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I have a PhD in Physics from a top 10 university. After 100s of rejections I've now given up and moved back to my parent's garage. All I do now is play video games throwing my life away. AMA

>> No.11281385

tell me something cool and easy to understand about physics that is revolutionary

>> No.11281386

>>11281385
I don't really know man. Starting to have doubts about science in general. My entire PhD itself was based on questionable research that was not really reproducible.

>> No.11281389

how does it feel to be a FUCKING LOSER lmao

>> No.11281390

>>11281389
sucks I guess? Not everyone in life can make it and success/failures follow a power law distribution

>> No.11281391

why don't do something interesting instead of playing games? Like building a physics simulation?

>> No.11281393

>>11281391
>why don't do something interesting instead of playing games?
There is nothing more interesting than playing games. Its the perfect legal way to cope besides taking drugs.

>Like building a physics simulation?
I don't even like physics anymore desu

>> No.11281396

>>11281393
makes sense, don't go for drugs... but can I propose a game?

if yes:
>factorio

if no:
>isn't there anything you like besides playing games?

>> No.11281397

>>11281384
You should write a book since you enjoy making up stories.

>> No.11281401

>>11281397
lmao savage

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>>11281397
>making up stories
here you go fren

>> No.11281408

Have you taken the Tedpill yet?

>> No.11281419

>>11281401
roasted

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>>11281397
>>11281401
>>11281419
>making up stories

here you go frens

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>>11281397
>>11281401
>>11281419
>making up stories

here you go frens

>> No.11281444

>>11281431
God damn so this actually happens. Tbqh this makes me feel better about my decision to ditch academia and renounce my dreams of getting my PhD. There is always this feeling in the back of my mind that maybe I could be one of the lucky ones and that in 50 years I'll look back and regret not following my dreams but... yeah. If there is anything useful that mathematics has taught me about life is that it is important to view life not as a human but as a risk manager. It is okay to ignore opportunities of the estimated probability of success is low enough, and it is pointless to wonder about the what-ifs.

But OP, you have a good degree. In about a year you could master programming and finance (if you haven't already). Why not just go quant?

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>>11281408
This

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>>11281447
A bit offtopic, but since we're sharing Ted's letters, might as well share the one I liked

>> No.11281457
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Regarding Ted's involvement in MKUltra

>> No.11281459

>>11281444
>But OP, you have a good degree. In about a year you could master programming and finance (if you haven't already). Why not just go quant?

I've already spent nearly 2 years trying to break in and was stuck in an endless cycle of rejections. I've been coding for 6 years and couldn't master shit. During a recent interview I forgot how to fucking do fizz buzz and differentiate a simple function as I forgot the chain rule. I think my brain's fried man. I've had to relearn and unlearn things so many times its literally fragmented my brain like a hard disk. Going through this experience has made me realize that I'm just not good enough to make it. Even high schoolers are better than me. I'm now too burnt out to apply to jobs now, and will keep on NEETing until my parents kick me out or sudoko.

>> No.11281471

>>11281459
pleaseeeeee
don't waste that, that's a physics degree in the imperial college! I know many places in Europe where they would die to have you

>> No.11281475

>>11281384
Why not do your own experiments? You have time and probably enough space.

>> No.11281483

>>11281471
I don't even like physics anymore though. I like video games more and my dream is to make a video game if I ever make it. Not sure if I am allowed to self-promoted, but I started a weebish web novel last year but kinda gave up on it since it was taking too much time and effort.

>> No.11281487

>>11281457
why did he start his letter with "dear my kaczynski" if it was allegedly kaczynski who was writing it?

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>>11281384
Sounds rough lad.
Best of luck.
>>11281487
>Andrew Kaczynsky

>> No.11281507

>>11281393
>There is nothing more interesting than playing games
How can you take the physicspill and still waste your time on games?
Build something, you nigger. Nature and civilization have given you the perfect crafting system.

>> No.11281561

>>11281507
Stop with the flattery anon. I'm not a fucking genius.

>> No.11281567

>>11281459
I think you're cognitive performance just sucks because you're depressed and have been for years. Get a job even if its menial. Do you have friends?

>> No.11281569 [DELETED] 

your thread is depressing as fuck anon. start running and work a dumb person job ffs

>> No.11281570

>>11281384
What's your plan for when vidya stop being fun?

>> No.11281577

>>11281459
how do you forget the chain rule?

>> No.11281584

>>11281393
You should get in the video game industry, even if your wage won't be good. A passion worth chasing means more than all the money in the world.

>> No.11281587

>>11281384
why don't you go into financing? You must be good with statistics if you have a physics degree. It doesn't even need to be special or anything, there are enough people in financing who can't even do basic calculus problems. why do you want to waste your degree away, lucky bastard

>> No.11281591

>>11281567
>Do you have friends?
No

>>11281569
I don’t think my situation is that unique desu. Due to survivorship bias you never hear about the failures as we are just expected to make it or die

>> No.11281592

Sounds like me except I've recently finished my Masters and will be looking to do my PhD in a few years. I wanna work first but so far I've sat at home playing vidya.

What was your dissertation about? What games have you been playing?

>> No.11281597 [DELETED] 

you can always put benis in bagina op

>> No.11281599

>>11281408
>>11281447
>>11281456
>>11281457
Literally nobody wants advice from a mentally ill murderer, regardless of how good at complex analysis he once was

>> No.11281603

>>11281587
>there are enough people in financing who can't even do basic calculus problems.

