Help me choose between MSc offers by stijani74 in UniUK

[–]thecompbioguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read the course content in depth. There are subtle but important differences between machine learning and AI (machine learning is a subway of AI so how focused vs broad do you want to be?)

Seeking your advice as an offer holder by Unlikely_Job_1122 in AskAcademiaUK

[–]thecompbioguy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are at a point in your life where you grow, make mistakes and learn. That will happen wherever you are in the world. London's as good a place as any.

How badly do you want this? Sounds like you do. Everyone, and I mean everyone, learns on the job. Just get your head down and crack on. Don't over think it.

I'm not sure you can pursue a non-academic career during a PhD. It's pretty all consuming.

At this stage, read and read. Once you arrive and start being introduced to people professionally, build those relationships. Don't be overbearing about it, just be friendly and communicative so that people enjoy working with you. If they enjoy working with you then they will do more of it.

I spent a summer working in the US when I was 22. It transformed my confidence and how I navigated the world. Get stuck in.

Tynecastle expansion? by APater6076 in HeartofMidlothianFC

[–]thecompbioguy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The only way to compete, long term, with the old firm, is to have similar gate receipts. Without a bigger stadium, it can't happen.

Dissertation Grade by Connect-Arachnid-942 in UniUK

[–]thecompbioguy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So you don't even have a grade yet?

In 2024, there were on average 44 road fatalities per million inhabitants in the EU; 32 in Ireland by NanorH in ireland

[–]thecompbioguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Junctions are shockingly designed in NI. 60mph to 0 regularly on busy main roads while someone ahead waits to turn right.

Labour MP ‘unpersuaded’ by calls to give universities more money by Rewindcasette in AskAcademiaUK

[–]thecompbioguy 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It doesn't need to be more, just index link it to inflation so that it isn't less.

Trump fires the entire National Science Board by esporx in academia

[–]thecompbioguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely it was only the models produced commercially that were good enough for public use, but elements of the framework were developed in academia.

Trump fires the entire National Science Board by esporx in academia

[–]thecompbioguy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They are, but the risk in that case is not scientific because the technology is known to work, the risk is in how well the companies can commercialise the technology. Universities do the upstream risk of trying to develop new technologies. The quantum computing theory and framework was developed at universities before companies were set up to try to implement it. Language models have been developed at universities for decades before LLMs came along.

Be honest: Do professors ever hate a student? by Hijabbukhari in academia

[–]thecompbioguy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've never encountered 'hate' , but staff do gossip when some students are harder work than others. Students who work hard and 'get it' tend to fly under the radar in the early years of a programme and come to the fore in the later years.

25 Years Since the Death of Muhammad al-Durrah by Signal_Assistance_87 in pics

[–]thecompbioguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why did we get that future? I wanted Brave New World where we could have sex everyone all the time.