- A user seeking non-prescription ways to manage ADHD-like symptoms received suggestions including modafinil (noted as “classified differently” from typical stimulants), high-dose caffeine, and behavioral hacks such as pair programming and timer-based task segmentation.  
- The same user described their thesis topic: computational modeling of astrocytes (a type of glial cell) in neural networks, highlighting that astrocytes can modulate Hebbian learning, improve energy efficiency, and synchronize large-scale neural activity.  
- It was proposed that astrocytes may hold the key to discovering the true learning rules used by biological neural networks, though this remains outside the immediate scope of the thesis.  
- A future experiment was outlined: once compute becomes cheaper, running an evolutionary search over spiking-network learning rules to test astrocyte-inspired mechanisms.  
- Brief anecdotes were shared about ineffective self-experiments with coca, cannabis, alcohol, and clonazepam for focus, underscoring the community’s willingness to discuss personal pharmacological trials.