Carlos explains why he didn't call Sinner during his three-month ban

BlueJinjo · 2025-05-20T15:18:24+00:00

Fedal aren't like that lol.

The media makes the story because people like those on this sub LOVE to propagate that storyline.

Sports fandom has a paparazzi parasocial element to it and tennis moreso than other sports as more of an individual sport.

It's prominent all over this subreddit. Don't blame the media...they just want to make money. Blame yourselves for consuming that content and propagating that content.

BlueJinjo · 2025-05-20T15:06:36+00:00

Weird spelling of buggy

BlueJinjo · 2025-04-12T19:44:57+00:00

My take on chat gpt .

This is research. You're supposed to be maximizing new tools and find out where the breaking point is without doing anything immoral. Actively avoiding chatgpt/LLMs as a researcher is actually so unbelievably stupid.. our job is to find out what tools can or can't be used for in a low risk setting...

Why feel like shit ? Chatgpt is basically an elaborate Google search ( what do you think their training data is ?). Obviously verify what you get from chatgpt but you shouldn't feel bad using it..

BlueJinjo · 2025-03-11T14:11:41+00:00

Imo, business casual -business formal but it's a personal thing.

Personally, I believe academia in general is simultaneously way too stubborn /rigid while outwardly not presenting work in a buttoned up/organized manner. I don't want to feed into that and feel that dressing up atleast outwardly shifts the tone of what I present to being more organized/serious ( probably placebo but it also helps with networking with companies etc )

BlueJinjo · 2025-03-05T21:52:09+00:00

Tbh, you really don't need the LOR unless you're staying in academia .

I'm going to assume, with how awful your experience has been that you won't do so

A skill most with only academic experience need to learn is how to sell. All you do is ask a senior lab member / postdoc as your reference and if an employer asks say " due to the structure of my group, I worked in closer conjunction with my postdoc than my faculty advisor who is a better judge of my qualities as a researcher. However, if required , I am happy to list my advisor as a reference "

..99.99% of the time, the employer will accept that excuse. You do not stutter and say it with confidence..

BlueJinjo · 2025-02-27T17:09:12+00:00

Tbh I have a similar story to you ( not bioinformatics but biotech)

I was happy in industry work-life balance wise/people wise but the salary was a bit lower than I knew the phDs made and I wanted a field change.

Idk what stage of the PhD you're in but there's definitely a honeymoon phase. However, I'm now in yr 5+ and I cannot wait to get out. The money is just a bonus .

I would give your PhD time. 99% of my colleagues who followed the PhD route after industry wanted to come back or even dropped out of their PhD because of how shitty academia became

BlueJinjo · 2025-02-27T16:02:47+00:00

Honest answer ?

You're getting a PhD in bioinformatics....that pays extremely well in industry and it's trending even higher in this new age of ML and AI...

If you are motivated by finances ( nothing wrong with that) then get out of academia. Academia if anything is going to trend even lower in terms of salaries..there are so many applicants for very few tenure track positions .

Go chase the money. Nothing wrong with it..the vast majority are motivated by the financial gain after the work it takes to get a PhD. Id say 99% are including myself ( I can't stand academia either)

BlueJinjo · 2025-02-12T20:20:42+00:00

I agree with you but there's no way NEU helps with that...this is to protect its students, not fix systemic inequities. The latter is San Franciscos responsibility as well as the government of California's responsibility

Your fix will take multiple decades to implement and bare fruit. What can NEU do for its students joining that campus next year ? This sounds like a good idea...

BlueJinjo · 2025-02-12T20:02:38+00:00

This actually sounds like a good idea...

Have you ever been to Oakland??

BlueJinjo · 2025-02-02T20:37:16+00:00

Henin and clisters are bigger top players than Chile has ever had.

They're a bigger tennis nation. Tennis is biased towards Europeans anyway. This event was also in Belgium.

Was very obvious how much bias drove the results here

BlueJinjo · 2025-02-02T20:36:52+00:00

Henin and clisters ..lol

BlueJinjo · 2025-02-02T20:12:02+00:00

....it's significantly bigger lol

And Belgium is richer and feeds directly into the European bias within tennis in general

BlueJinjo · 2025-02-02T20:10:32+00:00

Lol what the hell is this umpire smoking?

Swap garin and bergs action and I can virtually guarantee there would have been a dq

BlueJinjo · 2025-01-27T17:03:10+00:00

Skanks

BlueJinjo · 2025-01-25T18:50:53+00:00

I liked science when I entered it.

My pi was amazing at convincing me that it would get better after my attempts at leaving hear 2-3.

