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Tue, 09 Apr 2019 23:28:56 +0200

ineffableboyfriends: (and reported) idk it’s 1 am and instead of sleeping i drew this

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 22:57:16 +0200

ineffableboyfriends:

(and reported)

idk it’s 1 am and instead of sleeping i drew this

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Tue, 09 Apr 2019 22:25:51 +0200

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saki-yama-hime:“He looks at all the stuff the security cameras...

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 21:22:36 +0200

saki-yama-hime:

“He looks at all the stuff the security cameras record on some weird system he’s got.”

In the future, everyone might use quantum computers

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 20:50:57 +0200

scifigeneration:

by Christopher Bernhardt

A seven-qubit quantum device at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Computers were once considered high-end technology, only accessible to scientists and trained professionals. But there was a seismic shift in the history of computing during the second half of the 1970s. It wasn’t just that machines became much smaller and more powerful — though, of course, they did. It was the shift in who would use computers and where: They became available to everyone to use in their own home.

Today, quantum computing is in its infancy. Quantum computation incorporates some of the most mind-bending concepts from 20th-century physics. In the U.S., Google, IBM and NASA are experimenting and building the first quantum computers. China is also investing heavily in quantum technology.

As the author of “Quantum Computing for Everyone,” due out in March, I believe that there will be an analogous shift toward quantum computing, where enthusiasts will be able to play with quantum computers from their homes. This shift will occur much sooner than most people realize.

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justinderosaphotography:Seek the light

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 20:19:21 +0200

justinderosaphotography:

Seek the light

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Tue, 09 Apr 2019 19:47:52 +0200

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Tue, 09 Apr 2019 19:16:15 +0200

cryptid-creations:

Daily Paint 2330. Russian Blue

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Tue, 09 Apr 2019 18:44:51 +0200

happydorid:

unfinished waxwing

it is said that a person is more lousy with their tertiary than auxiliary function. but in many cases i think they use their tertiary just fine, and without the other functions, i cant even tell that it is not an auxiliary function (e.g. Alita's Fe). so what is the real distinction between the strength of the auxiliary and the tertiary?

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 18:13:03 +0200

I was reading Leonore Thomson last night (I concur with ENTP mod, she’s a genius about MBTI) and she said the extrovert can reach their midlife years without realizing their imbalances, operating entirely on the strength of their dominant and/or their dominant tertiary function before they reach a crisis, whereas the introvert MUST develop their auxilery function almost immediately in order to have any kind of conscious interaction with the outside world. The reason being that the extrovert’s focus is already on the external world, so unless they focus on conscious development of their auxiliary function, they may be out of touch with it for decades. The introvert, having a focus on Self, has no choice but to develop their first extroverted function. But many of them stay in their own heads, resist that development, and choose to try and balance their dominant out with their inferior function instead – which causes problems.

What this means, in answer to your ask, is that whenever you see a strong pair of extroverted functions in an extrovert, you are likely seeing an absence of auxiliary functional development. I face this problem myself almost continually – I have strong Ne and strong Te, but find it hard to stop thinking about everyone else and fixing their needs in order to decide for myself what I want. I’m so used to putting my feelings aside to make rational, practical Te-driven decisions that I am out of touch with my Fi. I’ll give you an example. I knew from a young age I had no interest in romantic relationships or marriage, but society has such a strong emphasis on pairing off, I have tried two separate times to “give it a go.” I wound up with so much anxiety, since I knew this was fundamentally wrong for myself, that I broke out in hives that lasted for months, even though I had found a really nice guy. I was ignoring what my Fi has always known is true for me, and chasing after external solutions to my 6ish anxiety (fear of doing life alone).

The introverts that go without aux development, on the other hand, are too self-isolating and self-absorbed. Instead of the extrovert problem of “I don’t know what I want / foresee / need because I am busy responding to the environment,” they get locked into their heads.

You also run into the opposite problem, where people develop the first function and the second to cope with the first, but never work on strongly developing the third. I see this most often in IXFJ types whose weaker Ti doesn’t seek out any information that doesn’t support what they want to feel / believe is right. They wind up more emotional and less rational than they could be, if they learned to detach, step back, and analyze their situation rather than reacting to it. You also see this in extroverts who are detached from their tert function – the EXFP who is completely selfish 24/7 or the EXTP who doesn’t see the point in being nice to anyone, or the EJ who is all about their dom/aux with no lower openness. In a nutshell, there’s a lot of ways people can mess up their development.

The auxiliary function is the rudder that makes the ship go in the right direction. Without it, the TITANIC is going to hit the iceberg. Sooner or later.

- ENFP Mod

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Mon, 08 Apr 2019 23:28:52 +0200

daddyschlongleg:memes and scum villain go hand in hand if you...

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 22:57:22 +0200

daddyschlongleg:

memes and scum villain go hand in hand if you ask me

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Mon, 08 Apr 2019 22:25:49 +0200

katrinci:These kiddos with their hair down, because cuties.

