I’m really getting fond of log-odds. Why the fuck was I ever taught to use probabilities? Probabilities are horrid! No one should ever use them for anything¹! Use likelihoods and log-odds (preferably in decibels). Seriously.

Then read more about Bayesian data analysis, and all of this is making so much sense, and I love seeing the posterior move around as it updates on new evidence, and I’m super excited because I’m seriously sleep-deprived and just finished my Desperate Housewives marathon and I want a pretty baby² and a white picket fence and somebody shoot me please my head doesn’t stop.

But seriously, got a good idea how to figure out parameters (and have the tools for that), but I’m still not quite sure how to run blinded experiments (i.e. probability functions that have state / are conditional), but I should have a solution soon.

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Gah, hair seriously stressing me out. I still have a “don’t touch or change anything” policy for the next two weeks, but I have no idea what to do after that. I justify this with paleo motivated curiosity³, just to see what happens without shampoo and at a “natural” (uncut) length. What I would’ve looked like as a hunter-gatherer, essentially.

First 2 weeks: it’s awful. Like, my skin is already pretty messed up, but “no shampoo” made the itching worse. I’m now using vinegar + baking soda to get it reasonably un-itchy. It’s seems to slowly recover, and if I gave up caffeine, it might actually stop itching, but I’d rather bleed than go sober. (Also, sunlight would help the skin, but you know how it is.)

The hair is becoming asymmetrical, and the lengths are all off, and I have no idea what style to go for, or how to maintain it, or even what is and isn’t broken, as I’ve never had to deal with >4cm hair at all, and gah.

Of course, a sane person would just google the best hair stylist in the nearby town and pay them to figure out how to deal with this mess. But this insane blogger can’t do that because he has an “interact with new people” budget of about 1 per month, and he’s still avoiding his advisor.

Previous hundred lives, I always was a monk with a shaved head; can’t explain it otherwise. (However, it does make corpse meditation incredibly easy. Everything is decaying filth already. I would never leave the bathtub if I could. I hate everything about bodies.)

So in preparation of some fixes, I watched a whole bunch of Youtube videos (read r/malehairadvice etc.) about how to cut your hair, do various styles and so on. In two weeks, I’ll just try my best. (I might actually get over enough of my neurosis to do photos then. I almost wanna post them to various sites / reddit to get options and ratings, and do it more scientifically, but I don’t know if I can convince myself of that.)

Even ordered some products to experiment with, bought some shorts for the summer and now I seriously feel like buying pretty shoes. omg I’m leveling up in gay clichés~~~

If all else fails, I’ll go back to a buzz cut; that’s my “still not happy in July or fucked up” fallback. Or, I could just become a dirty hippie weird person again and dye my hair crazy colors and so on, like I did in high school, that always got me into the right crowds⁴. But I’m not sure I can still pull that off these days. (Might still try, though.)