Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video]
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#3Truly inspiring. I am in my late forties, and I was wondering if I have enough time to learn Haskell, now I have no reason not to.
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#4Eat fruit and take cold showers. The last time this was posted, someone said cold showers were the secret to looking young forever.
I can't find much convincing official research (just blogs) to support that cold showers are beneficial to skincare, but I've been taking them nonetheless, and honestly, my pores have looked better :)
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#5I just submitted my own doctoral thesis in fluids to Manchester! This is absolutely stunning, and my day (and life) is better for it.
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#6wow, an exceptional character
what caught my attention is that when asked about his secret to longevity, he said that he eats lots of fruit and takes cold showers
not the first time I'm hearing about cold showers being beneficial; been doing that myself regularly for a few months and I definitely find benefits
this is definitely encouraging to continue
does anybody have a longer experience with cold showers and can share any findings?
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#7Truly inspiring. I am in my late forties, and I was wondering if I have enough time to learn Haskell, now I have no reason not to.
It’s never too late to learn anything. The problem is, are you ever going to be able to put it to good use before forgetting much of it?
I’ve wasted so much time in the past decade learning random shit that I never used, it’s been a poor ROI compared to just continuing to hone the skills and languages I use daily. Really demotivating.
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#8I just submitted my own doctoral thesis in fluids to Manchester! This is absolutely stunning, and my day (and life) is better for it.
Congratulations, doctor!
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#9wow, an exceptional character what caught my attention is that when asked about his secret to longevity, he said that he eats lots of fruit and takes cold showers not the first time I'm hearing about cold showers being beneficial; been doing that myself regularly for a few months and I definitely find benefits this is definitely encouraging to continue does anybody have a longer experience with cold showers and can s…
I keep hearing the secret to longevity is exercise.
Maybe cold showers would help you look younger though. But a lot of things will help you look younger.
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#10Truly inspiring. I am in my late forties, and I was wondering if I have enough time to learn Haskell, now I have no reason not to.
It’s never too late to learn anything. The problem is, are you ever going to be able to put it to good use before forgetting much of it? I’ve wasted so much time in the past decade learning random shit that I never used, it’s been a poor ROI compared to just continuing to hone the skills and languages I use daily. Really demotivating.
If you’re a working programmer using a mainstream language, then I feel that spending some time with an ML-derived language such as Haskell and a Lisp will pay dividends in your day to day practice.
There are some keen insights about computing that are revealed by these languages - and those insights are transferable to your daily work in JS, C#, Python, Java, etc to some degree.