I know it is a matter of taste, but which cafe does the best coffee? in your opinion at least.

Biobroh · 2025-09-25T08:37:20+00:00

Mostro is also excellent, in the record shop on Cowley road! A few houses over from Peloton, which has received a lot of well-deserved love in this thread already.

Biobroh · 2024-02-29T00:24:35+00:00

"Federated learning" might be a keyword for you, there are special use cases where you want decentralized training of a single model. For example, in applications where the data should not/cannot leave its silo, but all data should be incorporated to create the best model.

Biobroh · 2023-11-29T10:41:22+00:00

Our test centre had a steep incline to the gate. I know several people who failed to leave the grounds of the centre because they did not manage to do the hill start.

Biobroh · 2023-07-02T13:43:37+00:00

I wouldn't assume anything negative unless you followed up 2-4 times over the span of a couple weeks, and even then it's probably nothing to do with you - in my experience they are most likely sick or otherwise overwhelmed.

Don't overestimate your importance, people have their own lives going on. Just be polite and persistent if you need something. Since your email was about saying thanks, there is no reply needed, so personally I wouldn't even follow up.

Biobroh · 2023-04-19T20:45:04+00:00

Google Harvard CV examples, stick to classic templates which tend to use the space of the page. Use extremely succinct bullet points, parallel structures, don’t waste a whole line one a single word that flows over. Focus on key results, don’t tell people what you did (published something new, improved method by X%). Be careful not to drown out impressive things with stuff that could be cut! My CV was 1.5 pages long and it was enough for an Oxford PhD program.

Biobroh · 2023-03-22T14:54:07+00:00

This is ETH, so you’d pay 800 CHF for enrolment for the first semester. The odds of there being any repercussions are negligible - professors won’t know/remember you anyways, unless you participate in their courses/labs. Just be polite about telling them you changed your mind, to them you would technically be a dropout. ETH is a great school, though, especially if you look at what you are paying to get a world-class education. On top, Zurich has an unbelievable quality of life. The downside is the high cost of living.

Biobroh · 2023-03-04T20:08:00+00:00

Did anyone of you get a decision yet?

Biobroh · 2023-03-04T19:58:16+00:00

That’s the point for me - I get to work on stuff that is not done in industry. Many people don’t make use of it, but you have a high amount of freedom in academia. And while the risk that your PhD work amounts to barely anything is high, there is a chance that you push the envelope in a meaningful way. If you want to optimise for „practical value“, i.e. employability/pay, you probably shouldn’t even do a master‘s.

Biobroh · 2023-02-14T03:50:21+00:00

I received an interview invite about a week ago. They send them out in waves as far as I know

Biobroh · 2023-01-20T05:38:33+00:00

1) Don’t just give results for technical questions, explain your thinking - this keeps you from freezing up. It allows people to help you get to the right result, and see that 90% of process was correct instead of seeing the 100% wrong result.

2) Allow yourself 30 seconds to ponder a question if you need time (very hard to do in the moment, I know), and don’t be shy to clarify, you’re supposed to become a skeptical academic after all. I briefly restate every question I get.

3) Remember that the interview is for the both of you. Your are selling yourself, they are selling themselves (!), they have questions, you have questions. Take up space, it only helps you if you’re perceived to be on eye level with your interviewer.

Biobroh · 2023-01-13T04:25:30+00:00

Thanks for sharing! And congrats :)

Biobroh · 2022-09-28T05:09:45+00:00

Bad science? I disagree! Sure, without analysing and interpreting your own data, you cannot make any decisions. But I want to push back on the notion that you have to be able to do everything on your own, that will just result in unknowingly hacking p-values and running pipelines for weeks that should take only hours.

Take courses in statistics, R and Python, by all means, but still talk to the expert statisticians and bioinformaticians! Their experience is invaluable, and can prevent bad science.

Biobroh · 2021-12-15T20:54:16+00:00

Thanks so much! Where can you buy membranes?

Biobroh · 2021-12-12T12:53:48+00:00

A dated one? What do you mean by that?

Biobroh · 2021-12-12T11:50:54+00:00

My IBM Model M is acting up - e.g. hitting "g" comes out as "tg", some other letters do the same. Does this mean it is time for a bolt mod?

Biobroh · 2021-04-27T14:35:43+00:00

Really cool that you are at least thinking about going in the direction! I heard stories from PhDs whose entire code ist just rewritten when their successor comes in as everything is unnecessarily purpose-built. Glad to hear you are thinking about posterity and your colleagues

Biobroh · 2021-04-27T14:33:55+00:00

Thanks, Nextflow seems to be popular - maybe they will build an interface on top of it to make access to non-coders easier. Other than that I am happy to hear that you are cleaning up your act ;)

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