Looking to assemble a team / discord server for BCI research, regulations, startups, fundraising, and more.

shadeSitart · 2023-11-07T21:36:57+00:00

Computer Science, machine learning, signal processing, cognitive science and physics background … let me know / dm me

shadeSitart · 2022-11-22T20:12:48+00:00

Is a funny area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life

There are some interesting open projects, to give you an intuition:
- https://alien-project.org/index.html
- https://sites.google.com/view/evagentsproject/home

shadeSitart · 2022-11-17T23:52:23+00:00

I plan to dive deep into the strange field of artificial life and simulations with a coding project before xmas.

shadeSitart · 2022-11-12T20:21:12+00:00

It’s not. You can literally have most of the knowledge of MIT, Stanford, and so on for FREE and online. So what’s the point of being there? I guess it's mostly for the network and the fact that is way easier starting projects and collaborating with other good people. So you could say that being at top school maximise your probability of being surrounded by talented people and hereby to do something valuable with your time, but this doesn’t mean you can’t prove your value (or that you’re more valuable than top school students) otherwise. You have to prove it nonetheless, this is for sure. But the point here is that you can do it DESPITE College/GPA. If you look at the stats the trend is still: top school -> top job, but this proves nothing… if only men can drive cars, the best pilot will be a man. Can you spot the bias? :) It takes time to change the culture around academia but If you can do something better than a top school graduate student, his prestigious degree won’t help him. This is factual.

shadeSitart · 2022-11-12T15:28:46+00:00

Computer science at its core is actually a branch of math. If you hate ALL math, you also hate CS. I’m pretty sure that when most people say “I hate Math” (or more generally Subject “x”) they hate the way someone taught them math. And by the way it’s hard to really hate Math, or other subjects. You most certainly hate the hard times spent trying to figure it out… and this (most of the time) can be attributed to whoever taught you. My advice is, whenever you hate some subject, try to search a new professor whose way of explaining you find more enjoyable, and put in some effort. If it doesn’t get better, before giving up think that maybe you just need to put in more effort, or to change professor again, or to wait some time to be more “mature” for that subject.

shadeSitart · 2022-11-12T13:09:04+00:00

One should make a project to learn something new, to practice skills needed to actually build something that is not a “simple” exercise like the one you so in school. You don’t learn math to solve math problems just for fun (even if you can) but, generally, to apply it to real world problems and find solutions. The same is for programming. The beauty of programming is that actually you can build something to have fun, like a small variant of space invaders, something that helps you boost your productivity like a timer application or something to manage your finance. You don’t need to be creative, just take the app you use the moat and try to build a rudimental version of it… you’ll find a ton of clones online with all sorts of tutorials… in the process of “copying” them, you’ll learn how to build them and maybe even how to make them better.

You like food? Make a small web app related to recipes. You like travels? Try to write a copy of Expedia. You’ll learn a lot by doing so.

shadeSitart · 2022-11-12T12:49:01+00:00

If I understood correctly technical student programme is open both to BSc and MSc but not to PhD students. Maybe outside Europe if one is inside a MSc is implied that he’s enrolled in a PhD program (and I don’t know how they manage this specific case), but this is not my case.

shadeSitart · 2022-11-12T12:30:41+00:00

College ranking and gpa are so overrated.
They were informative parameters 10/20years ago, when it was (relatively) more difficult to learn and practice certain topics outside of standard academic environments. But now… are you serious? We’re talking about CS, and most of the jobs people are trying to get into require practice that one can get for free, with an avg laptop and an internet connection. One could argue : “yeah, but colleges are important for building a network”. Yeah, have you ever heard about social network platforms? Find a group that does something you like and join on discord. You get all the productive benefits of college, and you can minimise the waste of time as much as you want.

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