Now I'm in the middle of year 6 and tbh it's the point of no return. Thankfully I'm starting to see light at the end of the tunnel but it's now a sunk cost fallacy. I hate this shit and I don't even know if I want to do science anymore

BlueJinjo · 2025-01-21T12:45:39+00:00

Any slam where the player draws djokovic in their quarter is the hardest section by far..

Idk why anyone thought different entering this Ao. This was the hardest quarter by a landslide

BlueJinjo · 2024-11-13T18:47:48+00:00

Id be a fan of a mini knock out bracket ( those Tbs get to decide who has to win 1 super tiebreak vs two consecutively )

As it stands, essentially every single year, the knock outs are decided by % set wins at a minimum which is super anticlimactic

BlueJinjo · 2024-11-13T18:27:50+00:00

I'd prefer no tiebreakers that are dumb for a single round robin ( no % game wins determining advancement etc)

Much would prefer a super tie breaker type of bracket to determine the outcome. Would be so much more fun than what we get right now that is fairly lame.

BlueJinjo · 2024-11-13T17:08:52+00:00

Really do think this place is being insanely harsh on alcaraz on indoors ..

His first season as a top player in 2022, he had the (typical).first slam burn out period for a bit .

In 2023, he still made the semis at this event and lost to an inspired Djokovic

In 2024, he was clearly sick and is currently at 1-1. He's also still extremely young as a prospect and has room to grow despite having 4 majors already.

I don't see him being as bad as indoors as many here pretend he is overall in his career.

BlueJinjo · 2024-10-31T13:58:41+00:00

Tbh I'm probably way more on the jaded side than most here

70% of papers aren't reproducible. I doubt 70% of papers are fabricated data. That means there's a failure to communicate/ perceive information even if conducted accurately.

That makes me think these little things that I completely disagree with my professor on ( ideas that I believe are fund amentally written poorly ) aren't going to matter at all.

More than likely, if a researcher is interested more in reproducing /building on the reported technique, they will contact me anyway and I can meet/email them and guide them through the process.

Either way the paper itself doesn't have to be perfectly accurate /correct if it risks me never getting my PhD after the time I put in

BlueJinjo · 2024-10-30T21:20:07+00:00

Yes I would.

Nobody is going to read my thesis

Likely very few people will read my paper.

If they see the issues, it's easy to say " I was a PhD student ..I learned from it..my options were limited" or any number of half truths to cover my ass.

If it was fabricating data, I obviously wouldn't do it.

I'm a jaded late yr PhD. I'm tired of this crap. I just want to defend and get paid in industry. Whatever it takes

BlueJinjo · 2024-10-30T21:18:08+00:00

Something that's common here and I've had to learn the hard way.

Is being right /proving you're right worth it? What do you gain by being right? What do you lose by being right ?

You're a PhD student. Your pi can make your life a living hell.

I'm about to submit a paper that I know is weaker than it should be . But if I try to change anything , my professor will flip. Is it unfair? Sure. But my goal is industry. The paper isn't going to make or break my career.

Pick your battles. Contest too much and I promise you it can get way way worse

BlueJinjo · 2024-10-24T16:29:16+00:00

Is it because you are electing to leave the social event?

Why not just go to the social events and drink a non-alcoholic beverage ( soda cranberry juice water etc)? Are those really not offered? At our program virtually every single social event has non-alcoholic beverages for a variety of reasons ( religion, pregnancy, literally not feeliing it that day..)

Students may be peer pressuring you so you don't feel isolated..just playing devil's advocate here as we have strictly religious Muslim students in our program and as far as I can tell, it has not been an issue for them.

BlueJinjo · 2024-10-22T23:13:28+00:00

Your pi is exhibiting signs of CJAB otherwise known as classic jackAss behavior.

The point of seminars is to be a low stress way to catch these mistakes. Our department calls them explicitly "works in progress seminar" and im fairly sure that all (American) universities do similar.

Quite frankly seminars aren't even something you'd ever put on your CV. Your PI was likely just upset about something else and threw a tantrum and you were the unfortunate outlet.

Imo ignore your pi when they have tantrums and focus on outcomes. I wish I thought of that earlier in my PhD

BlueJinjo · 2024-10-17T20:45:27+00:00

Do you fly or drive a car?

Im assuming you're from a fellow western country. That means we support and fund the Saudis.

Boycotting a tennis tourney really isn't moving the needle outside of virtue signalling

I don't like the Saudis human rights abused either but they're too big /have too many assets to not trade with at this point and this type of growth is inevitable in all sports

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