I keep hearing this but the fact is they have the social skills to make up for it to survive in the corporate world

>lucky bastard
I don’t know why you envy my degree, especially if you have a fulfilling career ahead of you. But yes, looking back I don’t think I deserve the PhD and someone else could have made better use of it

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>>11281599

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>> No.11281609

Prob a weird question but did you do phys undergrad as well from imperial

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>> No.11281619

>>11281459
nah you're just stewing in complacency, you're absolutely fine, there is no way you got a phd in physics at imperial without being far smarter than the average person, stop wasting your time with video games and get back to practicing coding and basic math for like 3 or 4 hours a day with some small projects and go fucking apply for an interesting job. you need someone on the internet to tell you this, and we're doing that in this thread. your brain is tricking yourself into thinking it's not worthwhile because it is programmed to stay in a comfortable cycle. it's wrong. stop listening to your animal brain and start listening to me, soon enough your human brain will take over again and you won't even need to try.
also focus on not being autistic in interviews, that's probably important. it's easy to practice and i'm sure your parents would be happy to help you practice. it might feel stupid but i imagine that's what wasn't working for you.

>> No.11281622

>>11281384
>After 100s of rejections
What were you trying to do? Go into research or be a professor?

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anon cares

>> No.11281624

>>11281384
Do you think you have passion for other things, disciplines related to humanities for example? I ask because you said you tried to write. Maybe take the humanities pill and start reading novels, fiction, etc. It might be a whole world waiting for you that you didn't even know you liked

Another thing: were you always good with math or did you struggled with it?

>> No.11281626

>>11281619
How do you go about breaking that cycle though. Not just for OP for me as well I legit hate myself solely because I know if I wasnt a lazy degenerate and focused my time into learning I could master so many things but how tf do you get the motivation to stop being lazy or just get out of that comfortable cycle

>> No.11281627

>>11281592
>What was your dissertation about?
I don’t want the attention IRL so I won’t say. But it was very much publish or perish. My profs thought my publication drafts were too shit to publish but they didn’t want to publish in a low tier journal because of muh h-index. Then when I got my PhD they just cut all contact, and that’s the end of it.

>what games have you been playing
Witcher 3

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>>11281599
Dude didn't even murder anyone who really deserved it. What a virgin

>> No.11281638

OP, I hate my job and was thinking of going for a theory physics phd.Thank you for making this thread and making me feel like a irredeemable hopeless loser.

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>>11281626
You gotta have an actual interest in something anon, you can't just force yourself to do shit or it won't be sustainable. Think about the long run. Think about what you would liek to do for 30 or 40 years straight. I personally wanna just work stretch run and eat liek a retard.

>> No.11281641

>>11281638
*an

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>>11281627
you sound liek a whiny insecure little prick with no confidence

>> No.11281645

>>11281626
Not him, but since I was young, I made discipline a goal of mine and ran daily. You should start exercising a little every day (doing something outside is best). And schedule a certain window of time to study/work something for a specific goal. For example "tomorrow I will spend 1 hour studying programming in order to learn looping, conditionals, and function syntax" or "tomorrow I will spend 1 hour practicing mock interviews with people" or "tomorrow I will spend 1 hour talking to booths at a job fair"

>> No.11281649

>>11281627
>I don’t want the attention IRL so I won’t say
Fair enough but not even a general area? Inflation? Astronomy? Solid state?

>they just cut all contact
That sounds pretty sad, did you have a good relationship with them during the doctorate?

>> No.11281655

>>11281459
Academia has become warped by the long nose tribe
They corrupted it to force you to publish as quickly as possible instead of letting you build a proper foundation. Instead of shekels, papers are the currency in academia.
That's why you're having so much trouble and have to keep relearning. You did literature review, skimming papers and have a rough intuition of foundational concepts but never real comfort or mastery.

>> No.11281658

>>11281386
sounds like psychology

>> No.11281665

>>11281655
>Blame the Jews
Standard terrible 4chan advice

>> No.11281673

>>11281386
It sounds like employers are right to reject you, then

>> No.11281892

>>11281619
The brain knows not to touch something hot due to learnt experience of getting burnt. Since I've been rejected so many times, I probably have developed learned helplessness now, hence not doing anything. Its probably just a phase, but I don't how long it'll last. Maybe I might just get bored of being bored and then recover eventually.

>>11281624
Yeah so I posted here earlier I was writing a web novel. But suffered from creative burnout and ran out of ideas desu. Thats the main problem with pursuing anything creative related.

>>11281673
You're probably right. I am lazy pos now. I wouldn't hire myself desu

>> No.11281928

I was going is same direction, I was convincing myself I'm stupid, no matter I was doing masters in electrical engineering. I was convinced my brain died after high school and spent few years neeting during end of bachelors and start of masters.

It's depression man, you need to find a way to break out.

>> No.11282049

>>11281892
How do you make your brain forget something bad it's learned?

>> No.11282091

>>11281431
>London
>Top 10 at anything
lmao. Uni papers are worthless, but this is especial worthless.

>> No.11282124

>>11281384
If it makes you feel any better I dropped out of high school and make six figures doing basic systems trading.

>> No.11282149

>>11282124
based

>> No.11282154

>>11281384
If it makes you feel any better, the number of "losers" is going to start to increase exponentially as EROEI goes beyond what is economical for complex systems and people begin to literally "die" by the millions. You have a lot less to lose than the bloated CONSUUUUUUUUUMERS who call people losers, and it will be extremely hard on them.

>> No.11282175

>>11282154
what do you think will happen?

>> No.11282195

you are not your phd
your are not your university
you are not your job

>> No.11282237

>>11281431
>Research Topic : Physics
nigga wtf?? why you didn't find a specialised field in physics, general physics is literally for people who don't care about getting a job

also let me guess, you were one of those nerds who go to Uni, study and run back to home, masturbate, study and pass exams.

if so, what happened to you is expected you retard, always make contacts

>> No.11282244

>>11282237
>always make contacts
how does one make contacts?

