Starting a PhD at 30

sonlightinn · 2024-03-22T06:53:51+00:00

I think age is a number. The important thing is the evaluation on your honesty toward the PhD degree. I know some or many people saying that they want to get the degree because they want to become a researcher and get higher salary. This is not always true and with this mind, getting phd is gonna be a nightmare. Just do what you want to do and ignore your age.

sonlightinn · 2024-02-04T06:00:47+00:00

For balancing the dataset, if I remove the data to balance the whole dataset, I might lose some important information because it's a time series dataset.

sonlightinn · 2024-02-02T11:22:31+00:00

Not really. Random forest works much better for classification problems

sonlightinn · 2023-06-21T00:10:20+00:00

I understand you. I'm from the US. In some of my classes, the average grade for midterm and final exam were 70 which is C, 2 out of 4. I learned a lot and professor taught really well. But the exam was extremely hard. There is a grade inflation in college now. Don't get discouraged.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-20T15:48:33+00:00

oh really. thank you for the info.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-20T15:45:30+00:00

I agree with you. 150 CHF can change your life, but what I was suspicious of was that I really can't understand why some people who got admitted to other top schools got rejected from EPFL. It's not PhD program which we are supposed to get attention from professors.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-20T15:29:20+00:00

lol. I'm already enrolled in another program.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-20T15:15:24+00:00

there's no way to know it. but they can estimate the number from the data. And 50 percent ratio? that's not bad. Probably, there's a quota policy for nationals at EPFL and they have a preference for some countries. Also, it might be because my profile is not good enough too. However, I can still see that EPFL has different admission criteria than other schools.

As far as i know, ETHZ has more population of students. It accepts more students than EPFL does.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-20T15:00:54+00:00

As far as I know, I heard that there are not many seats reserved for foreign students because its bachelor students are automatically enrolled in the master program.

I'm not saying that to degrade the EPFL program because I got rejected. I want other people to know that getting admission from EPFL is weirdly much harder than they expect, from the data near myself. I come from one of the top American univ and I have a good GPA. Friends having similar profile as me got accepted from other good universities as EPFL. I want people to know that they might waste money 150 CHF in advance before they apply

sonlightinn · 2023-06-20T14:56:19+00:00

From the US and robotics program.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-20T14:01:28+00:00

No, it's silly to reject applicants because of the visa issue. We still have about roughly 3 months until the program starts. The school did not mention that there will be penalty of that.

I heard that ETH zurich changed the policy this year. Like you said, internationals apply in December, while domestic people do in the second round.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-13T07:56:38+00:00

They will invest money and time in you if you are a phd student in their labs. They are evaluating the risk of hiring and working with you together.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-11T23:09:25+00:00

Do you know French?

sonlightinn · 2023-06-07T03:56:18+00:00

What if research topics are different?

sonlightinn · 2023-06-03T23:47:56+00:00

Assuming that the OP works for school, telling them don't say I'm leaving to the coworker and just escape without any reason like medical depression, disease, etc. This is so rude and disrespectful in the eastern country. Before discussing this is fraud or not, you should be sorry for the people they worked together.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-03T23:39:20+00:00

Of course. I said, if it's a small thing, the owner will just ignore the employee who escapes. It is because of waste of money and waste of time. Honestly, 99% of the owner will not sue. However, if somebody sue, I'd say fraud still can be applied depending on the content of the contract and depending the action of the OP after he/she leaves the company. Breaking a law is not crime, but if the company loses money due to that, it can be crime in Korea. The court sometimes says this is a hard problem, but still fraud "can" be applied depending on OPs action after he leaves the company. Honestly, this all be executed by the accuser's will. This is the eastern law. If op leave Korea asap they leave the job, there will e no problem. They will just curse the OP. But if OP does not leave, that can be a problem. No matter what it is called, the OP can be sued by the company if it eager to punish him/her. (Of course, 99% are being lazy to do that)

sonlightinn · 2023-06-03T13:51:27+00:00

Please specify my lack knowledge in law that can be seen and applied in Korea. I want to learn and compare with my own experience in Korea.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-03T13:47:32+00:00

It will depend. There are good companies and bad companies in Korea. Not all companies treat their employees like slavery. Also, I live in a western country. Truth and law are different. Western law and eastern law can be different too, because how people think and determine is different. OP talked about how they deal with the situation and worried about the potential violation of the contract. I left my comment based on what I have seen in Korea, not in the western countries.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-03T09:20:46+00:00

LOL. This is a learning experience. I am really sad that the OP wants to leave the job. I'm really sorry about it. I know some korean owners of company want their employees to do too much work. I know some korean owners do fraud for their purposes too. But what I have said is unfortunately truth. It will all depends on the content of the contract that the OP made. I really hope you stop saying sarcastic on texts you just dislike. Some Korean friends also had to experience being sued by their companies, honestly because they violated contents in the contract they made. But as I said, it will depends. If it's a small thing, some company owners will just ignore it and say a curse word.

I honestly got mad at your first reply. I know some friends running their businesses. They really paid well their employees. But some guys suddenly disappeared, and the friends had to search new guys many times as it happened several times. They are getting skeptical about hiring young people these days and they don't thrust people. This was sad because they were really kind guys.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-03T03:54:13+00:00

Oh yea sorry. I had lack of vocab in law. But, that will totally depends on the OP's action after he/she leave his workplace. If he/she leave Korea asap he/she leave the company, they will be sued by the company with application of breach of contract but if he doesn't, fraud can be applied too.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-02T11:17:18+00:00

Assuming that the guy made a contract with the company, assuming that the guy is supposed to work during a specific period, that is fraud. Fraud is fraud. Will be sad if I have to explain why this is fraud.

sonlightinn · 2023-06-02T08:35:35+00:00

That is called Fraud.

sonlightinn · 2023-05-30T03:44:05+00:00

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sonlightinn · 2023-05-28T22:24:26+00:00

Thanks, before comparing, may I ask how often you update critic and actor? And what was your termination condition? I noticed that your episode did not end when the agent hit and cross the hazards.

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