— Incentive Barriers — I’ve been thinking a lot about how environment is directly related to action. I think that we are in less control of our behavior than we think, and that most of our action is us simply responding to our environment.... Read more
Hi, I'm Vanessa, a Principal Computer Scientist.
Building schedulers, containers, and cloudy things, with a love for learning and new experiences. -- about me
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— Mental Disorder: The Mental Booboo Hypothesis — This second semester I took Abnormal Psychology, and spurred my thinking about mental disorder. I would like to propose a new hypothesis for most mental disorder: I think that ALL mental disorder is the result of an inability to adapt... Read more
— Final Tidbit — In honor of my final exam in T-minus 2 hours, I thought that I’d paraphrase something from my textbook. I haven’t opened it in a while, but I wrote this down because it’s the sort of idea I’d latch onto... Read more
— Sharing My Writing Process — OK, so I’m in the process of writing a final paper, and i thought it would be cool to share how I go about that. Why? I’m curious how my process compares to that of others, part of me wants... Read more