>> No.11282258

Sending a cv is an act of submission and employer ghosting afterwards is a truly profound insult. Even the interview process is more akin to getting someone to jump through hoops and do a bunch of irrelevant tricks to prove you're a decent lacky whose willing to submit.

If companies were truly looking to "make the world a better place", they'd want to get to know a potential employee on a personal level to know whether or not they are intelligent and honourable people - by spending a few hours hanging out - but that's just not the way they like doing it. It's a broken system, which favors the psychopath. I'd rather spend my life struggling, and either sink or swim doing my own thing, than suffer the indignity of submitting to the likes of some psychopath.

>> No.11282262

>>11282244
by not being autistic and actually being friendly with people, work on your social intelligence

>> No.11282265

Do you have a gf? Are you a virgin?

>> No.11282268

what was your thesis on

>> No.11282270

>>11282262
>by not being autistic
what you really mean is
>not being disliked by me, and I only like people who lick my toe jam

>> No.11282274

>>11282262
i wish there was an easy guide on how to interact with humans that would lead me to get from them what i want with little to no effort

>> No.11282281

>>11282274
put that on your resume, and you'll be talking their language

>> No.11282292

>>11282124
Where can I learn about this?

>> No.11282312

>>11281384
What method do you plan to use to kill yourself? I might end up in a similar position and there's no way I work a regular 9-5 like a slave to the jews, with a shitty wage to top it off. I was thinking of mixing formic and sulfuric acid to produce CO

>> No.11282330

>>11282270
stay like this, you'll do real good in life
>>11282274
experience is the guide

>> No.11282342

>>11282330
>you'll do real good in life
good relative to what? good relative to the psychotics who are willing to do pretty much anything it takes to "do real good in life"

>> No.11282350 [DELETED] 

>>11282330
you can have fun winning against people who aren't even playing your silly game, all you want

>> No.11282356

>>11282237
>you were one of those nerds who go to Uni, study and run back to home, masturbate, study and pass exams.
Not OP, but this is basically me

>> No.11282364

Stop playing games all the time and start helping me with my homework, faggot.

I am sincere btw, would you be up for doing that?

>> No.11282376

>>11282356
then you'll end up like OP, socialize motherfucker

>> No.11282382

>>11282330
you can have fun "winning" against people who aren't even playing your silly game all you want, if it makes you feel special

>> No.11282390

>>11282312
>slave to the jews
Go back to /pol/ nigger

>> No.11282399

>>11282342
Good relative to not being a NEET and killing yourself

>> No.11282400

>>11282390
No doubt, you don't see the hypocrisy in your own short, retarded post.

>> No.11282402

>>11282399
>when the retard becomes confused
>it gets angry and lashes out

lol

>> No.11282452

>>11281384
>PhD in Physics
>now a NEET who plays video games all day
Now THAT is based.

>> No.11282454

>>11281665
>>11282390
Academia heebs out in full force

>> No.11282478

>>11282258
>by spending a few hours hanging out
with all 100 candidates?
>the interview process is more akin to getting someone to jump through hoops and do a bunch of irrelevant tricks
i do agree with this though. why should i do a phone interview, 3 online aptitude tests, a video interview, a group interview and a final interview just to stack shelves at lidl? fuck that

>> No.11282488

>>11282478
>with all 100 candidates?
we're talking jobs where there are fewer than 10 candidates here
phd physics remember

>> No.11282491

For someone with a BS in physics, what would be a good Master's for employability?

>> No.11282499

>>11281384
You are not a failed academic, you're the typical academic. Go teach or something.

>> No.11282501

>>11282364
Anon can't even differentiate anymore, what do you think he will do for you?

>> No.11282512

>>11282488
op mentioned applying to programming and finance jobs, which are generally open to anyone with a 2:1 from the university of brighton

>> No.11282513

>>11282491
Back to the start, med school, PhD, then physician. You now have a job for life and are respected (admired even) by dumb normies (basically 98% of the population) even though you're making tons of shekels capitalizing on their illnesses. Since you're rich you can also score any woman (past 25 money is the #1 factor for men's attractiveness)

>> No.11282517

>>11281599
mentally ill people are the only ones worth taking seriously.

>> No.11282572

>>11282513
That would be nice, however it doesn't seem to be a simple matter to move to a decent country like the US as a physician, or get into a foreign medicine program.

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>>11281384
Listen here faggot! You have the most advanced degree you can get in one the hardest subjects to master from one of the best universities in the world. That alone makes you more accomplished than 99.99% of people. You may call yourself a failure, but last I checked failures don't have PhD's. I don't know what jobs you applied to, but fuck those people.

I would do some introspection and remind yourself why you decided to master physics in the first place. This may help you narrow down what jobs to apply for. I had a professor tell me that physics was the Swiss-army knife of degrees, cause it could be applied in so many different ways (medicine, economics, etc.), so don't think your options are limited. Also try searching for jobs outside of your country if you haven't already. There are lots of companies out there desperate for people with your skill set. I'd also give up on applying for jobs in academia if that's what you've been doing. They are VERY difficult to get into and industry generally pays better.

And don't worry about being out of practice. It doesn't matter how long ago you got the PhD, when employers see that it tells them two things: (a) you are brilliant and (b) you are driven, as it's no easy task to earn a doctorate's in physics. If you're feeling that rusty though, use Khan Academy or Brilliant.org to brush up on stuff. I'd also recommend Code Academy to master programming. They have a full comp sci course that you can complete in a few months and that skill will take your degree to another level. I knew a guy with a master's in physics that learned coding and is now making 1/2 a mill a year as a software engineer at Microsoft.

