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37 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 31 January 2013 10:16AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 31 January 2013 11:08:08PM 9 points [-]

So, I wouldn't call this a solution to the sleep problem. The sleep problem as I conceive it is the following: staying up during a CFAR workshop has unusually high value because of the people you can talk to, but on the other hand sleep is important for learning things. It's not obvious to me how to optimally handle this tradeoff and I'd like a way of handling it that involves decreasing the need for sleep rather than increasing the quantity of sleep if this is feasible.

Comment author: palladias 01 February 2013 07:21:24AM 5 points [-]

My solution was running on adrenaline at the workshop (bed at 2-3am, up at 7:15) and then getting sick when I got home. Same way I did hell week for every piece of theatre I was in.

So, uh, better suggestions welcome.

Comment author: [deleted] 03 February 2013 01:10:50PM 0 points [-]

I do pretty much that every single week.