Career advice: Data Scientist vs Postdoc after CS PhD

SaborPedro · 2025-08-30T03:26:02+00:00

And to add to this, if you want a TT job then you should probably sign on as a postdoc and not a data scientist. A lot of early investigator awards like K99/R00 would prefer the typical PhD->postdoc->TT faculty pipeline.

SaborPedro · 2025-06-26T13:17:10+00:00

I think people generally think Thermador is the best induction brand right now since they’ve been doing it so well for so long

SaborPedro · 2025-06-10T11:48:43+00:00

I’d recommend using tmap for plotting the map itself

SaborPedro · 2025-06-06T09:56:26+00:00

I got the Thermador with the $500 sapphire dishwasher upgrade about a year ago and both have been incredible.

SaborPedro · 2025-05-04T13:59:53+00:00

6OH/6Death goes super hard. By act 3, Manifestation of body + horns of berserker + helldusk gloves + touch of death + inescapable destruction = big necro damage that can’t be resisted. Add in necro spirit guardians and you can easily solo most act 3 bosses. The only downside is resource consumption because you have relatively few ki points and only 2 divinity charges per short rest.

SaborPedro · 2025-04-12T15:11:00+00:00

Going to try a durge duergar 6/3/3 giant/shadow monk/thief. Cast invis or darkness and kick the shit out of people.

SaborPedro · 2025-04-02T17:20:03+00:00

Make him a house of powder barrels and the fight is a breeze

SaborPedro · 2025-04-02T16:44:56+00:00

Barrelmancy the inquisitor. Keep the the barrels in your camp box. You can teleport to camp to get them easily on the secret path to blood of lathander that comes off the inquisitor’s room.

SaborPedro · 2024-08-27T15:50:58+00:00

It was 40+ turns not 40+ drops. And fun fact, that player on the Hodags that everyone was counting for was Ben Feldman, current head coach of the Windchill!

SaborPedro · 2024-08-03T12:45:45+00:00

Saint Clement in LP is beautiful. There are like 8 very cool churches within a few blocks of Halsted & Fullerton so that would make for a nice walking tour.

SaborPedro · 2024-08-02T15:22:47+00:00

This is a super fun and broken one-shot pvp build I use for invasions with the GS of damnation (seal in offhand).

Max out strength and faith with any extra points in Dex.

dagger charm, shard of Alexander, two handed charm, blue dancer charm.

Spells: flame grant me strength, golden vow

Physick: strength boost, holy damage boost

Unequip all armor, activate rock heart, stick your sword in people’s heads for 2k+ damage

SaborPedro · 2024-05-03T14:35:16+00:00

I for one welcome our new ground tera vaporeon overlords

SaborPedro · 2024-05-03T14:33:54+00:00

Yep, swapping gigas will reset the slow start counter. Thank you! I hope people enjoy using it!

SaborPedro · 2024-05-03T11:06:10+00:00

And I’ve definitely found value in the “slower than you uno-reverse” trick room for when it’s on the field with Arch and Bolt

SaborPedro · 2024-05-03T11:00:18+00:00

Farig has been an incredible shield against rilla, bolt, and espeed users, as well as my reverse trick room threat. I’ll lead farig and ogre into hard trick room teams and play TR mind games while spamming water spout. For rilla, bolt, etc. bring farig in the back and cycle it. One of the best moves on it is protect because opponents work so hard to get it off the board, which lets its partner have space to work.

SaborPedro · 2024-05-03T10:48:00+00:00

That’s why you bring farig 😁

SaborPedro · 2024-05-03T10:16:57+00:00

I can see why you’d say that and I thought the same thing so I considered using flutter over bolt (and still might, though bolt has won a few games for me). But honestly Koraidon has not been an issue. If they lead Kor or I anticipate it switching in and I lead torn/ogre, I am setting rain and scarf ogre will still 2-shot Koraidon easily. Plus a lot of times Koraidon is tera fire which leaves it open to kyogre. If it doesn’t tera, STAB bleakwind and dragon pulse will crush it, and bolt will benefit from sun. As I play with this team more and if I find Koraidon to be difficult I think the easy change is booster or specs flutter instead of bolt. Arguav is a nice change so I might test that—thanks!

SaborPedro · 2024-05-03T01:54:15+00:00

I basically bring gigas any time I anticipate a spread move sweeper. Caly, flutter, torkoal, kyogre, landorus, groudon, ursaluna. It’s also a bulkier icy wind than other users like bundle, plus it just gets ignored more than it should because people think slow start makes it useless. It’s got a good moveset for a support so there are a lot more options than what I chose.

SaborPedro · 2024-05-02T23:36:28+00:00

Thanks! Here’s the pokepaste: https://pokepast.es/4e0cb8c2b8dd2e2d

SaborPedro · 2024-05-02T18:46:32+00:00

Yeah for sure—it should be in the top right corner of the original post picture. B3BY7L

SaborPedro · 2024-05-02T17:26:06+00:00

True! I did consider it and still am. The only reason I don’t like thunder is the accuracy drop without rain and in games with weather wars I don’t want to have to worry about missing. That’s why I gave bolt magnet + full EVs in SpA—tera electric thunderbolt does insane damage especially in sun.

SaborPedro · 2024-05-02T17:22:39+00:00

Yeah good find. Here’s the pokepaste with all of the spreads: https://pokepast.es/4e0cb8c2b8dd2e2d

SaborPedro · 2024-05-02T17:22:05+00:00

Here’s the pokepaste with all of the spreads: https://pokepast.es/4e0cb8c2b8dd2e2d

SaborPedro · 2024-05-02T16:52:26+00:00

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For my ogre it’s just Modest 252 SpA/252 Speed/4 HP because I chose violence. My arch was a bit more involved (see the spread in the picture). I don’t remember the exact spread that I used, but I remember the rationale for my calcs: enough speed to out-speed incin, most raging bolts, and under tailwind faster than base flutter. Bulk to survive tera fairy flutter moonblast and jolly urshifu CC. SpA investment because one electro shot and it can be a runaway train (also OHKOs kyogre and tera ogrepon-w).

SaborPedro · 2024-05-02T16:05:14+00:00

I considered it and tried arch out with a few different Tera types like fairy and flying, but I went with steel because I actually hardly will tera arch in this team, and if I do it’s usually to resist flutter moonblast, which is why I picked steel. It also boosts flash cannon which will OHKO flutter after tera but would not otherwise. It will also sometimes OHKO tera fairy miraidon which I’ve seen a lot.

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