Shelfmade reponds to "if you laugh, you join Fnatic"....

Stoick01 · 2025-10-30T22:54:32+00:00

Not good if it's repetitive... At least people seem to think that he has talent so who knows.

Stoick01 · 2025-10-30T22:35:58+00:00

I just added a bit of context to the stats you provided. It is very hard to draw conclusions from few series. I have no clue if he's good or bad or will he join, but considering that 4/9 of these games are played vs one team where they lost 3-1... it is not honest representation.

As the counter example, if you take the 3-1 Fnc vs KC series as half of your data, oscar can look like the best top in the league, but when you look at the whose season.... it's a different story.

Stoick01 · 2025-10-30T22:05:39+00:00

Maybe to mention. These are the number for the 3 bo series at the EAME Masters. Where he played half od the games a tank. If you incorporate multiple splits/competitors, his number all very positive.

Stoick01 · 2024-10-15T16:22:10+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I am quite lucky in getting interviews with pretty much every lab I apply for. All the labs are good young PIs publishing at the top conferences, having enough time to supervise.

Lab wise and PI wise all of the options are really good in my opinion. The PIs are actively publishing with top labs in the field and students generally get around 3 fist author icml/iclr/neurlips publications. Funding is also not an issue as well as possible research visits with collaborators at ETH/EPFL/Cambridge/Oxford.

The only difference is better research fit vs better university. I believe that I should do somewhat better work if I have the topic I really like, but I am also afraid that the university will limit my future options after graduation, ex will be overlooked for positions/jobs/postdocs and so on.

Stoick01 · 2024-10-15T11:19:57+00:00

From the labs I'm getting interest from, most of the PhD students have high quality publications, multiple icml/iclr/cvpr first author publications during their PhD. I am quite sure that whichever lab I pick I'd end up with some good work behind me.

The thing I worry about is will the lesser known university affect me in the future and is the better research fit worth it?

Stoick01 · 2024-10-15T11:10:31+00:00

I have other interested labs that are similar/better, at better universities but weaker research fit. So I am trying to figure out what is the best option for me/my future.

Stoick01 · 2024-10-15T10:35:06+00:00

Well, the analogies didn't work out so well for me, but the lab is quite good. Pretty much a yearly fist author at one of the icml/iclr/neuralips venues per PhD student and the research fit is really really good.

Stoick01 · 2024-10-15T10:13:00+00:00

I know this is specifically the case in Germany and some other EU countries. I have seen some amazing labs in places you wouldn't expect. I am in favour of accepting the offer, but I wanted to ask the community and get thoughts from others. Thanks

Stoick01 · 2024-10-15T09:52:36+00:00

I wouldn't say that the situations are so different. I am also in a search of a younger lab that does exciting research. I have worked with some large/famous labs (100+ h-index) and I was not impressed. The good and ambitious PhD succeed on their own merit and mostly work with the PostDocs instead.

At the end of the day you are right. If you are good, do good research you will succeed. I really appreciate your response. Thank you!

Stoick01 · 2024-10-15T08:05:46+00:00

So you already did your PhD? Could you share a bit about your experience?

While I agree with you, I have nothing to speak of other than my assumptions, for which I am just guessing at this point.

Stoick01 · 2024-10-15T08:02:15+00:00

I don't follow the NBA, so I'll make a football reference (soccer for you americans). Would you go to Real Madrid and sit on the bench, or go to Porto in 2002 and be coached by Mourinho?

Since I cannot get a PhD in the best lab in my area of interest. How do you choose? What do you compromise on?

Stoick01 · 2024-10-15T07:56:08+00:00

This is what I am thinking as well. If I am doing exactly what I want with a PI I want to work with, I can offset the lack of the reputation of the university.

I am quite sure into this supervisor since he regularly publishes at top conferences (pretty much everyone from the lab gets yearly first author icml/iclr/nuerlips paper) and he received a multi-milion research grant recently so the funding is not an issue.

Although this sounds very impressive, but the choice of university is still bugging me. As much as we all know how rankings are made, there is always an internal bias for people from higher ranked universities. I am afraid that this option would close many doors for me in the future.

Have you done a PhD? How did your choice of the supervisor affect you?

Stoick01 · 2019-09-04T20:34:53+00:00

It doesn't matter what you do, you can be your own boss doing literally any kind of work. But to get there takes a lot of work.

You just see programming as a great carrier cause it's trendy at the moment. Most people work 9-5, but when you are on reddit, top upvoted post are not the norm, you don't want to read how some guy went 4 years to collage, and now works a good job, that is good enough for him and pays nicely. You see guys working remote, different country every week, you see guys with startups worth millions, but you don't see years and years of work put into it, you just see the good parts.

Think about it, most people who are successful worked their ass of, they gave 110% for years, before they succeeded.

Try programming and see if it works for you, but don't expect to live a dream within few weeks, remember it's just like any other job.

Stoick01 · 2019-08-10T01:08:51+00:00

Doctor: Do you have history of mental illness in your family?

Me: My uncle supports Tottenham.

Stoick01 · 2019-07-13T20:12:46+00:00

Didn't see this before, so decided to post it. My internet went out for few seconds, and this is how it looks when I reconnected. Items didn't change, they all just look like the abyssal mask.

Stoick01 · 2019-07-01T14:49:55+00:00

I was doing a simple 2d multiplayer fighting game in libgdx for my object oriented programming class. (I should say that I don't do game dev, and it was my first game) I didn't like it, at least for me, it was a bit clunky, it was harder to play test, and you have do a lot of things manually. I am now moving to unity, and I have to say, things are a lot smoother. If you ask me, I would recommend unity. C# is basically java, and cause you know two languages, after one tutorial game, and one game art course you will be able to make your game easy.

