Warm_Ice_Cream
Warm_Ice_Cream t1_j87erqg wrote
Reply to My therapist told me I’m ready now to practice socializing casually with strangers, suggested I find a friendly local bar and try there by DanteDakota
People describe me as one the the most extroverted people they know and I find a bar a bit intimidating mostly due to lack of structure.
Have you considered something more structured - like going to Havana Club near central for bachata / salsa lessons followed by a dance social?
Super beginner friendly, you rotate people in lessons so you can socialize with a dance partner and then rotate afterwards. Great to meet people, but also great that after each song / rotation you can gracefully exit.
I found a wonderful community with the social dance scene - after a while you’ll see some familiar faces.
As for socializing with strangers with while having anxiety - I recommend almost having some “questions” in your back pocket that you can ask them to break the ice.
Warm_Ice_Cream t1_ixi643d wrote
You may consider using Composer by MosaicML.
It has features like automatically calculating batch size to prevent CUDA out of memory errors and early stopping.
The library uses a simple Trainer with customizable callbacks to modify any part of the training loop.
Warm_Ice_Cream t1_j88niz1 wrote
Reply to comment by chocolatechipcookie in My therapist told me I’m ready now to practice socializing casually with strangers, suggested I find a friendly local bar and try there by DanteDakota
also second the Burren!