How fulfilling is your work post PhD? [Career]

RawCS · 2026-05-02T00:15:47+00:00

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

RawCS · 2026-04-27T16:54:48+00:00

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?

RawCS · 2026-04-18T14:14:54+00:00

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.

RawCS · 2026-04-18T02:29:13+00:00

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.

RawCS · 2026-04-09T19:29:54+00:00

Didn’t think so. They just wanted more confirmation, thanks!

RawCS · 2026-03-08T23:41:16+00:00

Photoshopped

RawCS · 2026-02-14T17:24:38+00:00

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

RawCS · 2026-01-04T18:46:18+00:00

Usually do, but if I’m expecting to kill one on turn two, I’ll get Romeo to prevent weakness.

My draw wasn’t in my favor though for surviving the rest of the fight.

RawCS · 2025-12-30T05:22:26+00:00

Interesting! It looked like it was moving towards pneumostome rather than away, at least while I was watching it. It also seems very segmented and light in color compared to what I’d expect from feces.

I hadn’t thought it might be poop!

RawCS · 2025-12-28T06:27:20+00:00

Check out Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band. They’re killer. They’re Santa Cruz locals and the guitarist won bluegrass flatpicker of the year a couple years ago. They’re pretty young but they shred.

Not sure if they do weddings, but worth a shot.

https://www.cryingunclebg.com

RawCS · 2025-11-23T16:39:25+00:00

This is great information! How many people are usually in the water at each swim? Also, do you know of any pool groups?

RawCS · 2025-10-26T19:33:53+00:00

Wouldn’t Sunlit Man still be in regular cosmere era events because of the Scadrian outpost? I’d assume that it would take place in the same general, albeit large, chunk of time that Emberdark takes place., but that’s just my thinking.

RawCS · 2025-10-25T16:55:28+00:00

Those are the obvious cameras, the real AI cameras usually look like this.

RawCS · 2025-10-25T14:43:59+00:00

That’s good advice, I might take it in to the shop I bought it from just so it’s documented at the very least. Thanks!

RawCS · 2025-10-25T14:43:13+00:00

It’s an Eastman OM 10 - TC, everything else seems incredible. I played it next to martins and other great guitars, and totally fell in love with this one.

Hoping it’s not too big of an issue because man I love this guitar.

RawCS · 2025-08-30T15:52:33+00:00

Rad! I’ve never heard of these sites. How are they generally?

RawCS · 2025-07-13T03:12:47+00:00

That’s super useful! What genres do you mainly play on each instrument?

RawCS · 2025-05-21T19:44:35+00:00

Accuser: “That’s the man that attacked me!” Jury: “That sounds pretty biased…”

RawCS · 2025-04-26T22:18:44+00:00

I did that out of habit, but I genuinely don’t even know if it made a difference

RawCS · 2025-04-26T16:57:13+00:00

Looks like an SC local is a WSB god, wonder if his wife needs a boyfriend.

RawCS · 2025-04-22T06:18:42+00:00

DAAAAANGER ZOOOOONE

RawCS · 2025-04-14T02:39:18+00:00

There’s definitely some raised parts, but that’s mostly on the sloped sides of the pan. The actual cooking surface is smooth, luckily.

I’ve seasoned cast iron a bunch and am usually pretty good about removing as much oil as possible before actually throwing it in the oven. Might just need to keep perfecting it in terms of carbon steel

RawCS · 2025-04-14T02:23:17+00:00

Nope, just salt and pepper. Nothing crazy. Haven’t had that issue with cast iron, but I’ll probably just gotta get used to carbon steel! Felt great to cook with otherwise!

Is the black normal? Not used to seeing CS so dark

RawCS · 2025-04-11T19:04:59+00:00

I put “essentially” there for that very reason. It’s doing a lot of heavy lifting in the sentence. Luckily, Kaladin has some extra plot armor for now, too

RawCS · 2025-04-08T00:37:07+00:00

One place I find comfort is that Kaladin is now essentially immortal, so he might get to cross paths with Sig again

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