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Author says 20 hours / week of research, but computer work counts as half was because they are not deep thoughts. So for computational heavy research, this wou
by j7ake 4y ago
Author says 20 hours / week of research, but computer work counts as half was because they are not deep thoughts.
So for computational heavy research, this would mean 40 hours per week.
Taking the statement further, experimental research maybe counts as a quarter because debugging machinery is even less deep?
This would be eye opening and maybe explains why experimental phds are so much more brutal in terms of working hours than theory.
- goethes_kind 4y agoNot every Ph.d requires the same amount of deep thought. Experimenting and hypothesizing and writing code is just not the same as logically deriving a new proof, but not any less worthy of a Ph.d.
- orbifold 4y agoOf course if you do theory you barely have to work more than 4 hours a day can be counterproductive unless you are embarking on a Lurie or Grothendieck style project and work 12 hour a day.