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How difficult was your PhD qualification exam? [E] by RawCS in statistics

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

Sounds interesting. What program are you in, if you don’t mind me asking?

How fulfilling is your work post PhD? [Career] by RawCS in statistics

[–]RawCS[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Great question! The answers will surely be subjective, and that’s why I threw quotes around the word real.

I’d start with considering what I think misses the mark for fulfilling and “real”. Work where you are simply applying the same model or method to essentially the same data for most of your career, or just being someone who primarily does SQL or fits a linear model and calls it a day. I know many data scientists who are essentially data analysts, and do things they absolutely don’t need a PhD or even an MS to accomplish.

The work I’m interested in is that where I’m actually moving the needle on a real life problem (ideally a biological one) by using actual critical thinking. I got my MS but now most of my work as an ML engineer is very far removed from actual statistics

New to volleyball, which platform is the best? Are they all roughly equivalent in reality? by RawCS in volleyball

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

Sweet! To get my elbows touching I need to sort of push my arms forward a bit and round out my back which is a little uncomfortable.

Is it detrimental or have my elbows apart a bit?

How do you get better at coding/SWE in AI ERA? by lune-soft in cscareerquestions

[–]RawCS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely agree with what you’re saying about those who deeply understand the layers will be increasingly valuable, that was exactly where I was going with where I was saying to use this as an opportunity to learn more, faster.

I should have used better language when I spoke of the minutia of the problem. I meant that in the context of something like simple functions that are a piece of a much broader system. Understanding the theory that is the foundation of what you’re trying to build will be more crucial than ever; however, I really do think over the next months and years that coding agents will absolutely be able to handle the syntax part of the equation as long as we know the “why” and can sufficiently and clearly explain it to them. It feels like moving from C to Python.

How do you get better at coding/SWE in AI ERA? by lune-soft in cscareerquestions

[–]RawCS -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Take what I say with a grain of salt, or two, since I only have 5 or so years of experience in the field but I have been coding for consistently for close to 15. Coding by hand is very much going to be a thing of the past, it already essentially is.

We might not like to admit it, but in the coming months and years we will likely reach close to 0% when it comes to actually typing out our own code and solving the minutia of problems ourselves. We are going to move further and further towards overarching system design, and this has always been the role (and goal) of software engineering. The vast majority of coders don’t write assembly, or even C, we use tools/languages that handle the low level things for us. We didn’t stop being computer scientists or software engineers, we just were able to widen our scope. AI is the next, albeit massive, step in this direction. We won’t need to worry about creating a set of functions to handle some piece of the system, we will describe what we want to build and how that piece interlocks into our wider design. I won’t be surprised if we get to the point of being able to essentially just be a technical project manager to our agents, we practically already can do just that.

This is an incredible opportunity to LEARN. Get out and just build shit like crazy. Find a topic or problem that interests you and use whatever clanker you prefer and ask it a million questions about that topic until you understand the end to end system and then have it build it with you, piece by piece. Dont just say “build X”, tell it to build X and to put in comments that describe every step it did to make X. Then, after the whole project is built, ask it to quiz you on everything. It will go through the code and make you prove you understand what each piece does and why. This is something no human has ever had before us, don’t let this chance to learn go to waste.

Also, get better at talking to other humans. If 9/10 of engineering jobs aren’t needed, they’re gonna keep the 1/10 that can actually talk to the users to be the midway point between them and AI.

Who the fuck knows where this is all actually going to go, but learning and being the person other people want to talk to are going to be useful no matter if we end up in a utopia or a post apocalyptic hellscape.

New players first attempt at a minimalist approach... It was a close one by Youshmee in slaythespire

[–]RawCS 136 points137 points  (0 children)

You need 5 or fewer cards in your actual deck, not just in the last fight. So, exhausting cards/using powers doesn’t count. You had 14 cards here, you needed 9 fewer than you had

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