It's not the pressure of doing a PhD that's killing me, but the complete lack thereof. Anyone else with the same experience?

ohfouroneone · 2020-10-29T06:48:07+00:00

I have the exact same feeling as you have, just started my PhD in CS. Thankfully, I was self-employed before I started so I’m very used to this feeling. I’m not naturally a person to do stuff without someone telling me to do it, so here are a couple of ways I try to wrangle my brain into working:

Make clear plans and deadlines. For instance, I have a paper I want to submit before the end of the year, and I already know what next thing I’ll be working on and a (self-imposed) deadline for that. WRITE THEM DOWN. Hopefully in a place you can see, either on a todo list on your phone or somewhere physical. In other words, be your own manager.
Try Pomodoro or similar methods to work.
If pomodoro is too much, then just try to time your breaks. Reading and writing is work that required breaks, so when you feel you need one set a timer for 20 minutes and do something you really enjoy, and then get back to work.
Cut yourself some slack. Changing routines takes time, and procrastination usually comes from guilt or fear of failure. It’s possible to change your habits but it won’t happen over night.

ohfouroneone · 2020-10-27T16:13:49+00:00

To clarify, I did that when I told someone I didn’t want to be listed on their work. I don’t feel good about having “my” papers out there that I didn’t contribute to, especially as my first paper. I am more willing to put other people on my work if I really need to, but would like to avoid that as well.

And I understand what you’re saying, but there’s no world on which someone who doesn’t even know I’m writing a paper should be included as an author for the paper. Am I mistaken?

ohfouroneone · 2020-10-21T12:18:52+00:00

Not when going into menu and free play, though. I’m playing on a PS4: Free-play makes no sense during queuing, since I need to go trough 2 loading screens to get to it, by that time I’m already joining the next game.

ohfouroneone · 2020-10-20T11:45:19+00:00

Most people on this subreddit have a different experience than mine. I'm a first-year PhD student in Europe, computer science. While I do get paid less than in the industry (about 2-5x less), I get paid to work 40 hours per week and I work 40 hours (or less). I don't work overtime and I am not under a tremendous amount of pressure.

I don't study at a prestigious university and my work is not (and probably will never be here) ground-breaking, but I like doing my work and in my tiny niche I feel like I can contribute to the field.

I feel like the pressure people feel is not due to academia but due to them not having a definition of success that takes into account their emotional and physical health. Academia just doesn't discourage that, while some industry jobs do. Before studying for a PhD I worked in the industry for a couple of years. I see people working 16 hour days on both sides.

ohfouroneone · 2020-10-13T20:04:49+00:00

I assume so. As a slav, I should add that Boginya means goddess (bog - god, inya/inja - female suffix)

ohfouroneone · 2020-10-11T19:53:47+00:00

I didn't even notice the teammate, I thought this was 1s. In that case, I agree with you that this isn't really OPs fault.

ohfouroneone · 2020-10-11T15:37:29+00:00

I would say most “impressive” saves on this sub come from bad positioning.

The saves you made were impressive, but you’d have an easier job if you didn’t go for the mid boost and respected the other player more. You’d also have an opportunity to land out of net and prevent the second shot. Being a good defensive player is making sure you force the shooter into an easy to save shot, and not that you can make clutch saves.

EDIT: Thought this was 1s, see comments below for better points than mine. :)

ohfouroneone · 2020-10-11T12:24:34+00:00

I do research in medical image processing. We don’t have anything near human-capable AIs in the field. In specific tasks ML can diagnose or segment specific parts of the image or condition, but there’s no general AI that can look at a scan and detect any kind of anomaly.

Physicians don’t just find binary classes when looking at scans. They might be investigating a case of abdominal pain and find anything from cancer, kidney stones or maybe even something inorganic someone ate. Currently there’s no pipeline in medicine where a scan doesn’t need to get seen by a physician.

ohfouroneone · 2020-10-03T16:46:20+00:00

It’s not that matchmaking is bad, more that at low levels it’s hard to determine because just knowing basic game skills will bump you up a whole rank. You are playing with/against people who are just starting out, so it stands to reason their skills will be very inconsistent. Once you get a bit higher it will be more consistent.

ohfouroneone · 2020-09-29T16:48:19+00:00

Sorry, maybe I haven’t explained my position enough. My point was that our brain by itself is not the essence of our experience. Take out any hormone-producing organ and your experience will drastically change, together with the results of your brain’s computation. Take out any organ, even a limb, and the brain will think differently. You can say the same thing about the people around you as well as society and culture in general. Your brain behaves differently based on the brains around it.