So take that same determination that earned you a PhD and use it to achieve the job of your dreams. You may not get it right off the bat. You may have to work your way up with a company to achieve it, but I guarantee your degree will pave you a path towards it. Remember anon, defeat is a state of mind.

>> No.11283088

>>11282274
How to Win Friends and Influence People
You should already know most of it.

>> No.11283093

>>11281384
>just go in stem lmao XDDDDDD

>> No.11283127

>>11281384
What's your passion? Do that. I have a physics PhD and I'm working some shit job while finishing an important work that started in grad school.

>> No.11283133

>>11281386
You sound like every machine learning ((researcher)) right now

>> No.11283462

>>11281384
Welcome to the club friend. Now you are free to research and write anything under the sun and truly explore knowledge without worrying about taboo or sucking globohomo elite cock to get funding. There will be a whole generation of basement dwelling intellectuals who will make art, do science, and push forward culture while breeder retards are pachinko balls in an ideology machine.

It may not seem like it but you are in the right place.

>> No.11283513

>>11281384
those who can't do, teach :^)

>> No.11283870

>>11281384
Why did you get rejected so much?

>> No.11283875

>>11281459
What jobs did you apply for? You only applied for stuff in the UK? If you were still getting interviews why give up?

>> No.11283885

>>11281658
Based

>> No.11283886

>>11282731
>one of
its the hardest degree you can get, well theoretical physics is; nothing else even approaches the intelligence requirements.

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>>11283513
Exactly. I mean right now, literally right now, OP can apply to do a PGCE at any uni and get £28,000 free from the government because he does physics, and an extra £6000 if he teaches it for one year. You can buy a lot of games with that OP.

>> No.11284008

>>11281384
>implying playing video games is bad
Hello /g/

>> No.11284023

>>11281447
>reason 3
This is why the final redpill is to study art. Art will never be replaced by robotics.

>> No.11284027

>>11281384
What have you learned about the universe?

>> No.11284048

>>11281384
The second you chose to study physics you became a failed academic.
I hope you learned your lesson for the next life.
With that said, if you could do it all over again what would you study?
Would you go full PhD or stick with a bachelor's and go to industry?

>> No.11284054

>>11281384
at least you tried.

>> No.11284056

>>11281457
>get rid of all your possessions and live in the woods
>also buy my book on amazon.com

>> No.11284142

>>11282731
Imagine sucking of a degree this hard. Who are you trying to convince?

>> No.11284159

>>11283513
>>11283897
>just fall for the teaching meme anon
>look at the high salary! :^)
Nice try, but I still remember as clear as day how my physics classes in school were absolutely terrible and disruptive. The chad bullies would literally drive the teacher insane to the point he actually threw the blackboard duster at the students face. The bully snapped and rugby tackled the teacher. It got ugly.

>> No.11284178

>>11281384
>I have a PhD in Physics
No, you don't.

>> No.11284179

>>11284178
not OP but see >>11281431

faggot

>> No.11284187

>>11281384
if you managed to get a PhD you could manage to bullshit your way into an unrelated job if you had any people skills

>> No.11284190

>>11284159
>public school
you never had a chance

>> No.11284587

Absolutely everyone is missing the point.

Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

>>11281384
Turn to Jesus friend. Take out your Bible and check out The Word again.

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>>11281384
Unironically start lifting, EVERYTHING else will follow.

Read practical programming for strength training and starting strength. (Dont do gomad ffs) and based on what you learn start training consistently.

Obviously clean up your diet.

Lifting will give you confidence and clarity like you havent had for years.

itll make you look better and itll make you significantly stronger both mentally and physically.

As you'll have a lot more confidence and much better looks all your social interactions will massively improve, people will naturally respect you and hear what you have to say, this will make it piss easy for you to get a job, a gf, friends, etc.

Lifting is your silver bullet friend.

>> No.11284639

>>11283886
Lmfao no

>> No.11284642

>>11284630
as much as a meme this is it is true. especially after the age of 25ish when aging starts to really kick in. maybe one day we'll have nanomachines making this practice obsolete but that time has not yet come.

>> No.11284653

>>11281384
Want to give up to, how do you deal with the shame?
>>11281655
> That's why you're having so much trouble and have to keep relearning. You did literature review, skimming papers and have a rough intuition of foundational concepts but never real comfort or mastery.
Fuccckkkk, this. I always learn more when I study a subject on my own now. College just ruins my brian

>> No.11284674

>>11281384
Your life was probably not worth much to begin with

>> No.11284684

>>11282124
do you use Support Vector Machines?

>> No.11284709

>>11284630
>>11284642
Not everybody can build muscle

>> No.11284720

>>11281384
I have also completed a physics PhD, but left because I thought my research was pointless, referees were arbitrary and a few other things. I have worked for 3 weeks at a consulting firm and quit because I didn't like the people there.

Are you any good at programming? Take a look at SaaS businesses, most of those people are working from home. That's what I'm trying to do now

You could also try sending your resume directly at the site of a few financial companies (large banks, trading firms, etc), they like PhDs. LinkedIn is not as good as doing that.

Anyway, good luck. Fuck those haters who want to put you down, getting a PhD is no small thing

>> No.11284740

>>11284709
Not everyone has legs, but telling people that they should run is also good general advice, you fucking retard.

We know that non-responders still enjoy a multitude of other benefits from exercise, particularly mentally. The percentage of the population who are non-responders is very small and most people who claim that they are one just didn't try hard enough or have functional training.

