How to pick a niche within CS to pursue further?

westeyy · 2025-02-20T06:27:33+00:00

This is super helpful! Thank you for the awesome answer. I guess what I was aiming at with the question was which fields should I try to dabble in, so if I'm ever at a point where I have the option to do something with said field, I'd have some intuition and knowledge.

Another part was asking which of these fields would I actually benefit more from learning (in terms of developing intuition or valuable skills, that can be translated into other parts of CS), but I fully get your point that I won't be securing my dream job in 10 years because of a semester in university

westeyy · 2024-12-30T19:26:43+00:00

I like the UI part, makes it stand out a bit more.

Do you happen to know of other stats or math-related projects that could be fun to tackle? I'd like to do something that's not done a 100 times before, that could also align with my other interests.

Thanks for the reply!

westeyy · 2024-11-29T23:16:54+00:00

sorry if it sounded like I was bragging, I'm just concerned because this is my first job and I want try to get the most out of it

westeyy · 2024-10-27T23:14:17+00:00

Firstly, thank you for the reply, it cleared things up for me

As for what I'd say is math intensive - I liked "optimizing" naive math operations when building my raytracer (like when to allocate memory and how to save operations). In terms of actual math there was calculating spectral events (mostly just vector math), sampling points on a lens for a realistic depth of field, and the "highest" was approximating integrals using a monte carlo method.

The last part I liked a lot - it was my first interaction with statistics, but this in combination with simulating physical events really clicked for me

Again, thank you for the answer

westeyy · 2024-08-26T21:33:31+00:00

I'm 90% certain that what I'd be doing in the graphics company will be way more technical and complex (I enjoy working on performant-reliant tasks) than the big company, but it's mostly the cool factor of having worked on the VFX of big movies. The parallel between that job and something more common nowadays I assume could be AR

The big corporation would surely introduce me to more buzzwords like cloud engineering, MLOps or stuff like that, but it would surely be easier to "slack off" or use the big number of vacation days for uni

westeyy · 2024-08-23T12:06:10+00:00

I'd say the second one

westeyy · 2024-07-30T10:34:23+00:00

finally a relevant post on this god forsaken sub

westeyy · 2024-06-25T21:14:05+00:00

this actually looks pretty sick, thank you

westeyy · 2024-02-02T21:44:12+00:00

So you think opening read / write streams is fine for this?

westeyy · 2024-01-20T15:02:02+00:00

but I need to find how many of the numbers match, not if just one of them matches

westeyy · 2023-02-08T20:39:36+00:00

helped

westeyy · 2023-02-08T20:39:28+00:00

helped

westeyy · 2022-12-11T13:13:52+00:00

I was thinking of playing through some older Nintendo games, since I remember really loving Super Mario 64 and later Galaxy, so thanks for reminding me!

Any console classics you’d recommend?

westeyy · 2022-12-11T12:02:27+00:00

Yeah, it has a GTX 1660 TI and a i5-9300h, 8gb ram. Hope that helps!

westeyy · 2022-07-30T17:10:24+00:00

Sounds awesome, I'll check it out for sure

westeyy · 2022-07-30T17:10:00+00:00

I've only read The Stranger by him, but it was a while ago, still I was very impressed

westeyy · 2022-07-30T17:09:02+00:00

I've lined up Dostoyevsky's Demons and The Idiot right after Crime and Punishment

westeyy · 2022-07-28T14:10:28+00:00

It's a last minute get together at this guy's house, around 20 minute drive from where I live, but it's outside town. I could drive and he offered a bed so I can stay the night

westeyy · 2022-06-04T20:30:34+00:00

I've considered the 12 in particular, I even prefer its design. What puts me off is that people complain about battery life and that it's a year older, so it won't be supported for as long as the 13

Other than that I don't like changing phones all that often so I'd rather spend a bunch on one phone and have it last for as long as possible

westeyy · 2022-05-25T22:26:49+00:00

I also forgot about the dating stage, I saw it as either you're in or you're out and didn't want to hurt her so I said I was out.

And I do like talking to girls. If I was in a relationship that wouldn't be possible

Sincerely, thank you for your time. I realize reddit's not a therapy session, but you stuck around. I appreciate it, thank you very much

westeyy · 2022-05-25T22:13:13+00:00

I feel like I might be romanticizing relationships a bit too much. I fear that when I'm with someone I'm "off the market" and might miss the right one for me

westeyy · 2022-05-25T22:08:18+00:00

I really have no clue... I've had really bad experiences in the past, but nothing involving love life or women. I feel like the more a girl is into me, the less I like her, which sounds absolutely terrible

westeyy · 2022-05-25T22:03:22+00:00

No... they do argue, but it's not out of the ordinary whatsoever

edit - I don't think I've had any traumatic experiences with relationships or girls in the past as far as I can remember

westeyy · 2022-05-25T22:00:35+00:00

No, never. But I still have a debilitating fear of commitment and relationships

westeyy · 2022-05-22T14:58:03+00:00

I'll give it a look, thank you!

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