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1:36 pm
May 23, 2016
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What’s up guys. I have a problem and want to see if anyone else has a similar issue.
My problem is staying on track. I jump from idea to idea without ever finishing anything. From an album, to a half finished board game, to a novel about the comedic side of heaven. All show promise, all have been abandoned. These are just three of a very long list. I do better when I have someone to work with. But if it’s just me I lose interest after two or three weeks.
Anybody else deal with this?
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2:21 pm
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February 15, 2014
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Maybe put down the joint!
But all kidding aside, set aside time (even if it is just an hour a day or week) to work on one of those uncompleted projects. Make it like a job – except you are technically the boss. Go to work on time at the specified time you have set and don’t stop working till you have hit the time for you have specified to be done for the day. Just a suggestion.
Hopefully others will chime in since I am sure the musicians on here have had similar experiences as you. They are certain to have some insight or ideas to help break out of the back-burner syndrome that your projects have ended up in.
2:31 pm
September 18, 2012
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Psyral Infection said
Maybe put down the joint!But all kidding aside, set aside time (even if it is just an hour a day or week) to work on one of those uncompleted projects. Make it like a job – except you are technically the boss. Go to work on time at the specified time you have set and don’t stop working till you have hit the time for you have specified to be done for the day. Just a suggestion.
Hopefully others will chime in since I am sure the musicians on here have had similar experiences as you. They are certain to have some insight or ideas to help break out of the back-burner syndrome that your projects have ended up in.
Nope, that’s basically it. You have to just do it.
2:38 pm
May 23, 2016
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I wil;l have to try harder at that. I get fully immersed in a project for a little bit then once I stop getting back to it seems hopeless. But I guess if I keep at it on a regular schedule for long enough it has to get done sooner or later.
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January 19, 2013
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TurnaFraze said
I wil;l have to try harder at that.
Do or do not,there is no try.
Also , careful taking motivational advice from Lucem.
Dude told the forum he was going to focus all his energy on rapping for a living.
That was last year.
Maybe he’s rockin shows in small town Utah,
I doubt it though-he has yet to upload one legit good song to the forum since that bold statement…..
4:00 pm
December 3, 2012
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Dude I know how you feel. I have a half finished post apocalyptic novel that I started in 2011. It’s so awful. It will never get finished even though I wanted to do it in the first place just to say I wrote one. I was too embarrassed to show it to anyone.
That and my failed ambitions of being a programmer. I make excuses about working full time. So here I am stuck in a dead end job. I’m not even thirty and my back is tore up from manual labor.
Procrastination is a mother fucker.
There's a gateway in our minds
That leads somewhere out there, far beyond this plane
Where reptile aliens made of light
Cut you open and pull out all your pain
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4:06 pm
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May 22, 2012
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Slumerican502 said
… I’m not even thirty …
your silver lining.
lotsa time.
awfully paranoid, arent you?
4:10 pm
May 23, 2016
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Slumerican502 said
Dude I know how you feel. I have a half finished post apocalyptic novel that I started in 2011. It’s so awful. It will never get finished even though I wanted to do it in the first place just to say I wrote one. I was too embarrassed to show it to anyone.
That and my failed ambitions of being a programmer. I make excuses about working full time. So here I am stuck in a dead end job. I’m not even thirty and my back is tore up from manual labor.
Procrastination is a mother fucker.
EXACTLY! I wanted to be a programmer as well. Got enrolled in college to become a game art designer, I have wrote plans for an app, I have an idea for renewable energy even. Mine isn’t even procrastination or work. I just lose steam. I am still pumped about all of my ideas and projects, just no drive to work on them because nothing pans out… but nothing pans out because I always quit…
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6:50 pm
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February 15, 2014
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Slumerican502 said
… That and my failed ambitions of being a programmer. …
TurnaFraze said
… I wanted to be a programmer as well. …
Well, @slumerican502 , @turnafraze , and all you programmers or want-to-be programmers out there, there is a new codingames contest starting up in about a day. They do the big contests every 3 months or so. Tons of fun. You compete against programmers from all over the world. The last contest I made it into the top 10 of the Gold League. There is more than just the big contests (And if you are interested in jobs as a programmer, some of the sponsored contests are by many software companies that hire the winners of the contests). There are little 5 minute and 10 minute coding contests all day whenever you want that you can compete in. Plus tons of other programming activities from programming bots to optimization algorithms to reverse engineering to single and multiplayer “games”. You can program in tons of languages from PHP, C#, C++, Java, Javascript, OCaml, Perl, Dart, Scala, VB.NET, F#, Ruby, Lua, C, Objective-C, Clojure, Groovy, Haskell, Python, Bash, Go, Pascal, etc. You choose the language you wish to use.
