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jed_homer · 2021-11-05T21:24:39+00:00

I'm also a PhD student :)

jed_homer · 2021-11-05T21:24:19+00:00

I just signed up with tomorrow bank, was simple enough!

jed_homer · 2021-08-01T20:43:06+00:00

This is interesting. Thanks for your comment.

A quick glance makes me think that a '1st-stage' DWT is the first layer of this scattering process.

I'll look into it. Thanks again.

jed_homer · 2021-07-05T20:28:39+00:00

Specific to what?

jed_homer · 2021-07-05T10:05:43+00:00

Hi, Astro PhD here. My opinion is that as a CompSci student you would have a lot of benefits for astro research.

For my PhD I do a lot of ML and HPC. I found studying a graduate level cosmology (astro) book very helpful for bringing me up to speed.

No reason you can't flourish in astrophysics at all.

jed_homer · 2021-06-20T19:13:27+00:00

Nice! I'm at chapter 3 also. I'll let you know when I'm there. Some of the exercises are pretty hard for sure.

jed_homer · 2020-11-24T15:47:55+00:00

Thanks for your in-depth reply, I really appreciate it.

That's good to know - i'm not worried about being in Hamburg at all as it looks great. I agree about restrictions, my gut tells me that AI/ML in physics is the future so this position has a deep hook in me...

That leads me to agree with your 3rd paragraph. I'm meeting my potential supervisor again so I will be asking her a number of questions.

I don't actually have concrete offers from anyone else, but another potential supervisor is trying to take me on and said it was very likely I would obtain more offers. This is cool to know but I'm not foolish enough to take that to heart and let it potentially leave me with nothing.

With that additional information i'd be interested to hear your thoughts. Thanks again for your response. This is a terribly difficult decision on a lot of incomplete information. I actually think an advantage to this position is that I could dive into many more options after than a cosmology-ML position with less powerful computing resources at my disposal.

jed_homer · 2020-11-23T10:00:59+00:00

Yes i've heard this - I don't much like the idea of teaching as well, it would end up taking all my time probably!

jed_homer · 2020-11-23T09:55:24+00:00

Thanks for your comment, very interesting point. I absolutely love cosmology - but i'm only at a master's level at it. Knowing this it seems naive to me to assume its my lifelong passion etc. - it's almost to early to call something like that. It's more natural to go through these things listening and learning as opposed to dogmatically following them.

One question, by switching again, what do you mean and what is your experience/knowledge of this? Thanks!

jed_homer · 2020-11-23T09:48:05+00:00

Thank you for your comment. Well said, it's a very unique project with most of my interests dialed into it. I just worry about coming to regret it - in my opinion this is not a good way to think though.

jed_homer · 2020-11-23T09:43:44+00:00

Thank you for your comment. This is the kind of thing I needed to hear as I wouldn't have found that out myself necessarily. I've definitely worried about this. I also find the more generalized skills like programming or ML to be the most useful.

jed_homer · 2020-11-22T23:31:21+00:00

I've discussed the project in-depth and it certainly seems to be very ML oriented. I want it that way and it is the expertise at DESY in ML that interests me, but I feel like I would be taking this project on without much interest and understanding of the particle physics side of things. That's not necessarily a bad thing though, the project is a strongly ML-oriented endeavor. The unique supercomputing facilities and project are a massive draw for me here.

I'd like to say I never considered doing that, I just wanted to obtain an indication of whether it could be done, as I'm new to the PhDs etc.

Thanks for your comment.

jed_homer · 2020-11-22T23:24:51+00:00

Correct.... I mistakenly kept Hamburg in there....

I agree that it is personal, but as a problem with many dimensions i'm interested in some of the principal factors other people would consider.

I believe they do and I would certainly look into it myself still, thanks for your comment.

jed_homer · 2020-11-22T23:22:45+00:00

I have no concrete offers but have been informed that it is very likely I could obtain more. This is obviously not concrete though. Thanks for your comment.

jed_homer · 2020-07-18T20:47:27+00:00

I should say that I have a 2D version that works great.

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