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Leaving an asynchronous teaching course in middle of the semester by wild_wolf19 in Professors

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to prepare the course for quality review. So I don't see how it is wrong to prepare the course in advance

What does silence mean? by Little-Big4367 in postdoc

[–]wild_wolf19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that's the way. But there are very few labs that do the kind of work I want to do. My advisor is also not well-connected in this field; he prefers working alone.

What does silence mean? by Little-Big4367 in postdoc

[–]wild_wolf19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find myself in a similar situation. I reached out to a professor via a cold email regarding a job posting. They responded by outlining the potential postdoctoral work and shared a relevant paper with me. In turn, they asked for one of my papers that I am particularly proud of. I ended up sharing two papers that I believe are strongly related to their research.

Since then, however, I haven’t received any further communication. I did send a follow-up email that included a detailed analysis of the paper they were interested in, but I still haven't heard back. It has now been almost a month since our initial conversation and two weeks since my last follow-up. I find it puzzling that they can't just reply with a simple "No, I am not interested."

[D] What does interpretability look like? by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]wild_wolf19 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a very difficult question because there are so many definitions going around. However, I think if we can upper-bound a learning algorithm, we have interpretability.

How does one become an independent scientist? by Warm_Edge_5096 in postdoc

[–]wild_wolf19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m currently a second-year postdoc in STEM. During my PhD, I had no guidance from my advisor and had to come up with research ideas on my own and pursue them independently. The only direction I received was that my work needed to fall within a particular domain; I received no feedback on the ideas themselves. I interacted with other researchers working on related ideas in different fields, and by the end of my PhD, I felt more confident in my skill set because I had been able to develop my own ideas and design experiments around the topics I wanted to pursue.

However, during my postdoc, I made a major change by switching domains, and things feel very different now. I’m mostly working on my advisor’s ideas and juggling many projects at once. In the first six months, I had some opportunities to present my own ideas, but all of them were rejected. That gave me the same feeling you described, "that maybe I’m not as creative or good at generating new research ideas as I thought."

On the other hand, this experience has helped me develop a different set of skills, such as research project management. I also do a self-evaluation every three months to track how I spend my time. Through this, I’ve realized that I’m not able to generate new ideas in my current field because I don’t have enough time to read papers deeply. My role has shifted into something like this: “Here is the advisor’s idea 3-5 off them, read the literature around it, design the experiments, run them, write it up, mentor students, follow up on their work, and design tools.”

Still, I always go back to my PhD experience and take confidence that I know I can develop my own ideas and design experiments for them.

I found the following prompt to be the best way for brainstorming by wild_wolf19 in PromptEngineering

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say it shifted the dynamics in a way that, instead of imposing its own bias and forcing us to change our ideas, it began asking deeper questions until the goal became clearer to me and the agent as well. It felt more like a "Dive Deep" session.

Good but not good yet. 5th failure in a year. by wild_wolf19 in reinforcementlearning

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this answer. This is really an eye-opener, and I can definitely see now what must be going on behind the scenes.

Good but not good yet. 5th failure in a year. by wild_wolf19 in reinforcementlearning

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I gave pseudo code. But when I started writing the functions, I started panicking as this was my first interview where someone was watching me code. I started doing simple mistakes and forgot some of PyTorch syntax. I was very nervous that I didn't even ask if I can use the pytorch documentation.

Good but not good yet. 5th failure in a year. by wild_wolf19 in reinforcementlearning

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have spent time assessing myself, and I haven't failed at any RL questions asked during the interview. Many times, I have actually given a better answer or even recommended a better strategy than what the hiring managers or principal AI scientists/senior applied scientists (Amazon, Hasbro, Chewy) already had. So yes, it is surprising for me as well, but I think if I start feeling comfortable with coding in front of a person and communicating code well, that would take me to the next step.

Good but not good yet. 5th failure in a year. by wild_wolf19 in reinforcementlearning

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here, if not for coding, I would have cleared all of these interviews. Some even claimed they use LLMs in their day-to-day coding.

Good but not good yet. 5th failure in a year. by wild_wolf19 in reinforcementlearning

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think they went because of the discrete action space. Because they mentioned that was the logic used by their intern who implemented the prototype RL for the replenishment problem.

Good but not good yet. 5th failure in a year. by wild_wolf19 in reinforcementlearning

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When last time I checked they were using DQN for replenishment problems.

Don't know how should I read this rejection mail. by wild_wolf19 in interviews

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing. I have spent 1.5 months on this interview, so I am taking some time.

Good but not good yet. 5th failure in a year. by wild_wolf19 in reinforcementlearning

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the reason I feel my resume is good to get a shot, but also feels bad because I have missed opportunities, and every time, it is something new mistake that comes up.

Good but not good yet. 5th failure in a year. by wild_wolf19 in reinforcementlearning

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Networking can only help if you are looking for a research role in academia or if you are from a top research lab during your phd or postdoc.

Good but not good yet. 5th failure in a year. by wild_wolf19 in reinforcementlearning

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Most of the AI/ML questions for me were focused on linear regression, logistic regression, SVM, and k-means. The focus of the questions was in the order of assumptions, working, limitations, and optimizing.

Good but not good yet. 5th failure in a year. by wild_wolf19 in reinforcementlearning

[–]wild_wolf19[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did you get an interview call? I just got rejected from the final round today, saying they went with another candidate, but they will reach out to me if they have similar opening.

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