Most of them. I’ve realized that I give up my hobbies after a while because what I want is to learn the topic, not do the thing. And once something has become second nature I’m no longer driven to pursue it. BUT I also have to have a goal/project for that new knowledge or I won’t be motivated to learn… because video games are fun and the internet is distracting.
Electrical engineering. I feel like I have a nack for it but I went and became a biologist
Study electric fish and eels. Problem solved!
Physics. Got put in a Physics class in HS after getting kicked out of public schools and had to transfer to a catholic school with advanced curriculum. Fuck everything was so interesting to me. WHAT THE FUCK IS IN THE SPACE THAT MUST EXIST BETWEEN ATOMS?! WHAT?! You can never measure the exact location of an object?!?! WHAT WHAT?!? Even if you could if you’re observing it passively, it alters the results?!?! WHATWHATWHAT?!? No matter how random an occurancw may seem it can still be a patterned algorithm?!? Fuck me they couldn’t teach their way out of a sex Ed paper bag but they sure as shit taught the fuck out of Physics
Quantum physics. But I’m at a stage where I actually would have to really start learning. YouTube videos don’t cut it anymore. I would have to actually understand the maths and my brain can’t handle that at the moment.
Same for me
Use IBM’s cloud quantum computers to learn a bit, you can indeed find YouTube videos that explain to you how to do the calculations and then you can just play around making algorithms on their systems and verifying that you can do the calculations correctly. With that knowledge alone you can then begin to learn how to step through a lot of the famous experiments that all purport to show the strangeness of quantum mechanics, like Bell’s theorem, the “bomb tester” thought experiment, GHZ experiment, quantum teleportation, etc, as most of the famous ones can be implemented on a quantum computer and you can get an understanding of why they are interesting.
You’d have to start with linear algebra and differential equations if you want to grasp it.
Geologic time.
Same. There is so much I see online and IRL that I don’t understand. For that matter, I’d like to understand geology on a decade or century level.
For example; I have 2.5 acres of swamp. Talking to a guy who was a kid there 30-years ago, it seems mostly unchanged. How not?! I would think it would fill up, shift course, something in 3 decades.
Was it different 300 years ago? Maybe not. 3 Million years. Should be different? Right?
I’d like to learn Spanish. My wife giggles uncontrollably at my Tagalog accent, so I kinda gave up on that one.
cognition, learning and bias.
anything related to the saying “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”
also retention on how well you keep what you learned.
TIME :deeper meaning of it. it’s the concept even cracked a bit more could lead to multiple advances , it’s fantastic dimension but unfortunately we are almost at limit it seems in terms of research.
This whole experiment was wild! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o23O7_0QChY The dolphin ended up demanding sexual gratification too if you really want to get into that experiment.
Sex. Yeah i know it sounds shallow. But for some people is not a possibility to experience it.
Nothing really. I’ve had too much education. I’m ready to step away from it and just live.
