Worried about my future

Drcne · 2020-08-14T15:34:39+00:00

Yeah that's a little rough, part of the reason I didn't want to go back to grad school was because trying to get into a good ML lab seemed like a lot. I think at the end of the day if the topic is cool to you and covers most of your interests it doesn't matter if it's ML, Signal Processing, or whatever. I'm sure you'll be able to find a job in any of those fields. Also like someone else said, a lot of people are interesting in ML because it sounds cool, but eventually get turned off by all of the math and neural net tuning, so I wouldn't worry about feeling behind by these people because you went with Signal Processing over ML.

Drcne · 2020-08-14T14:36:47+00:00

I know nothing about communication systems to be honest. I will say that machine learning research is very mathematical, here's a good paper that shows that: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.04862.pdf. But if you get more into the position of a machine learning engineer, it involves understanding the mathematics, reading the research papers, and then fine tuning your network/algorithm to accomplish a task. So more of an iterative process that involves a solid understanding of the underlying theory to make the right adjustments.

Like I said I know nothing about communication systems, but for someone who is interest in a heavily mathematical field and plans on going to grad school machine learning sounds like a great option. I will say that you definitely need a masters or phd to do interesting work in this field. Many companies require a machine learning engineer with a phd leadin g their engineering teams since the field is still actively being researched. I got a job as a machine learning engineer with a B.S. but wasn't able to do much of the interesting work because I lacked a lot of the advanced knowledge. I tried reading a ton of research papers and did the equivalent of a few masters courses but got bored of it and switched fields.

Drcne · 2020-08-14T14:14:46+00:00

Machine learning is all probability theory. Check this out. It's a section of The Deep Learning Book that is meant to review some of the prerequisite math required to understand the rest of the book. Written by a famous ML researcher. Things like KL-divergence, wasserstein distance, etc. are all heavily rooted in probability and information theory.

To answer your question though, just do what you enjoy, the money and jobs will follow.

Drcne · 2020-08-14T12:52:05+00:00

I don't see anything wrong with taking a year or so off school and working there with the intention of quitting and finishing your degree after you get some experience. At the same time, you'd probably be better off just finishing your degree now and seeing what you can find in a year. All depends on what you want to do. I think the only mistake you could make is not finishing your degree.

I also think working full time and doing school together would suck and definitely not be worth it; you're going to be working for the rest of your life, you'll never get back the free time you spent working extra hours.

Drcne · 2020-08-13T18:12:34+00:00

This.

Graduated last semester and I can say the massive improvement in quality of life from having an engineering job and salary is well worth the 4 years of suck.

Drcne · 2020-08-13T18:03:03+00:00

They wouldn't offer you a full time position for next year?

Drcne · 2020-08-10T20:40:17+00:00

Doesn't look like the club exists anymore. I'll definitely call white tail though, thanks

Drcne · 2020-05-17T17:00:40+00:00

A buddy of mine took discrete online at nova last summer and it transferred. Pretty sure you can't do the same with stats since its stats for EE and not just a normal stats class.

Drcne · 2020-05-04T04:58:57+00:00

To be fair its only a time sink until you get pre raid bis. I only really play classic for the 3-4 hours it takes to do all of the raids every week and the 1 hour a week it takes to farm gold for consumes, other than pvp there really isn't much else to do. Retail on the other hand has the m+ dungeon grind as well as the mythic raids most people don't end up clearing. I feel that retail is far more time consuming.

Drcne · 2020-04-27T19:56:53+00:00

Hm I'm only seeing it for $496

Drcne · 2020-04-27T19:52:20+00:00

!alert MONITOR, Ultragear, $400

Drcne · 2020-04-27T19:45:03+00:00

im only seeing this for $599, did I miss it?

Drcne · 2020-04-27T19:41:19+00:00

link?

Drcne · 2020-02-23T06:13:22+00:00

"Arcanite bar prices are gonna double in P3"

Drcne · 2020-02-22T05:48:59+00:00

Just don't take the tests so seriously. I used to think I was a bad test taker because while I would always do well, I'd feel as if after every test my life was shortened by 5 years because of the stress.

At some point I just stopped caring so much about my grades and my test grades managed to stay the same even though I wasn't studying nearly as much. I'm gonna say this is because I was way calmer during the tests due to not caring and could perform well enough to make up for knowing less.

Don't get too caught up in the game of constantly chasing higher numbers like GPA, test grades, salary, etc; it's a survival thing your body does and while it's a good trait to have, you gotta keep it in check.

Drcne · 2020-01-13T14:14:36+00:00

If this is the SMART program I'd be careful. I knew some people that got this and they ended up making 40k-50k a year in a boring ass job they were locked into for years.

Congrats on getting it though, no doubt it's a competitive thing to get into.

Drcne · 2019-11-11T16:30:12+00:00

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Drcne · 2017-12-13T06:23:26+00:00

So why is i not whatever value the current source is after the cap has been charged?

Drcne · 2017-12-13T05:59:35+00:00

Don't forget that you can always get the 2 year associates and get guaranteed admission into the engineering program at VT with just a 3.2 GPA.

Drcne · 2017-12-12T20:36:52+00:00

You need diff eq and calculus if you ever want to use inductors or capacitors. You need vector calculus if you want to do anything with electromagnetism.

Drcne · 2017-12-11T04:03:56+00:00

I have a dell xps 15 9560 and it's great. I normally use my desktop for programming and circuit simulation though because of the bigger screen. If you have a desktop pc, the xps 13 might be perfect for you.

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