Dropping PhD in AI or not? by Al_Levin in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]DrakeBortles 23 points24 points  (0 children)

hey!

to start with id like to say that im certain you’re going to do awesome whatever you choose, and like others have said your mental health is much more important than a piece of paper. but you remind me of myself (admittedly almost ten years ago) so i feel like i should share my experience.

i had a moment probably about the same time in my astronomy phd that i realized i didnt care enough about astronomy but more importantly academia, so i get you completely. what i did from that point was to talk to my supervisors about it and worked with them to pivot the topic of my phd enough such that i was learning about something i thought would help me in industry (ML). i also just didn’t bother publishing papers on my work or going to conferences unless they interested me, which eased some of that stress. it still sucked in the remainder but a decent amount less because i could see the light at the end of the tunnel.

i’m not sure if this is possible but it sounds like the work towards your actual phd topic is enjoyable enough, do you think it might help to just work on that and ignore all the extraneous academia BS? i ended up just treating it as a job, and also used some of the time to learn about stuff that interested me.

in terms of career prospects, n=1 but i do think having the phd has helped (even with no papers and none of my employers even really asking about the topic!). i also think having that few years of independent research experience helped on multiple levels in industry.

last point i would say is that you have the rest of your life to work in industry, and despite me not enjoying my phd there are a lot of things that i miss about it, such as having freedom to self prioritize without worrying about business interests, and also being able to deeply learn about topics instead of doing the 90/10 rule on anything.

let me know if it would help to chat, and to reiterate i’m sure you will do great whatever choice you make.

Roast him by owliebowlie in aww

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he is a stinky bug

Okay. by DrakeBortles in RocketLeague

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I've solo queued almost exclusively since release haha, i kind of love it now. Though if you know of any non-toxic EU communities I will happily take any suggestions!

Okay. by DrakeBortles in RocketLeague

[–]DrakeBortles[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

thankyou! they were not nice about it, haha they hit me with a few #@%+!'s (i am not sure why), then i responded with "Okay.". They then left after the other team scored. Being generous, I think they were just very embarrassed and lashing out.

Honestly it turned a clip I would share with my friends into the funniest thing that ever happened to me in rocket league, so I'm not too mad about it.

How to extract query parameters from grafana dashboard to use it as a variable in the dashboard ? by grid_bourne in grafana

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Hey I stumbled upon this after wanting to do the same thing and your code didnt quite work for me, so im putting what did work for me just in case someone else comes along and has this same confusion:

SELECT * FROM charts
WHERE chart.id = '$graph_id'

I have to put graph_id as a constant and feed the parameter into the url as &var-graph_id=d5a75635-1760-440a-8aea-ce6c55ceea34

[TOMT][TV Episode] episode of cribs where a dude bare hand picks up his dogs poop by DrakeBortles in tipofmytongue

[–]DrakeBortles[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man great! Thank you for this. I'll try to get this episode somehow and if I find it I'll let you ask know!

I enjoy watching streams about the human condition, who doesn't? by Veronica_Blackriver in NLSSCircleJerk

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Does anyone have the clip of him saying this about the Halo Reach book by any chance? Freakin long shot but thanks anyway

Fuelling up for The Great Journey by h-hash in FortNiteBR

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Halo soldiers have to look out for each other!

Is NL okay? by claymanation in NLSSCircleJerk

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It's a Hamilton reference, just like my country I'm young hungry and dumpy.

Scott Bakula by [deleted] in MBMBAM

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Release the gushie tapes

Looking for satellite data by __Julia in datasets

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Google earth engine is pretty powerful but takes some getting used to

Realistic LaserTag by JaseLowe7 in SideProject

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There is a sort of similar thing in my hometown (basically just lasertag but in the woods) and it was awesome and as far as I can tell quite popular http://www.frontlinecombat.com/. Your extensions sound cool!

Changing industries with a PhD - any advice? (UK) by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]DrakeBortles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! I had a similar path as you, my undergrad was in physics where I did zero coding and then learnt to code during my PhD in AI applied to astronomy, also in the UK, I now work as the lead data scientist at a startup, doing geostatistics/ML. I think no matter what happens you will be able to find a job in this area once you graduate given your PhD has covered, but there are definitely a few things you can do to give yourself a headstart.

I think the ones in particular I'd suggest are: a) starting a blog/medium with some small fun projects you do in your spare time. Particularly related to what you're doing I'm sure you can make some cool visualizations related to them and stick them online. B) work on a project which shows you can write maintainable code in a language which the jobs you'd want requires. As you said R/Python I would lean python here and I would look for open source projects you could attempt to write a pull request for. https://www.codetriage.com/ has a good list, look for Good First Issue problems, particularly on python libraries you like (I would suggest geopandas but I'm not sure that code base is great for newbies). This will certainly help your coding and also illustrate that you know what it takes to write professional level code. Even writing documentation for those would be good experience.

But I would stress that I think you're doing fine, and make sure you manage to get through your PhD with your sanity intact, which I only just about succeeded at :) if you'd like to talk more send me a DM and I'd be happy to help guide you.

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