/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.8413935]

So if drinking alcohol helps doing creative things while coffee helps while doing perpetual works, what should be consumed more if one were to be an actual scientist?

In fact what is the best diet to help you with what you are doing right now? Not just wether it's coffee or alcohol but also overall nutrition intakes

[Anonymous No.8413958]

>>8413935
Exercising is the best thing you can do for your brain

[Anonymous No.8413967]

>>8413935
Amphetamine

[Anonymous No.8414057]

Cocaine.

[Anonymous No.8414093]

Ketamine mixed with datura.

[Anonymous No.8414118]

>>8413935
>So if drinking alcohol helps doing creative things

[OHP No.8414250]

A nice mix of caffeine and nicotine gets me to very nice state of brain chemistry for research. It's equally important to have a nice environment in which to work, though. The occasional acid trip helps me gain new perspectives on things, and alcohol and weed help me unwind on rare occasion, although I prefer playing music or violent video games because they don't induce long-lasting inebriation.

[Anonymous No.8414256]

>>8414250
kek

[Anonymous No.8414259]

>>8413958
This. And with exercising he means cardio sport.

[Anonymous No.8414956]

>>8414259
But gains

[Anonymous No.8414961]

>>8413935
Soylent.

[Anonymous No.8415090]

Combo alcohol and caffeine, always puts me in a good mood and helps me get things done.

[Anonymous No.8415176]

Modafinil.

[Anonymous No.8415185]

I feel like coffee consumption over a few days makes my visualization of mathematics much more difficult than while not using it. I stopped it for this very reason and all my visualization power returned and I could see graphs and sequences very vividly again.

[Anonymous No.8415309]

>>8413935
What you want is something that gets you to reproduce exactly the raw data that you receive perceive, so basically you want something that will make you encode all sorts of information. So the test will be writing down what you have perceived from moment X to Y, ie X is 7 AM and Y is 7 PM of a day Z. When this habit reaches a plateau, you will be able to test substances like nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, methylphenidate, amphetamines, modafinil etc This will also make it possible to test habits like meditation, exercise, mindsets etc

I am Physics undergrad and the way I am living is that I work every single day, I meditate(breath awareness), I smoke ONE rolled natural tobacco in the morning, I take 420 mg of pure caffeine after lunch. I don't think alcohol increases creativity, but I do think it is a potent nootropic and in fact it is considered doping in sports and e-sports, whilst caffeine isn't considered doping. The way to develop self-hacking is basically being motivated to do so, in other words, being day by day unsatisfied with yourself.

[Anonymous No.8415329]

>>8415185
Do you take any other drugs?

[Anonymous No.8415337]

>>8415329
Nope. But I am schizophrenic so it could just be synesthesia.

[Anonymous No.8415342]

>>8415337
My problem is that I feel like an undisciplined cuck when using stimulants.

[Anonymous No.8415370]

>>8413935
I did a research project this past summer and caffeine consumption is what got me through the tedious parts. In general it helped me carry my concentration for hours everyday. I enjoyed psychedelics for wringing out my brain every other week. That last part was better for my overall mental health which indirectly affected my work.

[Anonymous No.8415374]

I have a done a fair amount of drugs. I don't dring coffee, only alcohol (once a week) and loads of water. I smoke weed maybe once a month to relax and laugh with friends.

[Anonymous No.8415391]

>>8414259
how do I acheive Turing mode?

[Anonymous No.8415393]

>>8415176
+1

[Anonymous No.8415394]

Why did every single post in this thread make me laugh.

[Anonymous No.8415420]

>>8415185
Agreed. Caffeine makes me a work horse but I lose that "spark" of the mind.

I swear when I take a week off of caffeine, colors seam more vibrant. Particularly green. When I look at trees or grass they just seem to pop.

[Anonymous No.8415423]

Hey /sci/ I don't drink or do drugs, I don't ever drink coffee

But with my increased workload, and need to stay concentrated for long period of time, do you think coffee can help? is it worth it or no?I have begun exercising more and it's been helping me, but i'm curious how much it actually helps coffee

Are there any supplements you recommend that I take too? I take Vitamin C every day

[Anonymous No.8415434]

>>8415423
Coffee is disgusting and for plebeians. Tea is okay.
I recommend ground guarana seeds for caffeine.

If you want to stay awake and functional, I recommend cacao beans and kava. Mixed. Start with the cacao, then an hour later drink / eat the kava. Continue with the kava until inebriated. Continue consuming the chocolate until the desired level of stimulation is achieved.

There's an initial dip in mental performance and level of consciousness, but once you pass through this, you'll be capable of staying awake and functional for days. Maintainance just requires occasional intake of chocolate (which appears to do nothing, this is an illusion, it's still serving its purpose), and kava. It's almost uncanny. I've used this to great effect, and it has no impact on cognition, focus, reasoning, or memory. Just be careful not to overdo it on the kava.