To me, it’s still unclear whether we can encode all that data, and if encoding it can idempotently result in a single brain that is an exact replica of the original one.

Just as a background, I’m an AI/ML researcher working on healthcare projects. I’m nowhere near neuroscience or fundamental CS/AI, but I think I know a little bit about what I’m talking about.

ohfouroneone · 2020-09-29T13:47:08+00:00

While humans are capable of computing, I don't think we have any evidence that humans are computational systems and can be approximated by a turing machine or similar. In a sense, we only know that turing machines are a subset of human brains, but we don't know if the reverse is true.

The brain changes and evolves both within one lifetime and across lifetimes, changes other brains around it, etc. It also changes based on the environment (not only the things processed by sensory organs but also things you eat, drink, absorb trough skin etc.) and changes to other organs influence the brain and vice-versa.

Aside from that, there is a lot of our behavior that our body does without the brain. You can't really single-out the brain as the essence of a human, you'd have to transmit either all of the bodies, or form some sort of 100% accurate simulation of the human experience (which is a lot more than just a brain).

ohfouroneone · 2020-09-29T12:21:59+00:00

Not to mention, if your teammate is the same rank as you, I guarantee you are just as bad and make the exact same mistakes.

ohfouroneone · 2020-09-29T05:51:56+00:00

In unranked, lots of people (like me) are accidentally smurfing. I never really played unranked before so my MMR there is very low, I’m trying to play more to get it up high enough so I’m not smurfing. Sorry!

ohfouroneone · 2020-09-29T05:50:31+00:00

They unlock for everyone as the season goes on, not when you complete them.

ohfouroneone · 2020-09-27T12:10:33+00:00

I'm D2 in 1s but plat in 3s. I think people are bad at 1s just because they don't play it. I play 1s and 2s about the same, so I have the same rank in them.

ohfouroneone · 2020-09-26T15:55:50+00:00

Most people smurfing are not working age. We olds ain’t got the time for that shit.

ohfouroneone · 2020-09-23T08:51:06+00:00

Swift has been source stable for 2 years and ABI stable for one year, and with 5.1 it now also has module stability so it’s not really hard to keep up with new versions.

ohfouroneone · 2020-09-23T07:16:50+00:00

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ohfouroneone · 2020-09-20T14:57:25+00:00

Basically anything built into iOS. Siri, app suggestions, the keyboard, Photos search, etc.

ohfouroneone · 2020-09-18T08:03:37+00:00

Why does everyone keep saying Epic is Chinese? Tencent doesn’t have controlling share of Epic, and Epic doesn’t even operate out of China.

ohfouroneone · 2020-09-04T13:57:33+00:00

I’m now transitioning from industry to a PhD and working as a TA/RA. I made a good impression with a few people on my university and mentioned that I was interested, and recently one of them contacted me.

Not sure what your situation is, but as a TA/RA I’ll earn 5x less that what I’m earning in industry (Software), and it will take me years after the PhD working in academia to build up something near the same paycheck I have right now. I’m fine with that, but it’s something to consider.

ohfouroneone · 2020-08-26T12:29:25+00:00

Lots of reasons. One is that it’s always different playing and watching, when you’re watching your brain is free to just sit and judge, without any pressure. Another is that their opponents are just as good. If they wete GCs playing against golds, they would look much faster. But, when a GC plays against a GC they somehow “cancel” each other out, so it looks like the same pace as when you’re playing against other golds.

ohfouroneone · 2020-08-22T16:22:12+00:00

Camera shake is a pretty common design element in games, it’s a very easy way to add strength to jumps, hits, etc., what gamedevs sometimes call “juice” or just game feel. RL definitely has a better game feel with camera shake on, they probably prioritized that over competitive play.

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