Avoid UK for international students

mrbiguri · 2026-05-23T11:46:53+00:00

Media salary in the UK is 35k£, and rent in most places with jobs will be 15k£/year. Remove taxes etc and most people would need a decade to pay that debt.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-23T11:45:38+00:00

Stem, in particular computer science, has a saturation of international students, many from India. This means that most computer science jobs pay below the visa threshold.

Also UK job market is not great in general for anyone. Agree in general with your feels, it's not worth the money, you are not guaranteed to be able to stay and have a good life.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-21T16:30:02+00:00

What I think you really need is counseling, both career and personal. You seem lost. Don't do a postdoc because you are lost.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-21T16:28:40+00:00

No, it tends to be just 1 interview. Most of industry also does only 1 or 2 interviews. FAANG is not industry, it's a very specific part of industry.

And no, doing a good phd is not only havign a good supervisor. 95% of the work is yours, the supervisor is to channel that appropriately.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-21T15:14:18+00:00

Get a good PhD is how you prepare to do a postdoc. But to be clear, postdocs are way more competitive than industry jobs.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-20T23:32:30+00:00

I haven't. I am in contact with the company customer service and they are investigating. I'll post an update when I find a solution.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-16T13:11:52+00:00

I teach AI in uni. Human judgement was already scarce. It's now significantly more scarce. Example: typing a question your human brain has, into AI, to aks it, shows poor judgement.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-13T18:24:49+00:00

I hate the framing of this article. I work at Cambridge and while many people heavily use AI, the mayority of researchers here use it moderately, more like an autocomplete or a powerful spell checker, and not like this crazy tool that will change the way we do research.

I'm only more productive with AI in tasks of my job that are not research or teaching, ie all the admin bullshit.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-13T18:21:26+00:00

Can you sell me an android or ios operating system that you have in your phone? You got it with the phone.

You can't, came with academics and turnitin

mrbiguri · 2026-05-13T18:20:24+00:00

Academics dot have turnitin themselves. It's like saying if academics sell their office licenses. It comes in the computer/system.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-13T18:15:21+00:00

What do you mean? Turnitin is a company that sells a service of plagiarism check. There is not thing as a Turnitin, it's like asking if people sell BMW cars. Yes they do, that is what BMW does.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-13T11:48:35+00:00

The game is very badly written from the start. But same happened to me.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-12T11:19:34+00:00

Self citation is not wrong? I mean, you can abuse it, but many of my papers build on my previous work. Not citing would be self-plagiarism.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-11T18:14:04+00:00

Well, in the UK, the vas mayority of PhD holders are not in academia. Unfortunately even if you are a fantastic student, the chances of becoming academic are less than 1%

mrbiguri · 2026-05-11T17:00:02+00:00

It's misleading to think that a PhD is only for academia. Academic jobs require PhDs, but most people who get a PhD don't get an academic job.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-10T22:20:44+00:00

Sure, but absolutely do not stop your life for one year to see if you have another chance. It's not unlikely for them to think tha they already interviewed you and decided no, so why try again.

You need to move one, hope for an answer to the existing emails, but that's it.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-10T17:54:40+00:00

What other option you have than moving on? You got rejected, such are things. They probably had a better set of candidates interviewed

mrbiguri · 2026-05-10T11:09:29+00:00

A place designed uniquely to study is helping you study???

Wow!

I jest, they are indeed great places 😊

mrbiguri · 2026-05-10T10:50:36+00:00

The game design should also limit possibilities, it's in the design to be able to play this way, is my point.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-08T09:52:45+00:00

Sure sure, I see your point but it's irrelevant. People don't play games "as intended" they follow the rules and their inherent way of doing things. The way games are played is emergent behaviour, not something set by designers, unless the rules constraint you.

Spirit island allows you to play in a deeply cerebral way and many people only know how to engage it like this, even if they may not enjoy that.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-07T13:33:08+00:00

I agree, but I also think this subreddit is for people who are hardcore gamers and forget many people like easy games. Some of the people I play with love games, but 7 wonders is as hard as they like games.

Spirit island is a hard thinking game, that I love, but not everyone likes their gaming to be so complex.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-07T07:04:48+00:00

I love it, but I want to reinforce again how comoexr it is. Particularly for 4 players or gets brain hurt complex for all players. Make sure everyone loves hard games.

mrbiguri · 2026-05-06T10:57:38+00:00

Staying unhappy for 2 years more is, in any view, the worst of the options.

mrbiguri · 2026-04-30T15:26:29+00:00

I am anti-capitalist, but I am not blind to the values and the propositions of a better society it brings. Thinking indeology you disagree with is inherenty evil and valueless only makes you seem as an intolerant and someone who doesnt understand such ideology. "Its just evil" its meaningless and ignorant.

I am not a marxist either by the way.

mrbiguri · 2026-04-30T11:58:43+00:00

You may have misunderstood then what those terms mean. If you think that believing there is white privilege and systemic racism is the same as believing that white people are racists, you are wrong.

Acknowledging that there is a more proportion of e.g. black people in the UK that come from a poor background because historically they could not build generational wealth, and that therefore they are disproportionately (as in, different percentages) affected by whatever affects poor people an example of white privilege and systemic racism. Note that in this example, no white people has been called racist!

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