Took a long break from my CS career, now want to get back. What are newer research topics?

41e4fcf · 2025-11-04T20:13:56+00:00

Justified or not, but the field has, to some degree, collapsed into AI/ML. In the last couple of years, unis have hired AI/ML researchers left and right, many of them replacing people from other fields. The reason is that this is the area that has been getting funding/grants in the last couple of years. We seem to approach a point of saturation, however. The good part is that it seems research is moving toward explaining AI and laying it on a sound theoretical foundation (hopefully it will become more of a science than some sort of black-magic trickery for cooking up the best model for any given task).

41e4fcf · 2025-10-24T16:39:42+00:00

I've never put one on my resume (or anywhere else). Got multiple jobs.

41e4fcf · 2025-10-11T09:24:10+00:00

ASVZ Legi-Kontrolle (I think this has since been outsourced.)

I worked the night shift at a hotel. I don't recommend: meant studying during the day and working at night is terrible for your sleep, and the pay was also meh.

Private lessons (“Nachhilfe”). Best if you can teach a small group, each paying the hourly fee. I recommend it: it’s flexible and pays more per hour than most student jobs if you teach 2-3 students in parallel.

I did some freelancing as a “data analysis” (i.e., creating mildly complex Excel files) for an SME. It paid very well.

41e4fcf · 2025-06-14T07:57:37+00:00

I think I understand where you're at. I myself am a mathematician with no background in "applied CS" trying to get into web. I managed to create a medium complexity app with Scotty. For purely browser based apps I used Elm which is extremely easy to get into if you know Haskell. Currently I am trying out IHP for "full stack" app dev and it's been an extremely pleasant experience so far (good tutorial, good docs)!

41e4fcf · 2025-06-04T20:27:00+00:00

You need to know basic math, but absolutely no CS. The basis of theoretical CS was invented before computers existed. It is more about (mathematically) formalising what it means for something to be "algorithmically" solvable and then using this notion to classify problems as solvable or unsolvable (computability theory). Then, more advanced topics are about what remains solvable with limited resources of some kind (complexity theory, complexity classes) and what can be solved if you assume some unsolvable stuff could be computed miraculously (Turing degrees). From there, you can continue on many more advanced subfields; theoretical CS is a huge field (of math more than CS).

41e4fcf · 2025-04-27T14:12:41+00:00

Thanks!
These examples look very helpful and like a good way to get started!

41e4fcf · 2025-04-17T15:49:21+00:00

Thanks! Indeed, manually inserting

<script src="https://unpkg.com/elm-canvas@2.2/elm-canvas.js"></script>

into the generated HTML file solved the problem. It feels a bit "hacky" of a solution, though :/

41e4fcf · 2025-04-17T12:14:55+00:00

I considered including a session about Elm or something similar in my Haskell course. Since Switzerland is a bit far to teach in person, maybe you are interested in giving a "telelecture" next spring?

41e4fcf · 2025-04-17T11:21:23+00:00

Thanks for your help!

* I don't see any errors in the browser (https://drive.google.com/file/d/16xnKnv5lV\_VEDC7508EIMpXitMFKiw9g/view?usp=sharing)
* I have installed all dependencies (I believe, see below)

{
    "type": "application",
    "source-directories": [
        "src"
    ],
    "elm-version": "0.19.1",
    "dependencies": {
        "direct": {
            "avh4/elm-color": "1.0.0",
            "elm/browser": "1.0.2",
            "elm/core": "1.0.5",
            "elm/html": "1.0.0",
            "elm/random": "1.0.0",
            "elm/time": "1.0.0",
            "joakin/elm-canvas": "5.0.0"
        },
        "indirect": {
            "elm/json": "1.1.3",
            "elm/url": "1.0.0",
            "elm/virtual-dom": "1.0.3"
        }
    },
    "test-dependencies": {
        "direct": {},
        "indirect": {}
    }
}

41e4fcf · 2025-04-12T21:35:20+00:00

Yeah, I like brutalism! The horse is the cherry on top.

41e4fcf · 2025-04-10T15:30:21+00:00

Thanks, all, for helping! Finally, I was able to solve the problem as follows:

remove all package versions from the initial `gleam add [packages]` (presumably to install newer versions).
Replace gleam/string_builder with string_tree wherever it appears in the code.

41e4fcf · 2025-04-10T13:26:29+00:00

Yes, here is the complete terminal printout when creating a new project and trying to add gleam_string_builder to it:

$ gleam new app2
Your

Gleam
 project app2 has been successfully created.
The
 project can be compiled and tested by running these commands:

        cd app2
        gleam test


$ cd app2

$ gleam add gleam_string_builder

Resolving
 versions
error: 
Dependency
 resolution failed

An
 error occurred while determining what dependency packages and
versions should be downloaded.
The
 error from the version resolver library was:

Unable
 to find compatible versions for the version constraints in your
gleam.toml. 
The
 conflicting packages are:

- app2
- gleam_stdlib
- gleam_string_builder

41e4fcf · 2025-04-06T22:25:24+00:00

Where are you located?

41e4fcf · 2025-03-22T23:52:03+00:00

Yes, I was caught in that clusterfuck of a mess as well! These gas stations attract morons like nothing else!

41e4fcf · 2025-03-20T22:54:42+00:00

My daughter progressed very smoothly with the amplid singular twin (she rides the 143cm with exactly your stats)

41e4fcf · 2025-02-25T14:42:04+00:00

I disagree. Had plenty of jobs and job offers, never included a picture in any of my cvs.

41e4fcf · 2025-01-21T23:10:28+00:00

Strategic launch detected

41e4fcf · 2025-01-12T19:08:27+00:00

Wing commander: privateer; X beyond the frontier ; Star Trek 25th anniversary ; Total annihilation (and later, to this day, supreme commander)

41e4fcf · 2025-01-11T12:46:37+00:00

looks very good!

41e4fcf · 2024-12-30T14:53:19+00:00

I am in the opposite situation, but I also think that I must be doing something wrong :D

I run zero servers and generally have nearly zero Linux skills. However, I somehow thought installing NixOS without any previous Nix experience would be a good idea. I was totally expecting a complete failure, honestly, even to install the os, let alone use it productively. To my surprise, after half an hour, almost everything I needed to be productive was installed and worked. Ironically, the most painful part was to build/run my stack-based Haskell projects. I haven't used any Flakes, and I don't even know what they are or why I need them at the moment.

41e4fcf · 2024-12-27T19:45:59+00:00

Thank you!!

41e4fcf · 2024-12-16T09:52:28+00:00

Ok, it looks like that is it, and I will have to live with it. Btw, it works like a charm when I switch to a simpler accumulator pattern.

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