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 21:54:14 +0200

katrinci:

These kiddos with their hair down, because cuties.

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Mon, 08 Apr 2019 21:22:49 +0200

ashtelle: I colored a doodle I made (but didn’t post)! I wanted...

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 20:50:57 +0200

ashtelle:

I colored a doodle I made (but didn’t post)! I wanted to test the new watercolor brushes in Clip Studio. I loved these brushes!

Ahhh my Xiyao feels ; _____ ;

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Mon, 08 Apr 2019 20:19:26 +0200

Poor sleep triggers viral loneliness and social rejection

Mon, 08 Apr 2019 19:47:49 +0200

neurosciencestuff:

Poor sleep can literally kill your social life.

UC Berkeley researchers have found that sleep-deprived people feel lonelier and less inclined to engage with others, avoiding close contact in much the same way as people with social anxiety.

Worse still, that alienating vibe makes sleep-deprived individuals more socially unattractive to others. Moreover, even well-rested people feel lonely after just a brief encounter with a sleep-deprived person, triggering a viral contagion of social isolation.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, are the first to show a two-way relationship between sleep loss and becoming socially isolated, shedding new light on a global loneliness epidemic.

“We humans are a social species. Yet sleep deprivation can turn us into social lepers,” said study senior author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and neuroscience.

Notably, researchers found that brain scans of sleep-deprived people as they viewed video clips of strangers walking toward them showed powerful social repulsion activity in neural networks that are typically activated when humans feel their personal space is being invaded. Sleep loss also blunted activity in brain regions that normally encourage social engagement.

“The less sleep you get, the less you want to socially interact. In turn, other people perceive you as more socially repulsive, further increasing the grave social-isolation impact of sleep loss,” Walker added. “That vicious cycle may be a significant contributing factor to the public health crisis that is loneliness.”

National surveys suggest that nearly half of Americans report feeling lonely or left out. Furthermore, loneliness has been found to increase one’s risk of mortality by more than 45 percent – double the mortality risk associated with obesity.

“It’s perhaps no coincidence that the past few decades have seen a marked increase in loneliness and an equally dramatic decrease in sleep duration,” said study lead author Eti Ben Simon, a postdoctoral fellow in Walker’s Center for Human Sleep Science at UC Berkeley. “Without sufficient sleep we become a social turn-off, and loneliness soon kicks in.”

From an evolutionary standpoint, the study challenges the assumption that humans are programmed to nurture socially vulnerable members of their tribe for the survival of the species. Walker, author of the bestseller, Why We Sleep, has a theory for why that protective instinct may be lacking in the case of sleep deprivation.

“There’s no biological or social safety net for sleep deprivation as there is for, say, starvation. That’s why our physical and mental health implodes so quickly even after the loss of just one or two hours of sleep,” Walker said.

How they conducted the study

To gauge the social effects of poor sleep, Walker and Ben Simon conducted a series of intricate experiments using such tools as fMRI brain imaging, standardized loneliness measures, videotaped simulations and surveys via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk online marketplace.

First, researchers tested the social and neural responses of 18 healthy young adults following a normal night’s sleep and a sleepless night. The participants viewed video clips of individuals with neutral expressions walking toward them. When the person on the video got too close, they pushed a button to stop the video, which recorded how close they allowed the person to get.

As predicted, sleep-deprived participants kept the approaching person at a significantly greater distance away – between 18 and 60 percent further back – than when they had been well-rested.

Participants also had their brains scanned as they watched the videos of individuals approaching them. In sleep-deprived brains, researchers found heightened activity in a neural circuit known as the “near space network,” which is activated when the brain perceives potential incoming human threats.

In contrast, another circuit of the brain that encourages social interaction, called the “theory of mind” network, was shut down by sleep deprivation, worsening the problem.

For the online section of the study, more than 1,000 observers recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk marketplace viewed videotapes of study participants discussing commonplace opinions and activities.

The observers were unaware that the subjects had been deprived of sleep and rated each of them based on how lonely they appeared, and whether they would want to interact socially with them. Time and again, they rated study participants in the sleep-deprived state as lonelier and less socially desirable.

To test whether sleep-loss-induced alienation is contagious, researchers asked observers to rate their own levels of loneliness after watching videos of study participants. They were surprised to find that otherwise healthy observers felt alienated after viewing just a 60-second clip of a lonely person.

Finally, researchers looked at whether just one night of good or bad sleep could influence one’s sense of loneliness the next day. Each person’s state of loneliness was tracked via a standardized survey that asked such questions as, “How often do you feel isolated from others” and “Do you feel you don’t have anyone to talk to?”

Notably, researchers found that the amount of sleep a person got from one night to the next accurately predicted how lonely and unsociable they would feel from one day to the next.

“This all bodes well if you sleep the necessary seven to nine hours a night, but not so well if you continue to short-change your sleep,” Walker said.

“On a positive note, just one night of good sleep makes you feel more outgoing and socially confident, and furthermore, will attract others to you.” Walker said.