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16:11:46
Shinmera
drmeister: Do you ever get days where you get nothing done? Not as in, no progress made, but as in barely being able to sit down and concentrate on anything
16:13:38
beach
Shinmera: Are you worried because you experience such days? Don't worry, most people do.
16:14:23
Shinmera
I'm not worried that I do. I just don't recall ever hearing drmeister talk about him having one of those days before.
16:16:18
Shinmera
Wanted to get started on implementing geometry clipping for terrain streaming in my game engine, but after reading some papers on it and looking around I just can't get myself to start on it for whatever bloody reason.
16:17:41
drmeister
It's probably not natural for us to be working hard with so much focus all the time.
16:24:37
drmeister
When I was doing my postdoc at Harvard a graduate student committed suicide because they didn't think their advisor supported them strongly enough.
16:25:04
drmeister
All of a sudden the faculty became really interested in the mental well being of the rest of the student.
16:25:46
drmeister
They held an assembly and told us they were instituting large group dinners and bringing in mental health professionals to see what else they could do to improve things.
16:26:51
drmeister
They said it was going to be difficult to find mental health professionals to give advice on a large group of highly motivated, intelligent, aggressive people who are, in the eyes of the outside world, basically crazy already.