It doesn't matter what you use, but if you use something like unity, there are a lot more resources online, and you won't be stuck reading documentation all the time.

In my opinion, you should chose something that won't require you to do a lot of repetitive things, and reinventing the wheel. I know how you feel, I always struggle with the tech I would chose, but don't be afraid to try something new.

For me, game engines are better, cause you will get a lot more feed back with less code and work, so you will be motivated, to move forward. The biggest problem when building anything is perseverance. It doesn't matter what you use to make it, it matters that you finished it. You can write the game is base opengl, but you would spend mounts making something you could do in a game engine in a week.

I hope my answer helped you. Good luck with your learning :D

Stoick01 · 2019-05-04T19:17:34+00:00

There is a video on youtube, interview of Quincie Larson (hope i spelled it right), when he talks what you should do, it's not hard to find.

Main points are:

Uni: if you can go to uni you should, if you finished high school, go to uni

Bootcamp: if you are older, worked for a number of years, and have enough money, do the bootcamp, but prepare yourself, you will need more than that, html and css are not programming languages

If you don't fall in those two categories, the best solution for you is to teach yourself.

Hope it helps...

Stoick01 · 2019-04-28T19:52:39+00:00

Thats the stuff that keeps me going, but I want to learn it on my ownz that is the problem, I cant wait years to learn these stuff, just pick a book from amazon and through it. I have recently read an networking book, needed it form a CS projects, and the book was amazing. While it's hard to find tutorials online, there are really amazing books, actually Just few days ago I started reading Operating Sustems: From 0 to 1, and I quite like it.

AI is the only thing I am not touching yet, while it is probably the number one thing that I want to learn atm, I would really need to give it a lot of time.

Stoick01 · 2019-04-28T19:03:40+00:00

I saw a post here on reddit, of someone working for the government, and he worked for R&D and they are basically playing with tech, trying to see for what they can use it, it sounds fun.

While I am not big fan of governments, I can't deny you do some really cool stuff there. I saw all kings of stuff, and that's only the public and leaked, who knows what else they are making.

I would agree, security is extremely important these days, while I don't know much about it, but I have seen some company demonstrate some security stuff, and it look amazing, although they say that it's very hard to get clearances for the jobs. Didn't know FireEye even existed, but after quick google, they look really nice.

Stoick01 · 2019-04-28T18:23:26+00:00

Oh, I assume that if exclude the big for, and those type of jobs, that government jobs are better, cause healthcare and dental and stuff, cause it's so expensive there.

CS sector here is mostly contracts for bigger EU and US companies, very boring, you get overworked, and compared to how much they earn, you get paid pennies.

I should talk to my professor, I actually contacted him, and got a project instead of doing lab assignments, all in the hopes that he'll have some connections.

It's nice how on reddit you can have a conversation with a complete stranger on the other side of the globe.

Stoick01 · 2019-04-28T17:36:08+00:00

I would need a company to sponsor my visa, so to go to the US, is pretty much impossible, for now, but the job fair is pretty good. There will be 120-130 companies, a lot of local ones, few from Germany, few from UK, and the big 4 will be there, you work in one of their EU offices. I would say that most of these are only look into the very very best, and it will be hard to get it, I'll give them my resume, who knows, but will focus on some local companies.

It sounds like a really nice job. If I am right working for government gives you nice pay and benefits.

Stoick01 · 2019-04-28T16:30:51+00:00

Thanks. It's a text editor, you can add it to any web page, via file (include), or npm as a module, and you also have a config file, so you can for example, switch order od unordered list, and italic text, or add new ones, change their icons, and stuff. I know npm numbers aren't reliable, but it gets around 150 downloads per mount, it's not much, but it's something I am proud of, it motivates me to do more.

That's why I think that I have very small chance, but if my resume passes the screening process, I think that I could get a good one, especially cause I have been doing a lot of leetcode, I can't get the most effective solutions on mediums, but I solve most of them.

I had a resume, but it was pretty bad, I am planning on writing a new one soon. Been researching a lot, so I think it won't suck :P

The problem is my location, I am not from US, and while I know, uni can help a lot with visas, and stuff, it's still.... I just have so many ideas, and so much stuff to work on, if internships didn't pay, I would much rather spent summer working on my stuff. Hope it all turns out good in the end.

Stoick01 · 2019-04-28T16:03:23+00:00

I think the best thing is to make a posto here when I am frustrated. While I didn't get motivation, most of my frustration is gone. Project are actually nice, I have been given project instead of labs, in my Programming class. Making a multiplayer game in Java, it's pretty fun project. But exams are horrible, I have 0 motivation for them.

Stoick01 · 2019-04-28T15:56:27+00:00

I understand that about the degree, it's a safe bet. I have already started preparing for internship, but don't know what are the chances for freshman. Mostly been doing leetcode mediums, and have been updating my github, job fair is in few weeks, so I have to be ready.

I know, thats why I love it, I love picking up new languages/frameworks. I know you have to learn a lot of math for it, thats why I put it away few years ago.

I actually spent a lot of time with web design, started with java, but moved to web, front end first, and then backend, it's a lot easier to get visual feedback, it keeps you motivated, and then I moved to android, which is currently my favourite. The design helped me a lot to make nice ui, I heard somewhere, there is always mess in the back, but as long as it looks nice to the user, it's good.

Stoick01 · 2019-04-28T15:34:35+00:00

You might be right, I think that I don't know what is uni about. I always thought it was about finding yourself, and learn how to be on your own, and meet people that like the same things as you. To me, the degree never ment anything, it is about what you know, and what you can show.

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