Alcohol and mathematician (a)
This is a difficult, controversial and painful topic. But I want to try to discuss it. I can’t say something great and sparkling about myself, therefore I will refer to a fairly sincere (amidst a bunch of hypocrisy and moralizing on this issue) presentation by a mathematician, doctor of sciences, Alexei Savvateev. (The video itself is at the end of the post.)
36 years of my life were very closely associated with alcohol. And I dropped out of the game about five minutes before the waterfall. I swam, swam, the river was getting steeper, I was a water tourist, I “shot back”. He shot himself in front of the waterfall, apparently. Four years ago, he started drinking alcohol. I can not say the phrase: "And I advise you the same." Because I saw people who drink quite normal. But this is not my case.
I can give advice, like an old alcoholic with great experience. If you, even in 10% of cases (not in 100%, and not even in 70%), you stop and drink before falling under the table, then you need to tie.
For many years I amused myself that I can completely control myself, just sometimes I somehow do not control myself, but this is rare, right? Usually I sit down at the table, drink a glass or two, fifth, seventh ... well, I got drunk, I swear on the whole Ivanovskaya ... All the passions after alcohol go. Alcohol, like a locomotive drags wagons: prodigal thoughts, obscenities and everything else. Nevertheless, quite often I stopped, got up, said: "Well, that's it, I went." Walked home, slept. The next morning he said to himself: "You see, you are not an alcoholic!" Often I could stop, but not always. Once every two or three months, there was some kind of super catastrophe. I did what is completely unacceptable, I will not even list. In old age I’ll write a thriller book “The Practice of Free Travel” (my answer is Anton Krotov ).
I dropped out of the game and for four years I have not even been drinking champagne. I have three surrogates. Instead of beer, I drink non-alcoholic beer , this is disgusting, yes. But it reminds of some sensations of the holiday, adjusts to what you can celebrate with those around you drinking. Ginger instead of vodka. If you mix ginger with lemon very hard, 10 times stronger than usual ...
Bah! and you right aaaAAA !!! .. oh ... And you just feel as if you drank vodka. What you need.
And in third place - pomegranate juice instead of wine. Good real pomegranate juice, Crimean or Azerbaijani. Juice is quite expensive, but alcohol is more expensive.
Three pages in the book where I was a co-author, Combinatorics , on how many ways you can get to vomit by intermittent drinks. Here you need to take 500 grams of vodka equivalent. You have several drinks of different strengths in different volumes. How many ways to do this, given that order is important . Beer for vodka or vodka for beer is very important. All alcoholics understand me perfectly.
In the class of combinatorial problems, order is important. For a very long time I could not come up with an interpretation of why order is important in mathematics, and I came up with it, this alcoholic interpretation. And so Andrei Mikhailovich Raigorodsky, the main author of the book (along with Shkredov), included me as the third author for this interpretation.
But in general, alcohol, goodbye, friend, goodbye.
36 years of my life were very closely associated with alcohol. And I dropped out of the game about five minutes before the waterfall. I swam, swam, the river was getting steeper, I was a water tourist, I “shot back”. He shot himself in front of the waterfall, apparently. Four years ago, he started drinking alcohol. I can not say the phrase: "And I advise you the same." Because I saw people who drink quite normal. But this is not my case.
I can give advice, like an old alcoholic with great experience. If you, even in 10% of cases (not in 100%, and not even in 70%), you stop and drink before falling under the table, then you need to tie.
For many years I amused myself that I can completely control myself, just sometimes I somehow do not control myself, but this is rare, right? Usually I sit down at the table, drink a glass or two, fifth, seventh ... well, I got drunk, I swear on the whole Ivanovskaya ... All the passions after alcohol go. Alcohol, like a locomotive drags wagons: prodigal thoughts, obscenities and everything else. Nevertheless, quite often I stopped, got up, said: "Well, that's it, I went." Walked home, slept. The next morning he said to himself: "You see, you are not an alcoholic!" Often I could stop, but not always. Once every two or three months, there was some kind of super catastrophe. I did what is completely unacceptable, I will not even list. In old age I’ll write a thriller book “The Practice of Free Travel” (my answer is Anton Krotov ).
I dropped out of the game and for four years I have not even been drinking champagne. I have three surrogates. Instead of beer, I drink non-alcoholic beer , this is disgusting, yes. But it reminds of some sensations of the holiday, adjusts to what you can celebrate with those around you drinking. Ginger instead of vodka. If you mix ginger with lemon very hard, 10 times stronger than usual ...
Bah! and you right aaaAAA !!! .. oh ... And you just feel as if you drank vodka. What you need.
And in third place - pomegranate juice instead of wine. Good real pomegranate juice, Crimean or Azerbaijani. Juice is quite expensive, but alcohol is more expensive.
Three pages in the book where I was a co-author, Combinatorics , on how many ways you can get to vomit by intermittent drinks. Here you need to take 500 grams of vodka equivalent. You have several drinks of different strengths in different volumes. How many ways to do this, given that order is important . Beer for vodka or vodka for beer is very important. All alcoholics understand me perfectly.
In the class of combinatorial problems, order is important. For a very long time I could not come up with an interpretation of why order is important in mathematics, and I came up with it, this alcoholic interpretation. And so Andrei Mikhailovich Raigorodsky, the main author of the book (along with Shkredov), included me as the third author for this interpretation.
But in general, alcohol, goodbye, friend, goodbye.
Questions to the habrasociety
- How are you doing with alcohol?
- How are alcohol and productivity related to you?
- If thrown, then how?
- What are the live hacks for replacing “holiday sensations” and socializing aspects?
- What useful articles, videos have you seen on this topic?
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