[Anonymous No.8415440]

>>8413935
don't do drugs, it will ruin your brain

>in b4 'hurrdurr muh lsd'

talking about how acid awakened your mind isn't going to look good on your resume

[Anonymous No.8415443]

>>8414250
>A nice mix of caffeine and nicotine gets me to very nice state of brain chemistry for research

no they relieve the withdrawal symtpoms which make you feel shitty as the baseline

[Anonymous No.8415572]

Kek sorry I must've mixed alcohol with beer then
Just happen to know that from the attached infograph so

>>8415434
I drank tea looking for the same effect coffee could give, but mostly it just didn't work as strong as coffee did, even with coffee having the lower amount

[Anonymous No.8415576]

>>8413935

ritalin

[Anonymous No.8415581]

>>8415440

yeah mate that's why I tried lsd, so I could put it on my fucking cv

[Anonymous No.8415618]

>So if drinking alcohol helps doing creative things while coffee helps while doing perpetual works

(not true by the way)

[Anonymous No.8415629]

creatine. increase the availability of short term ATP regeneration to the brain for IQ boost.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691485/

[Anonymous No.8415635]

High fat
Good cholesterol
Low carb
Medium protein
HIIT

All my best proofs I got when I was running walking pacing

Drugs only give short term gains

Acid and psilocybin is playing roulette with your brain. They don't give you super powers they only decrease frontal lobe activity. You become unable to know that you have damaged yourself because the drug impairs that ability. The tragic irony of acid users claiming "insight" is actually just them experiencing their own thoughts from a lower iq version of themselves. That's why they think their experience was profound, not because it actually was. Also risking recurring hallucinations and permanent* decrease in frontal lobe activity. Not everyone comes back from a trip. Acid is not alcohol you might not sober up the next day or month or year.

[Anonymous No.8415640]

>>8413958
if that was true nerds would be a lot dumber than they are. checkm8

[Anonymous No.8415806]

>>8415635

rather unscientific of you to be making assumptions about the consequences of psychedelics in a field where there a) is very little literature b) you clearly havent looked at the literature that is available.

[Anonymous No.8415835]

>>8415635
t. someone who only heard about LSD from fear mongering medias.

[Anonymous No.8415893]

>>8414250
spotted the normie

[Anonymous No.8415895]

>>8415635
>Acid and psilocybin is playing roulette with your brain. They don't give you super powers they only decrease frontal lobe activity. You become unable to know that you have damaged yourself because the drug impairs that ability. The tragic irony of acid users claiming "insight" is actually just them experiencing their own thoughts from a lower iq version of themselves. That's why they think their experience was profound, not because it actually was. Also risking recurring hallucinations and permanent* decrease in frontal lobe activity. Not everyone comes back from a trip. Acid is not alcohol you might not sober up the next day or month or year.
I've never even done acid but this is stupid as fuck. Stop posting.

[Anonymous No.8416062]

Weed is good for getting a new perspective. Sometimes after hitting a wall on a problem a bit of cannabis suddenly makes it seem so obvious. I'm talking about purely creative/philosophical thoughts here, trying to do actual work on it is a no go.

[Anonymous No.8416066]

>>8415635
well you're a gushing vagina

[OHP No.8416102]

>>8415443
I dunno, I feel pretty damn great most of the time. Yesterday I rated my contentedness at a full 10/10, one of the only times. Granted, I was mathgasming, but the substances fueled my study session.

>>8415893
Haha, okay. Keep your eyes on your normie detector, I will be over here learning glorious mathematics.

[Anonymous No.8416107]

>>8416102
Kek okay, not that guy, but what is "glorious mathematics?"
>Protip: algebraic topology

[OHP No.8416109]

>>8416107
Higher categories, homotopy theory (including algebraic topology), and some of the categorical constructions generalizing out of differential geometry (general Chern-Weil theory, et cetera).

[Anonymous No.8416113]

>>8416109
what happened to hodology?

[Anonymous No.8416116]

Krokodil if you don't care about losing your skin.

[OHP No.8416124]

>>8416113
I put it on firm footing and found how it fits in the grand scheme of things (well, for the most part; it forms a cohesive topos over sets, and I want to see if there is some site of definition for it), but it's sort of too analytic for my taste. I haven't encountered any problems or questions where it has come up, so it's just a tool in my toolbox for now. It would be cool to find the site to be something really structurally simple, and then see if sheaves over comparable sites inherit a notion of distance in the same way. If I can pin down the passage from local structure to distance comparison, then it could help bridge the gap making analysis so challenging to talk about categorically.

[OHP No.8416131]

>>8416124
Oh, also, it would be nice to find a way to translate inductive definitions of spaces into results about their homotopy types. For instance, n-spheres admit a super simple inductive definition in terms of hodological spaces: the discrete space on two points is simple to construct, and then the n-sphere is the unique space (modulo hodology) with the property that the space of equidistant points from any two distinct points is an (n-1)-sphere.

[OHP No.8416146]

>>8416131
Oh my! I think I realized what the site is. It's just the frame of opens on the Sierpinski space! What is interesting is that, regardless of what set you choose, the frame of opens on the corresponding codiscrete space is always the same. Because of this, you geometrically can't tell the difference between two infinitesimal neighborhoods (in my theory they are called locations). It seems entirely possible to translate things into a distance comparator! This is really cool. I wonder if anyone has worked on this topos, because it seems interesting; the local pieces are just infinitesimal neighborhoods. The distance between points must only be determined by the "weight" of each location on some "canonical" path between them. In this sense, distance is something like the global version of point density. I am willing to bet there is a universal distance comparator that only relies on the distribution associated to a space, analogous to how we can extract the Haar measure universally from a group action.

[Anonymous No.8416528]

>>8414093
Fuck man. You will be doing some serious science after that.

[Anonymous No.8416538]

>>8413935
>So if drinking alcohol helps doing creative things
>while coffee helps while doing perpetual works
Take your psuedo-science back to /r/science right now faggot.

[Anonymous No.8416543]

LSD or 2C-E microdose.