Just had an applicant who, when given a leetcode problem, genuinely and wholeheartedly went “yeah so this is the prompt I’d give ChatGPT”
when asked how he’d verify gpt’s solution he further went “yeah I mean it can write tests too?”
one of the best parts about having a boss who’s completed their AI PhD 20+ years ago is that almost every conversation abt current ML trends goes
>“hey have you heard of xyz”
>“yeah you mean that thing from the 90s? Surprised it’s coming back”
>“what the fuck”
A lot of people romanticize hustling/grinding and don’t realize that a non-negligible portion of it is disciplining yourself to be okay with being boring and lonely sometimes (oftentimes)
>interviewing a new guy
>physics major really into AI, cool
>”so what did you do before”
>”yeah so I worked on an AI wearable but gave that up because it wasn’t working”
>stare at each other
>stare at each other
>stare at each other
>”not humane I promise”
Told a random girl I was in AI and she immediately gave me the most disgusted look and eyed me up and down before leaving who knew being in AI was so much like being a minority
Asked a lab what their protocol is for compute and all their students went “you mean computer? Like a Mac? That depends on your funding!” yea I don’t think this is for me lads
Speaking to someone just as passionate abt research as me and I feel like a fire was just lit under my ass I NEED a PhD I NEED to grind I WILL make a difference
Had a conversation w the new intern where they asked if I’d recommend learning how computers/terminals work before focusing on python/ML and I said yes. Then they asked what the point of that was if they just want to be an MLEng/SWE and my heart ached a little
I understand the grind and I understand some actions are more logical than others but what if I just blew up my life and moved to the US to do research aha
Just had an applicant who, when given a leetcode problem, genuinely and wholeheartedly went “yeah so this is the prompt I’d give ChatGPT”
when asked how he’d verify gpt’s solution he further went “yeah I mean it can write tests too?”
Had a conversation with my designated PhD council (friends in research) and decided I’m applying this round rather than next if I don’t get accepted to a US uni I’ll self delete
need a rent-a-boyfriend service where I can just rent a man for 20 mins while I walk home so I stop getting stared at. either that or jail pardons for women
opened twitter to show a potential supervisor a really cool tweet from a lab I like and got bombarded with a face full of anime tits thanks to whoever retweeted that
my big goal in life is just to be some big cracked anon. i'll be chilling just helping do crazy solo math stuff online. actually the dream is a cracked discord. what if that's what cicada 3301
Took up managing for ~a month and I now believe every manager position should come with company-financed therapy sessions. Every shift brings me closer to Alcoholics Anonymous and I need a minimum 200k wired to my account to stop myself from blowing my brains out
so what’s a more efficient way of working than wake up -> hyperfocus for 6 hours -> migraine -> hyperfocus for 4 hours -> migraine -> hyperfocus for 1 hour -> migr
thought I was an idiot until I sat in a room with over 60 people applauding a speech about how storytelling is our only savior against AGI-caused human extinction. OK 👍🏼
I cant believe I spent an hour talking about robbers in London only to immediately get mugged after I was given Apollo's gift of prophecy and I didn't appreciate it
I think when I move back to academia I will 100% have to switch back to an irl pfp bc every time I go to a conference I have at minimum 3 people ask me what cartoon my pfp’s from
@abyssalblue_
That’s the fun part - your brain is literally just a system! A highly stochastic, dynamic and nonlinear system, but a system nonetheless!! And the fun is just about figuring which current tools work to explain our observations!
I just told my local barista I already used up all the beans I bought two weeks ago and she went “wow I can see you’re ready to meet your God” chat is this an ESL moment
Maybe I was never made for industry because the mere Idea of working in a lab again to understand intelligence/learning dynamically and apply it to AI is enough to make me want to jump out of bed and work every morning
Question for a survey (targeted to Americans but non-Americans welcome): do you feel any prestige difference between Oxbridge and MIT/Stanford? As in, if you get two identical CVs except for the uni name, would it make any difference in how you perceive the candidate’s skill?
There was this really weird result I found in my MSc which I couldn’t for the life of me explain and I Never got an answer for why it made sense. Today I spoke to this big shot neuroscientist and he just very casually reaffirmed it and I’m just mind blown
Speaking to a friend abt the neuro research in a lab I wanna join and she goes “damn and like.. people actually pay you money to study that?” cooked me actually I’ll be drafting my 13 reasons pronto
@_R4V3N5_
congrats on uniting people from all walks of tech against one common enemy (this post apparently)
in all seriousness vscode terminal is ugly and therefore effectively broken and unusable
This might come out as a bit of a rant but never in my life would I have thought that I’d experience as much racism and discrimination as I have in the UK it’s absolutely mind-blowing
God I love neuroscience. I love AI. I love reasoning and decision-making and I can’t find a more captivating endeavor than trying to understand how the brain does what it does every second
No you’re not depressed you just need to be invited to a founding engs party and talk about how stupid you think AI is for 5 hours (this is the most sane I’ve felt since I started managing)
ml in the sciences is a god forsaken wasteland where the most yandere-dev'd code is alive dawg why do I have an average of 25 arguments per function and better yet why did they let me graduate with this
@Hankhill1645
this tweet was specifically abt MoE given its current rise in popularity (was around from the 90s, wasn’t aware) but same can be said for any other trends
Talking to my designer friend abt her blog and things she wants to do but can’t bc she’s restricted to no-code services and it hit me how lucky we are to live in a time when someone with 0 experience in webdev can just… prompt their way into their exact dream website
I’ve not spoken to a single PI that hasn’t said they’ve gotten an influx of proposals/emails that have ChatGPT written all over them… what a cultural shift
Fucking incredible that I moved to the UK right when the local population decided to go batshit. Hate tweeting politics on a tech acc but it’s truly astonishing that in 2024 you still have to explain that attacking an entire group for the actions of a few is, in fact, racist
if you constantly talk about how smart you are and how good your company is vs others there’s a 99% chance your work is not nearly as impactful as you think pivot from being an insufferable asshole
pro tip: instead of spending two days trying to figure out why the data makes no physical sense, consider that it may have just gotten corrupted in processing!
- someone who’s wasted 2 days trying to figure out why the number of nodes in a graph dont match
sitting at home, randomly lonely > overbooks friends for the next week > exhausted and burnt out, cancels midweek > sitting at home, randomly lonely > overbooks friends for the next week > exhaus