>> No.11284744

>>11284740
25% isn't very small, and spending years at the gym for no gains is not good for mental health

>> No.11284756

>>11284744
It's not 25% of the population, that's way too high. Older people, for example, seem to all respond to resistance training and other studies have shown that there are people who are only non-responders if they exercise once or twice a week but will see gains if they work out more than that.
>spending years at the gym for no gains is not good for mental health
It's very likely that the benefits in other areas would outweigh their egotistical feeling about their lack of muscle. If resistance training didn't build any muscle, it would still be one of the single greatest things you can do to improve yourself. Shouldn't you at least be suggesting for people to try it and then see how they make out? I don't know why you would make this such a sticking point to otherwise good general advice.

>> No.11284759

>>11284587
Based Blessed anon.

>> No.11284761

>>11281386
You're a perfect candidate for Renaissance Technologies. They hired a guy from MIT who failed to get tenure. Go back millions bro!

>> No.11284803

>>11284720
Thanks fren. Banks and consulting firms don’t accept unsolicited apps. Everything is automated now and you have to network like a normie to get past the HR screen. I’m tired of playing this twisted game so I rather not play it all and just play video games instead

>> No.11284804

>>11284761
Ren Tech only hire statistic wizards. Jim Simons himself said it during an interview. They do a lot of Bayesian modelling which I didn’t do in my PhD desu

>> No.11284806

>>11284674
Yeah you’re right. Got 7 billion people on this world and counting so it’s just the strong vs weak in the end

>> No.11284815

>>11284630
I unironically did actually start lifting at one point for 3 months. But I didn’t notice any net improvement and my defeatist thought patterns took over so gave it up. I think lifting only works if your life is already going good so it mainly just enhances it.

>> No.11284816

>>11284806
Enjoy your worthless life as much as you can before it all comes to an end.

>> No.11284825

>>11284816
Thanks I will. Why do you seem so butthurt and vindictive about it tho?

>> No.11284844

>>11282258
>If companies were truly looking to "make the world a better place", they'd want to get to know a potential employee on a personal level to know whether or not they are intelligent and honourable people - by spending a few hours hanging out
and that's why employers would rather hire people they already know, or referrals from people they know and trust.

>> No.11284851

>>11281384
I feel for you as a chem PhD who's also struggling. If you can take refuge with your parents for a while, do it. I don't have that option.

>> No.11284865

go /innawoods/

>> No.11284883

>>11284865
You mean where it's boring, cold, lonely, dangerous, and with no food? Why wouldn't he just keep playing fun vidya in his warm bed?

>> No.11284885

>>11284815
Read practical programming for strength training and ss.
Follow the guidelines.
Eat like a man.
Train consistently for over six months, out of pure discipline (you'll start to enjoy it tho).
Then you'll see results.

>> No.11284887

>>11282237
>also let me guess, you were one of those nerds who go to Uni, study and run back to home, masturbate, study and pass exams.
Crap
How do I not keep doing this?
In highschool it was so much easier to make friends, and even then I only knew a couple people. I haven't made a single friend in 3 years, how do I fix this?

>> No.11284904

If you are a physics PhD why do you keep doing programming and other finance shit?

>>11284851
>also struggling
With what? Just apply and get a job.

>> No.11284925

>>11281655
pls go back to /pol/

>> No.11284927

>>11282195
this^10

>> No.11284933

>>11283886
pure math is harder

>> No.11284936

>>11281384
Became a quant you lazy fuck, read some book watch some documentary and became motivate to became a quant

>> No.11284948

>>11284936
Can I become quant with CS undergraduate? If not do I need to get masters in math, or CS masters suffice? I did CS in shitty school so I think I can't handle math masters

>> No.11284954

>>11281459
holy BASED

>> No.11284963

>>11284936
I have never denied that I am a lazy fuck. I know what I have to study for quant but it’s just too much time and effort. I gotta have a good reason to study quant before I spend the next 6 months of my life chasing another dead end. Also quant is being replaced by AI and Data science now so I need to master Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning AND programming just to get past the HR blockade. The bar is higher than ever before and the eventual outcome is what? 80-100 hours a week of wageslavery. It’s not worth it imho.

>> No.11284971

>>11281507
Op is a liar

>> No.11284986

>>11284887
Try talking to another human being. When I did that I found out people will talk back on a stem course they have no choice.
>>11284971
He's not lying he's just lazy. You can get a phd and still be a lazy fuck

>> No.11284995

>>11284815
You quit lifting, it doesn't mean that lifting was the cause of it and that you wouldn't have gotten other benefits if you keep going. It should be considered a necessity for maintaining your body. It's like if you said:
'I quit brushing my teeth because it only works if your life is good'.

>> No.11285001

>>11284963
Too much work. Won't your uni careers service help? Your supervisor? Your group mates? It sounds like you are doing this all alone.

>> No.11285013

>>11284815
>for 3 months
You didn't even start lifting, also many people think that doing 20 sets with medium or light weight is lifting which is WRONG

When you lift always do heavy weights, when your muscles start getting tired, that's when the real lifting begins

>> No.11285015

>>11284963
You know your expertise could be useful, have you ever tried applying the mathematical models and theories that you learned in physics to other areas?

Statistics undergrad here and I'm interested in creating models of psychological social processes for my final year project. Would you be willing to help?

>> No.11285019

>>11285015
(Correction) Psych & Social processes

>> No.11285020

>>11284885
I don't have a money to eat like a man, to buy chicken breasts and eat then three times a week. I am unemployed virgin studying CS in shitty school

>> No.11285030

>>11285015
I am doing time series forecasting of crypto currency for bachelor thesis, will you help me please. Tried arima and failed now trying with LSTM. Can you give some hints? Help please

>> No.11285039

>>11285030
Yeah sure, what are your data sources?

>> No.11285040

>>11285020

>I am unemployed virgin studying CS in shitty school

Literally me. Our only honorable path is suicide being realistic here.

