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by j7ake 4y ago
This hits deep and resonates beyond tech. This “ideas” versus “make things happen” divide is also prevalent in science and art.
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The academic life is also full of failure and rejections, but thanks to government funding not as extreme as the artist, musician, pr writer life. Some of the ones who stick through all the failure make it. Although that path long and uncer
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I use printer paper and a folder. I number pages to help order things.
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I loved that video (watched it a long time ago). The great thing about that video is that Ira Glass talks about storytelling / broadcasting, but he speaks at a level that is deep enough to connect to anybody in a creative field (e.g. w
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A library is not a physical checklist of books you’ve read. It is a research tool and a way to grab essential knowledge in physical form.
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Having input into higher level decisions.
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Unfortunately the demand for those jobs relative to supply is astronomical. So usually competition can be brutal and the pay suboptimal at the top labs.
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Some people work in areas where their results are directly tied to their rewards. And those environments are usually rapidly developing, so same results one year later returns smaller rewards. Therefore, in some areas, one needs to constant
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Why not try to do data work in science? Analysing astronomy data, particle physics data, or DNA sequences sounds high impact, and you have world experts on the data to make sure you’re getting quality curated data.
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This resonates with Sara Billeys advice for PhDs : https://sites.math.washington.edu/~billey/advice/timely.fash... She recommends 20 hours of research a week. But there is a high bar to what qualifies an hour. May
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For doing work that nobody knows exactly how to accomplish (eg going into the unknown), one iterates towards a solution by getting feedback through casually discuss ideas, listen to others seminars, and formally discuss in in-Person Meeting
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I would take a significant pay cut to have my own office rather than hot desking in an open office.
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I don’t understand how they are paying people 200k+ and unable to provide them with proper offices with a door and whiteboard.
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In modern society, deep specialised expertise is more valuable. There is a famous quote from Heinlein “specialisation is for insects”, suggesting we should not specialise. But in modern society where everything is interconnected, we are not
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Thanks for the details, would love to hear more about your YouTube rules.
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Yeah the constant is a poor approximation of the exponential. Maybe the analogy works better if I start at the second term . Zeroth order approximations are rarely useful because the dont capture the local gradient. But in the life analogy,
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Truncating the Taylor expansion after the first term says exponential y = exp(t) can be approximated as y_approx = 1 which is a constant. This is true if you zoom in around t=0 far enough. Then as you zoom out, you have to include higher or
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A related "math truism" is that the Taylor expansion of the exponential function is e^x = 1 + x + x^2 / 2 ... This means that, if a process like skill development is growing exponentially, then when zoomed in at very small ti
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In competition formats, the test data is not seen by anybody and after submission, the best algorithm is ranked based on how well it works on this unseen test data.
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Love the concept, but it’s so over used and misused in talks that I now have an aversion towards seeing that famous illustration
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It’s a protection mechanism for ones ego. Because if you “don’t try” you always have an excuse for why you’re not doing as well as the “nerds” at school. If you do “try” but you don’t get a top result, what would that say to a kids fragile
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These examples right here are the real skills to go beyond being stuck in purely technical roles. These communication skills are also much more emphasized in American phd programs than European. I have seen in general the American phd progr
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The problem with this list, although impressive in scope, is that it is not clear how /deeply/ one should know each of those items on the list. One can write several papers for each one of those items on list. Knowing the concept
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In the UK, 3 years is common.
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My experience with returning on Galaxus was very positive. Nobody does it better!
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Problem is these circles are dynamic and often unknown. What you’re good at depends on how much you know, practice, and inherent talent. First two changes over time, third one is an unknown variable. You also don’t know when you should give
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Buying vinyl is like buying a tshirt of your favorite band. It’s mostly a physical representation of what the ethereal media you enjoy consuming. Not practical, takes up space, and not as good as listening to the real thing (either live or
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Yeah it's weird. The optimization function seems to maximize the spending rate from retirement age to death, which happens of course when you hit $0 at death and save as much as possible before retirement.
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Machine learning is more broad than Bayesian statistics. More Bayesian statistics methods can be also be called machine learning, but less so the other way around.
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I find them excellent if you’ve learned the technical details already in a book or by yourself. Blog posts often are high level and can give alternative perspectives on the same problem. They’re also excellent to motivate a problem so the r

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