One think we can concur is that each and everyone of us has hyperfixations, some have permanent ones, others have cyclic ones but it’s one of the things that makes us who we are and makes as happy.

My hiperfixations tend to be related to media, a tv series, a book series or about medical cases/diseases, etc. My 5 year hyperfixates (for now) on flags, countries, capitals and car brands and brands in general.

I try to stay away from some hyperfixations that cause me too much anxiety like true crime and real disasters (stampedes, wars, earthquakes, etc)

What are yours? And feel free to share some knowledge!

  • Cronch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My special interest is AI Its so exciting seeing so much new stuff come out everyday. I pretty much never run out of stuff to look at with how fast it’s advancing.

    • BOMBS@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That sounds like a great situation to be in. What’s something on the leading edge of AI that most people aren’t aware but would likely find interesting?

      • Cronch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think the open-source Orca ai model created by Microsoft is the biggest thing right now. They trained it by using Chatgpt and Gpt4 to explain complex questions to it. Currently, it outperforms Vicuna-13b which is pretty powerful when it comes to open-source models but more importantly it’s comparable to Chatgpt and even outperforms gpt4 on some tasks. They said that there are still many things they haven’t tried yet which could increase Orca’s performance.

  • Halasham@dormi.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Military and Political history. For the military side especially pre-WWII modern history. On the political side predominantly left-wing but not bounded much by time.

    Sometimes it’s interesting to read about the specifics of behaviors, statements, and actions of some historical figure or another and see the contrast with how they’re remembered or how the current establishment likes to portray them… other times it’s frustrating.

  • Striker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Tbh I get a lot of hyperfixations and they tend to be pretty fleeting as well. For example there was a 6 month period three years ago where I kept trying to learn a new language. Completed a duolingo course on Irish, made some progress on the Greek and German one, and sampled a whole bunch of others as well. Not that I have any proficiency in any of them at all.

    I also have had a few periods where I get obsessed with movies and get really invested in the Oscars. Not to the point where I would throw a hissy fit if the movie I wanted didn’t win but I would get pretty invested.

    I can also get fixated on a certain TV show and try to watch all of it (Breaking Bad, Criminal Minds, Simpsons, The Wire and Sopranos are all shows I’ve had a hyper fixation with at some point)

    I can also get really invested in political developments like elections and protests.

  • Goat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yes! Mine is like “big question” stuff. Philosophy, religion, psychology, etc.

    There’s an inexhaustible amount of ideas to explore, so there is some variability. But as much as I read, I have not read fiction in like 20 years. No other hobbies, etc.

    Luckily I found my way to psychology so I can practice in that area (mainly with struggles I have been through from the inside-out) and even provide “consultation,” i.e. getting paid to have a willingly captive audience listen to me info-dump about my special interest.

    Mu hu ha ha ha.