>> No.11285045

>>11285039
Also, what papers have you read up on it?

>> No.11285048

>>11285030
Here's a paper I found describing an approach adapted from standard models and regression trees and the data.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333464180_Forecasting_cryptocurrency_prices_time_series_using_machine_learning_approach

>> No.11285129

>>11281384
If you managed to get phd in physic I bet you know math

How about you learn c++ and python and get on hft/quant positions?

it hr grill get wet when they see phd in physic from respectable uni sending cv and you will actually make some real money

>> No.11285212

>>11281384
>he fell for the theoretical physics meme
based experimentalist wins again

>> No.11285232

>>11282572
Tons of pajeets do it so it can't be that hard.

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>>11281384
>studying science
>as a white male
>in the 2020s
Dude what were you thinking

>> No.11285259

>>11285129

physishits think programming is too below them

>> No.11285300

>>11281384
Why not transition to a cute girl?

>> No.11285312

>>11281459
Because your too good to get a normal job or to become a teacher? The fact that some people think neets are above hard working people regardless of what they do is unbelievable.

>> No.11285320

>>11281459
You sound like a faggot. Just go and get a job you lazy piece of shit. I bet you didn't even apply for more than 10.

>> No.11285334

>>11281385
Entropy is a field

>> No.11285350

>>11284803
I've anyways suspected this. Even the most well educated have to grovel and pretend and jump through hoops. It explains why people ignore the direction of the world. Everyone for the most part has had to eat shit so they don't have a burning desire to pursue justice.

Thank god I'm self employed with no leash. Not rich or in position to bully or boss people but I'll never starve and anyways be free. This is true wealth anyone can have. Fuck the normie circus!

>> No.11285364

>>11284803
I'm in a similar situation. We should meet up and start a business together.

>> No.11285562

>>11285334
Entropy is not typically represented as something localized, but as a quantity of the system being analyzed. I'm going to google entropy field to see if I find anything.

>> No.11285569

>>11281386
>questionable research that was not really reproducible
This is the status quo in a lot of fields

>> No.11285635

>>11285039
>>11285045
>>11285048
hello, i read in at least 2 papers about using SVM for prices predictions, but in my understanding in Support Vector Machines you get hyperplane that classifies observations into 2 groups so how can i use it for numerical predictions? Maybe something like: i take btc price: 5000$ and classify days where price was lower as -1, and when they were higher as +1? But then how to use it for prediction?
Also today i tried LSTM on trivial example data: only 37 days, results are pretty bad after 1 fit, so i am doing 30 iterations of fitting and in hope of finding smaller RMSE. Problem is: now program is on 4th iteration and already killing my integrated graphics card. Is there a way to SSH into some sort of supercomputers for free?
As i doubt i can continue my research on thinkpad, or maybe do you know some classical statistical methods that may work on time series and which are less computationaly intensive?

>> No.11285655

>>11285635
Not that guy, and I'm just speculating, but you can subdivide the classification into upwards movement and downwards movement. Magnitude is important for predicting price series, so you also try to model ot, anf usually, for financial assets, the absolute value of returns SRE autocorrelated. So try subdividing the problem into two subproblems:
1) use S.VM to classify upwards/downwards movement
2) use time series methods to forecast absolute value of returns
3) multiply the expected absolute return by the -1 or +1 given by the SVM and backtest that shit.

>> No.11285794

>>11281384
Get your teaching certification and teach 7-12 grade mathematics and or physics, or join the military as an officer.

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>>11281384
Hey OP what is your birthday if you don't mind, month day and year, i'm pretty sure i can do a horoscope reading for you to help you out.

>> No.11285861

>>11284815
read the sticky on /fit/!

>> No.11285987

>>11281386
Try DAARPA or go into scientific field in the military, They WILL take you. You'd get extra training and after your enlistment you would get the gi bill and be able to pursue another degree, or if you go to school while in the military you could get bachelors before you even finish and then use the gi bill to pursue another PHD in something useful like ME or computer science. Then you'd be like a super duper genius.

>> No.11286500

>>11285655
You mean SquareRootError*r when r=1 or -1, so result will be negative if it was downward, positive if downward? I still don't understand how to use it for prediction?

>> No.11286503

>>11281459
>I've had to relearn and unlearn things so many times its literally fragmented my brain like a hard disk.
Imho this is what happens when a person doesn’t learn something meaningful to them. I’ve memorised shitloads of a foreign language and lots of bits of history and none of it goes away because it’s meaningful.
Stuff that I don’t care about, it’s like I never learned.
Gotta have an overlying meaning structure otherwise stuff becomes almost unrecallable. University rewards this sort of temporary narrow binging and dumping without assimilation unfortunately. Gotta learn almost everything yourself and use uni as a supplement for blind spots and a place to get qualifications imo.

>> No.11286504

>>11281459
Also best of luck man.
I honestly don’t know how to help people other than “develop a sense of spirituality bro”, or whatever that centred sense of meaning is.

>> No.11286511

>>11281483
OP, you could always become a shock artist and sell artworks whose particular form is irrelevant because their actual value comes from your notoriety. Just gotta be original and shocking. I’m sure you can think of ways to offend people, particularly in bongland.

>> No.11286576

>>11286500
No. You mentioned ARIMA, right? Arima assumes certain things in order to forecast the expected value of the next value in the time series, right?
First, you calculate the returns on the prices and produce a new time series of them: return(t_j) = price(t_j) - price(t_{j-1})

The returns do not usually show any meaningful autocorrelation. But the absolute value of them does, so you transform the returns time series into the abs(returns) time series. Now, you calculate the autocorrelation on them.