For the new contest coming up in less than 2 days (which I won’t be able to compete in this time since I will be teaching programming classes out of state right after the contests starts) go here -> https://www.codingame.com/contests/hypersonic
They are tons of fun! My last contest I utilized genetic algorithms to “evolve” my program. For those not familiar with genetic or evolutionary algorithms, it is a programming method that mimics genetic evolution. You don’t directly program your solution, you let the solution evolve over 1000’s of generations. The idea is that you would start with a large initial population of random instructions usually encoded into a bit stream. Think of the bits like the DNA within a chromosome. Each entity within the pool is tested against a fitness function and the resulting fitness determines the probability of that entity mating with another. The mating results in something analogous to recombinant chromosomes. Part of each parent’s code is used in creating the offspring with a small chance of random mutation. The resulting offspring is added to the genetic pool. This process repeats itself over 1000’s or even 10’s of 1000’s of generations until a solution that is robust enough finally evolves out of the original random code. You aren’t programming it. You are letting a program genetically evolve from a random genetic soup of code.
I want to try my hand at an evolutionary neural net for the next time I enter a contest. The same idea of the genetic or evolutionary algorithm is applied to a neural net. Neural nets mimic the structure of the brain in that each “neuron” has synaptic inputs and threshold limits to determine whether the neuron fires or not. The neurons are all interconnected with various synaptic weights applied to each neural connection. It is those weights and threshold values that will be genetically evolved. I think it will be fun to do that. Again, it’s unfortunate that I won’t be entering the next contest due to the programming conference I am teaching at. Oh well. Next time!
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May 22, 2012
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i wanna use that as a development tool for video game ai.
actually, i wanna use you, psyral, as a development tool for video game ai. but whatever.
awfully paranoid, arent you?
11:24 pm
May 23, 2016
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If you wind up needing art let me know. I have everything from Photoshop to a 3d modeling and game engine
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TurnaFraze said
I wil;l have to try harder at that. I get fully immersed in a project for a little bit then once I stop getting back to it seems hopeless. But I guess if I keep at it on a regular schedule for long enough it has to get done sooner or later.
It’s a problem for creative people because we like that new new. Try working on smaller stuff. Instead of a novel, do a short story. Instead of an lp, do an ep.
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3:48 pm
May 23, 2016
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That’s probably some very reasonable advice
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September 18, 2012
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Also, think of what inspired you to take on the project and try to capture that feeling again. I find that doing redundant things or just walking some where gets the brain flowing it brings up inspiration and ideas that were once laying dormant.
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5:16 pm
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Slumerican502 said
Procrastination is a mother fucker.
Pretty much this but I have problems focusing/being in tune and staying on track. Its hard to hold conversations with people cause 95% of the time I get distracted about something and forget where the conversation drifted off to. I’ve been called an asshole for interrupting and/or forgetting the main point of the story. Must be the drugs. Must be psychological. Cause and effect. My brains wired off some shit.
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April 4, 2012
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GanjaGoblin said
Slumerican502 said
Procrastination is a mother fucker.
Pretty much this but I have problems focusing/being in tune and staying on track. Its hard to hold conversations with people cause 95% of the time I get distracted about something and forget where the conversation drifted off to. I’ve been called an asshole for interrupting and/or forgetting the main point of the story. Must be the drugs. Must be psychological. Cause and effect. My brains wired off some shit.
That’s why you be thieving people’s spicy chicken sandwiches lol
10:44 am
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February 15, 2014
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New contest for you programmers: The Accountant Hackathon at https://www.codingame.com/hackathon/the-accountant
Win awesome prizes: 1st Place – $10,000, 2nd Place – $5,000, 3rd Place – $2,000
The Accountant Hackathon is a programming competition for which you will have 15 days to imagine the best solution. There are 25+ programming languages to choose from to participate. It doesn’t take more than a few minutes to come up with a basic solution, but to get the highest possible score, you will have to optimize your code the smart way. Within the 15 days of the competition, you will be able to fine tune your program whenever you like, as much as you like, to climb in the rankings.
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February 13, 2015
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Discipline is hard man…
I got a dose of it when i ran an over night crew.
Insane amout of physical and mental labour with a strict schedule and asshole navey coke snorting laterally impotent boss.
Im not saying the half of it….
But im glad i basically signed up to be forced to do something really hard.
Now its something i can tap into when ever i truly give a fuck about something. Like i really do believe i can do almost anything i want.
Not sure if what i said helps or applies.
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11:30 pm
May 23, 2016
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I’ve had that before. Not so much physical labor but I had a point in time where it was walk 7 miles to work or lose my job. It wasn’t even a good job, but I refused to give up. But that had regular paychecks… Unlike my hobbies
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TurnaFraze said
I’ve had that before. Not so much physical labor but I had a point in time where it was walk 7 miles to work or lose my job. It wasn’t even a good job, but I refused to give up. But that had regular paychecks… Unlike my hobbies
Been in a situation like that. I worked harder than everybody else (closing while two of the day people didn’t do shit and left me with their mess) and getting paid less than everybody else just to walk 3-4 miles home at the end of the day at midnight through down town Salt Lake. I quickly became the favorite after that bitch boss got fired, but in the end I never got what I gave and that’s when I learned to never EVER bend over backwards for any job like that. In the end I never became the favorite because of how hard I worked, I became the favorite because they liked me.
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