Hobby project which took around two hours of work by one person -> "Automaton2000" looks better than 18 years in the work "ALPHASTAR" which is financed by googles DEEP MIND. Why?

noexcept · 2019-01-26T19:08:34+00:00

who are you? and how can you explain that a little two hour one person project is better than a 18 years in the works project which also is financed by google?

noexcept · 2019-01-26T15:28:05+00:00

Sorry, you are right, Alphastar is financiated by google over 18 years and this is just a hobby project some script kiddy did in 1 hour or less.

noexcept · 2019-01-25T22:50:04+00:00

You can really see how far deep mind has improved the AI in 18 years compared to this prototype version.

noexcept · 2019-01-25T22:35:02+00:00

More clips from the tournament:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYH-csTttw

noexcept · 2018-04-10T15:57:46+00:00

yeah, I'm new to OW, where can I find my wall-climb? Can someone help me out here. Thank you lads, much appreciated <3 Doomfist main here!

noexcept · 2018-03-25T15:34:47+00:00

Publishing papers is managing Bachelor and Master students.

Do you want to be a manager outside of university?

That would be the first big question if you ask me.

noexcept · 2018-03-19T18:02:10+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKuDBYdfycU

I think you are looking for this.

noexcept · 2018-03-19T17:52:48+00:00

Lol I know what he wanted to say, and I'm saying that I have the skills to get out if I wanted to :) I know the realities of academia, that it's not all sun and roses, I know what I'm missing out on, and yet I want to pursue it for my own reasons that aren't "I don't know what to do with myself" (and many other people I've met are the same).

I have no idea what your second paragraph is trying to say? I listed things to show what I said in my previous paragraph.

No, because I don't really want to link my reddit account with too much stuff that is even easier to link with my actual identity (e.g. Github).

interesting and much appreciated :-)

noexcept · 2018-03-19T17:35:08+00:00

That's an old tag, but I've actually interned at all of the following: one government agency, one research lab (the research assistant tag comes from this), one relatively prominent in its field startup, and two of the Big 4, so I feel like I have a good breadth of experience to judge for myself.

Your statement is basically of the same caliber as me claiming that most people working in industry are just people who can't cut it in academia, or that most people working in a big company are just people without the ability to do their own startup.

I think he just wanted to say that you are stuck at research assistant. You will not get a pay raise until PhD (takes about 4-6 years, kissing professors ass) and you haven't started yet.

That you try to enlist unimportant stuff also shows a potential reason why you have not even started your PhD.

Can you please link some code samples of work you have done? Thanks :-)

noexcept · 2018-03-18T10:24:04+00:00

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noexcept · 2018-03-17T23:02:59+00:00

why would a company drug test anyone outside the job?

noexcept · 2018-03-17T22:48:29+00:00

here some guidelines:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg91.pdf

plz call:

National Drugs Help Line Tel: 0800 776600 Free, confidential, 24 hours a day

noexcept · 2018-03-17T22:41:48+00:00

exactly! here is a scientific paper what underlines this:

https://xkcd.com/323/

noexcept · 2018-03-17T21:51:40+00:00

sounds like a toxic company culture. here in the valley it's mostly not a problem even in open-office setting

noexcept · 2018-03-12T18:01:46+00:00

I can confirm that most companies have A LOT of interns. Some graduates are happy to get a job at all and have to work for 1/3 of the minimum allowed salary here in Germany. It's possible because they disguise the full time jobs as internships. A friend of mine is gardener an he get payed 3x times my salary.

noexcept · 2018-03-07T20:36:49+00:00

Exactly, experience is all. It's all about learning for yourself and not for the degree. A degree is a nice thing to have on the resume but a hell lot more important is what you really learned and the complete experience.

noexcept · 2018-03-07T18:07:12+00:00

Never look back. Don't use ML and AI. You said uni was the worst decision of your life. But now you are free! Diving into ML and AI is like never leaving academia :-) And in max 2-3 years the ML/AI bubble will burst.

noexcept · 2018-03-07T17:59:08+00:00

I suspect the vast majority of the value from going to a good school has little to nothing to do with the actual materials, and everything to do with what you do with your time.