The intuition of this is thus: you have no guarantees that a big positive return will be followed by another big positive return, but we do observe that a big movement will usually be followed by another big movement (we just don't know if it will have the same sign or not).

The classifier will be used to try to infer conditions for the sign of the movement.

In the end, what you hope to achieve is something similar to:
E[price(t)] = E[sign(t)]*E[abs(price(t))]
Where the sign is given by the classifier and the second term is given by the time series technique

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>>11281384
What kind of games? You into VR?

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Who is your waifu?

>> No.11286923

>>11286503
Maybe tests and exams do but a PhD in Physics from Imperial should guarantee OP both knows his shit and isn't a retard. I don't know how OP has got things so fucked up but it sounds like he's going for programming work but he doesn't know how to program.

>> No.11286979

>>11281475
or just go theoretical and self publish for fun...
But I realize you don’t enjoy physics anymore, that is kinda sad.

>> No.11286980

>>11281577
not using it for years is my guess

>> No.11286984

>>11281459
>During a recent interview I forgot how to fucking do fizz buzz and differentiate a simple function as I forgot the chain rule.
u just retarded my nigga lmao

>> No.11286985

>>11281459
Wait is this just about rejections for job applications? You’re not talking about being unable to publish in, you know, academia?

>> No.11286990

>>11281626
start from the bottom and work your way up.
clear your room, fell good about it, boost that for a 20 min workout or study session, blahblah.
Once you’ve started it is easy, and a few days later you study 4 hrs.

>> No.11286997

>>11281665
makes me feel better

>> No.11287313

>>11281567
that is a really kind supposition. God bless you

>> No.11288432

>>11281632
kek

>> No.11288448

>>11281483
Start live streaming to earn some money?

>> No.11288805

>>11284023
kek, that is what a non-stem person would say

>> No.11288851

I’ve come to realize that most of the opportunities in life are not due to your capacities and skills. Only if you’re creating it by yourself.

Networking and social skills is probably most important for being hired since hr is trained to hire the best looking, most presentable, most socially effective, smiling, nice people.

We were taught that to get a job we only need hard work and professionalism, that’s not true nowadays. You need it to keep your job not to get it.

Read that book “How to influence people and make friends”, and try to emulate that. Also read about some political/propaganda strategies for sell you better to the employees.

You’re not a retarded, you just need more political/social skills

>> No.11289388

>>11281431
>degree july 2007
>30-35 year old neet
you fell for the STEM degree meme without realizing the progressives ruined academics along time ago and now prefer hiring unique snowflakes like muh women and poo in the loo brown diversity hires that are deemed the highest echelons that need to shine through with their uncharted physical characteristics and prove everybody how we are living in a progressive era and its all fine and fucking dandy

>> No.11289393

>>11288851
Ok

>> No.11289420

>>11289388
Perks of living in North America. Move to a palce that is not hell on Earth

>> No.11289430

>>11289393
go back

>> No.11289484

>>11289393
based

>> No.11289504

>>11282237
>you were one of those nerds who go to Uni, study and run back to home, masturbate, study and pass exams.
guilty

>> No.11289572

>>11281384
Add me on discord OP
damaged#0794

>> No.11289691

>>11281665
>implying the current state of academia is the result of wholesome values implemented by those who care about the collective future

>> No.11289697

>>11284709
based cantbuildmusclefag

>> No.11289723

>>11289388
I was writing a reply trying to refute you, but in the end I was agreeing with you.

Fuck the state of arts and sciences. We are all doomed.

>> No.11289755

STEM is doomed, Humanities are doomed.
Then what should you major in according to this?

>> No.11289769

>>11281431
I finished my Master's being top 5 of my promotion with zero effort (i.e. skipped a lot of classes, studied only for a couple of days before exams). All of my classmates started getting jobs while I was sitting there, waiting for somebody to even respond to one of my job applications.

It took me one year to get a real, full-time job (I got a half-time internship in the meantime). Three months later I was already more productive than most people that had been working there for more than one or two years.

Lessons learned:
>Getting your first job is a lot more about having contacts than about your skills.
>Being a wagecuck is only worth it for low to average talented people. If you are highly talented chances are you are doing most of the work (and the thinking) while being paid a similar amount.

>> No.11289821

>>11289769

Most people can do the job, they only require degree for filtering people easily.

Imagine thinking that the hr will scan 100 candidates. They only will select the most attractive socially.

>> No.11289837

>>11281459
You’re not alone OP. I have an eerily similar situation

>> No.11289844

>>11289837
let's meet up and start a business

>> No.11289854

>>11289844
Down for it tbqhwyf, but I’ve had this talk with others and it’s difficult without having ‘industry experience’

>> No.11289859

>>11289854
Not so difficult if you're smart. Experience is easily gained and sharpened by someone with the motivation and ability. Just need to put the work in really.

>> No.11289863

>>11289755
get into medicine. at least in canada you will never have trouble finding a job

>> No.11290185

>>11289769
>>Being a wagecuck is only worth it for low to average talented people. If you are highly talented chances are you are doing most of the work (and the thinking) while being paid a similar amount.
price's law

the square root of the number of employees are responsible for half of all productivity

>> No.11290205

i would die to have a degree. i'm reading about mossbaur effect, ultrashort emf pulses, positrons, meson factories. im a felon and slapped a number 1 university im the face.

>> No.11290208

>>11290205
but im gonna become an industrialist & change through research

>> No.11290216

>>11281431
Imperial is an incredibly prestigious university.

Why don't you just get off your arse and apply some fucking jobs you idiot?

