...
It’s part of what déjà vu is. Your brain already pre-calculated a thing that might happen a long time ago when you weren’t noticing, then it actually happened and you're like - Hey wait a sec, I kind of recognize this shit. Shower thoughts are broader, because the range that we use for our creativity is actually limited by our surroundings. For instance, if we're in a social setting around a lot of people, our brains would try to optimize the relations between people, the environment, the posture. There are so many social things that go on in a social setting that occupy your mind, like trying to understand what other people are saying, trying to educate them, tell them things etc.
It’s very consuming to the mind, so when you are in the shower you probably don’t have music, you probably don’t have to think where to go next, or people you are trying to impress. It allows you to free your mind to create and synthesize new ideas using a broad range of inputs that can be a lot more random. This is because they’re not being refined or restricted to the same content matter that exists during the rest of the day, whether we are being influenced by work, or school or by a lover or any other type of social setting.