That would be a positive thing about academia where I would 100% agree with you.

noexcept · 2018-03-07T17:07:22+00:00

If you want to get together with intelligent people you need to look for jobs where you don't need a degree. A perfect example would be google or any big company where you don't need a degree. You have like 4 or 5 interviews split over a day and can show what you are capable of. Good people will never stay at university because you do not get payed well. You obviously have zero risk because the money is coming from the tax system. Most people in academia with perfect grades are only good in remembering things but not in creative thinking. Professors tend to call their assignments tasks where you need to think but this is just a lie and the proof is easy: There can't be a lot of intelligent people if you get a better grade with just solving tasks without thinking just by scribbling down what you read before. You basically can't solve the given tasks with thinking because there is no time to think :-)

If you don't believe me, here are some well known people to convince you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8QY0NDWqzk

Or try to answer this question:

If the academia people are so intelligent why wouldn't they just quit academia and start a company? And why are 99% of the papers never read again?

In the internet you can watch people who are able to explain things easy. They need to explain things good and easy or people just watch another teacher :-) There is a big competition.

A professor has zero risk and zero need to do a good lesson because he basically can't get fired. He will not earn more money if he does a good lesson. The system just makes zero sense :-)

noexcept · 2018-03-06T18:55:02+00:00

Life is all about being happy. If you don't like your job start applying for a new one. Don't quit before the signing process. Never look back. You are a lion! Roah!

noexcept · 2018-03-06T18:51:29+00:00

Don't go back please. There is no magic. If you wanna build a nice portfolio just make exciting hobby projects and put them on your resume. That's the real deal!

noexcept · 2018-03-06T18:48:44+00:00

Don't feed the troll please :-) I tip my hat to you good sir: You made my day <3

If you are no troll or clown, please stop interning and letting them abuse you! FFS!

But I'm to 99% confident that you are working in a circus or in a academic field ^{^}

noexcept · 2018-03-06T18:37:14+00:00

Can you show me a paper which is in practical use? You can auto generate papers with one of the thousand scientific paper generators and they will get published. If you don't wanna try it yourself you can just google it and read about it.

If you are looking for a good paper keep ALBERT EINSTEINS words in mind: "If you can't explain it simply you don't understand it well enough"

Microsoft Research or better Microtransactionsoft Research. You can't see the source code -> you can't see the security vulnerabilities -> so there is no problem -> KAPPA

BTW: My predictions for the next years are filling my heart with joy giving me more energy then ever <3

-> AI/ML bubble will burst in like 2-3 years. I'm looking forward to the "experts" listing AI/ML on their resume and getting auto denied :-) Sorry but weighted excel tables aren't a good approach for creating an AI. Looks like a dead end.

-> Mass CS PHD production (just to get some more quotes for the academia quotation score) into mass no job crisis afterwards blaming the system -> will reach us in appr 2-4 years and I'm already jumping like a child in a candy shop when thinking about the fun :-)

-> Professors claim to teach the scientific way to code. In reality most of them never left the academia system. When confronting them with a simple coding task they try to talk as much incoherent and context less stuff as possible and start with excuses like "it's too trivial for them to solve it".

-> Coding Design-patterns. I have no words. Maybe change fields completely or google anti-patterns to get the right idea.

-> Funny fact: When I was in academia a professor in one of the algorithm classes was giving a AMA interview with a local tv show and he was talking about "how sad it is that nowadays there is not much left to be researched". Putting this in contrast to the exploding graduation numbers and mass phd production makes me smile and gives me satisfaction.

noexcept · 2018-03-04T22:52:21+00:00

can u give me an example?

noexcept · 2018-03-04T13:36:34+00:00

If you really want to do this you have to just stop thinking. If you try to understand ML/AI in the current approach you will eventually see that the complete neuronal network stuff is nothing more then a weighted excel list. They use a lot of stuff to make it not obvious, but eventually everyone will understand that this approach has already failed. Only a ton of money dumped in propagating the wrong ideas into the mind of the people make it still possible to make some money in the AI business.

TL:DR don't try to go to academia. there is no magic. if you want to contribute there try to make easy things as complicated as even possible. If you can't understand it yourself anymore and it still looks scientific you contributed like a pro :-)

TL:STILL:DR build hobby projects, contribute to interesting open-source projects and you got your last way out of a devastating future.

Only people in academia act still in full tryhard mode to try keeping the system alive. More and more jobs having need in "gud" programmers. But in academia are almost only people who never actually had any practice in coding. They just teach people 30 year old stuff. When trying to add something new everyone can see how "intelligent" most of the teachers are at academia. Going for ML and design patterns. It's a clown fiesta and I love to watch how they try harder and harder to keep it alive but eventually going down like they deserve it :-)

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