Study calculus.
not because exams exist.
because reality moves.
• derivatives → how things change
• integrals → how change accumulates
• limits → what happens at the edge
• gradients → where systems want to go
• differential equations → how nature evolves
motion, heat, fluids, control, optimization, robotics, ML.
all of it speaks calculus.
without it, you see outputs.
with it, you see dynamics.
Did you know Pikachu has a surprisingly consistent “language” in the anime and fans have decoded what many of his “Pika” variations actually mean?
• “Pikapi” = Ash
• “Pikachu-Pi” = Misty
• “Pika-Chu” = Brock or Axew
• “Pikaka” = Dawn
• “PiPiPi” = Togepi
• “PikakaPika” = Bulbasaur
• “PikaPika” = Squirtle and several other Pokémon
• “PiPi-kachu” = Team Rocket
• “Pi-Pikachu” = Victory cheer (“I did it!”) said after winning badges, catching Pokémon, etc.
• “Pika-Pikachu” = Referring to or introducing itself
• “Chaa” = Happy/excited sound or yawning
• “Pika!” = “Wait!”
• “Pi-kaPika” = “Goodbye”
• “Piiika-Chuuuuuu!” = Thunderbolt
• Other move calls like “Pika-Pika-Pika-Pika-Pika-Pika, Chuuu Pii!” for Electro Ball are also consistent
Ikue Ōtani has voiced Pikachu for 25+ years and has kept these exact speech patterns remarkably consistent across thousands of episodes.
Note: While these patterns are very consistent and repeatable in the anime, this is not an officially confirmed full language by Game Freak or The Pokémon Company. Team Rocket once called it “Pika-speak” in a single episode, but these meanings are fan-decoded interpretations based on context and repetition rather than official canon.
A HARVARD psychologist says: “if you’ve achieved nothing by 25, you’ve avoided the most destructive illusion of youth”
> In 2021, a Harvard psychologist surprised a lecture hall with an unexpected statement:
“If you haven’t accomplished much by 25, you may have escaped one of youth’s biggest illusions.”
At first, the room laughed.
She wasn’t kidding.
> The illusion of early success.
In your early 20s, the brain seeks quick proof of worth ~status, attention, rapid achievements.
But psychologists warn that chasing recognition too soon can lock people into roles or paths they never consciously chose.
They decide too early… and spend years trying to undo it.
> The exploration phase.
Research on career development suggests that people who explore more before 30 often build stronger long-term directions.
Testing ideas.
Making mistakes in public.
Changing course.
At 25 it looks like confusion ….but by 35 it often turns into clarity.
People who feel “behind” in their mid-20s frequently gain something others miss:
Perspective.
Patience.
And a clearer sense of what truly matters to them.
That foundation often leads to better decisions later on.
At the end of the lecture, the psychologist left the students with one final thought:
“You’re not meant to have life fully figured out at 25.”
“You’re meant to discover who you’re not.”
Es sábado por la noche. Decides ir al cine a ver una peli que acaba de salir. no conoces nada de ella, pero el trailer está guapo. El imperio final, se llama. Ves aparecer en pantalla a un señor bastante guapo con cicatrices en los brazos y la mitad del cine de pone a aplaudir🚬
Why Stranger Things Season 5 Is One of the Worst Final Seasons of Television and How It Ruined the Show’s Legacy :
The Duffer Brothers claimed that the final season of Stranger Things would recontextualize everything and tie every storyline together.
fun fact the same creators of Dark got their show 1899 cancelled after only 1 season even though they actually had SOLID plans for 3 seasons because of high production costs yet the last stranger things season had a 400 million budget and it was shit. Fuck you Netflix
Tendemos a asumir que a lo largo de la historia la gente ha tenido el mismo rango de emociones. Sin embargo, el historiador Rob Boddice, líder de un campo revolucionario llamado "historia de las emociones y los sentidos" (desde el centro HEX en Tampere, Finlandia) plantea que las emociones, sensaciones y experiencias humanas no son universales ni atemporales, sino productos culturales, históricos y contextuales. No podemos asumir que un dolor, amor, miedo o ira en el pasado se sentían igual que hoy.
Por ejemplo, ¿qué sentía un carpintero medieval al golpearse el dedo? No basta con proyectar nuestro dolor moderno. El contexto cultural (creencias, lenguaje, entorno) moldeaba la percepción misma del dolor. Boddice crítica la idea de emociones universales: Rechaza las 6 emociones básicas de Paul Ekman: felicidad, tristeza, miedo, ira, sorpresa, disgusto. Para Boddice, esto es reduccionista, las emociones son heterogéneas y cambian con el tiempo y la cultura.
Según él, el concepto central es la experiencia, no se trata solo de emociones aisladas, sino una fusión de sensaciones, percepciones, creencias y contexto que define cómo se vivía la realidad (olores de ciudades del siglo XIX, duelo en cartas de viudas de la I Guerra Mundial, etc.).
La implicación sería que si las emociones son construidas culturalmente, entender el pasado requiere empatía histórica cuidadosa, no proyecciones modernas. Esto cuestiona narrativas simplistas y abre puertas a cómo el cerebro y la cultura interactúan (influencia de neurociencia crítica).
Personalmente me tomo estas ideas con una gran dosis de escepticismo.
En 1997, Robe Iniesta titulaba su disco «Iros todos a tomar por culo». El término «iros», como imperativo del verbo «irse», fue aceptado por la RAE en julio del año 2017.