>> No.11290241

>>11290208
>>11290205
i could tell u shit, theories i have but man ud have to do that urself. u were never interested in it if u lost it. take Patrick for example: fucking child prodigy i hear OBSESSED with chem. all he lives for. or my friend who fixes clocks even for fun. we live on EARTH. create art, a philosophy, a science, or invention. u arent productive cuz u learn physic- only you are productive when u WIEld it

>> No.11290246

>>11284709
BASED

>> No.11290295

>>11284587
based

>> No.11290401

>>11281384

Thread summary:
>>11281459
>During a recent interview I forgot how to fucking do fizz buzz and differentiate a simple function as I forgot the chain rule.

>> No.11290405

>>11290401
and also that imperial college london is extremely prestige school and thats where OP got his PhD in physics

LOL

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>>11281459
>>11290401
>physicsfag losers have to unironically solve equations during an interview like it's a fucking pop quiz for teenagers

Are people who hire physicists just so used to people who have zero respect for themselves that they feel comfortable treating everyone like shit?

>> No.11290619

>>11281459
I understand your feels. I'd rather not dispel my story.
It is similar.

I am currently debating how long I want to hang on, before sudoku.

>> No.11290670

>>11290408
But >>11281459 is obviously a cs major

>> No.11290760

>>11290408
>Are people who hire physicists just so used to people who have zero respect for themselves that they feel comfortable treating everyone like shit?
I think the idea is to make sure they can at least solve grade school problems before you wind up paying someone $200k to solve problems he can't even understand.

>> No.11290790 [DELETED] 

>>11281459

> physicist
> forgetting the chain rule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZN2y-bJ-kQ

>> No.11290806

wtf

>> No.11290834

>>11282154
source on this

>> No.11290862

>>11282572
You could move to Sioux Falls, SD.
srs

>> No.11290882

>>11281384
Work as a personal teacher and watch anime

>> No.11290912

>>11290205
Dumbass

>> No.11291475

>>11281459
>I've already spent nearly 2 years trying to break in and was stuck in an endless cycle of rejections. I've been coding for 6 years and couldn't master shit. During a recent interview I forgot how to fucking do fizz buzz and differentiate a simple function as I forgot the chain rule. I think my brain's fried man. I've had to relearn and unlearn things so many times its literally fragmented my brain like a hard disk. Going through this experience has made me realize that I'm just not good enough to make it. Even high schoolers are better than me. I'm now too burnt out to apply to jobs now, and will keep on NEETing until my parents kick me out or sudoko.
There is a chance that you are not retarded and your cognitive capabilities are impaired by enviromental conditions.

Check for mold toxicity in your room.
Inflamation can FUCK UP your cognitive abilities.
Things like coffee and enviromental mold are a big no-no.

>> No.11291480

>>11281665
>Standard terrible 4chan advice
it's not wrong thou

>> No.11291507

>>11281459
lmao just get on neetbux

>> No.11291546

>>11291475
>Check for mold toxicity in your room.
How does one do this? Googling seems to indicate that there's no reliable way to test for mold if you can't see it.
>Things like coffee and enviromental mold are a big no-no.
But I thought coffee contained anti-inflammatory compounds. Why do you say no coffee?

>> No.11291563

>>11291546
Your story sounds similar to Dave Aspreys one.
I highly recommend to you to watch his videos and implement some of his solutions
> change in diet
> change in enviroment
> eliminate enviromental mold
> practice meditation
> do exercise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkUPz18qygg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r99u4B2dSfk

>> No.11291568

>>11291563
>>11291546

Also watch this documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI0_azQv6N8
https://moldymovie.com/
https://blog.daveasprey.com/moldy-movie-coming-soon/

If you want ways to check or find a final solution to the mold question go to dave aspreys bullet proof blog and search for mold:
https://blog.daveasprey.com/moldy-movie-coming-soon/
There are tests you can do and some solutions (some are cheap some are not).
Also if you have candida overgrowth then is highly probable that you are suffering from mold toxicity.
Go check that with a medic and see if you can start some antifungal protocol.

Bonus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci2cqAR-ftI

>> No.11291574

>>11290619
Let me give you a nice suck before you check out

>> No.11291586

>>11289769
>Being a wagecuck is only worth it for low to average talented people. If you are highly talented chances are you are doing most of the work (and the thinking) while being paid a similar amount.

Yes this is what I see. Also I'm doing my masters and in IT I just see people who are really fucking retarded getting paid 2x median. If companies can dump such ridiculous amounts on people who are actually working like 8 hours of their 40 hour workweek imagine the money you get just working alone. Hence I'm either going to pursue a phd or start something for myself. I live in western Europe, median wage and even 2x median wage is monopoly money here that you can't even buy a decent house with before you're 35 if you start at 25 given you save everything up.

Idk with current inflation level and with current house prices I would legitimately recommend to younger people to just do whatever they want since they're fucked no matter what starting income they'll get lol.

>>11285635
Your question is how to use this on a numerical dataset to classify two outcomes. The outcome here being a shift from a certain point to a higher point or lower point. You will have to label this data by hand probably, though a programming language like python can probably fill this in automatically for you. For example you want to know if the price went up or down compared to the previous value. (or maybe compared to the mean), then you can iterate over the numerical values you have to retrieve this label. Then you can use these labels along with the data point (which is their numerical value) to train your SVM algorithm and classify increase / decrease.

> I used LSTM
> RMSE
I think its better to use regression with L1/L2 first, less heavy on your pc and results will prob be similar if you don't have ridiculous amount of data. To save your pc you can use cloud computing and pay for that. I'm not rly sure what you want other than categorical predictions?

>> No.11291619

>>11285635

the price history probably isn't enough information to accurately model/predict changes in the price.

>> No.11291750

>>11291586
I thought about pursuing a PhD for a while because solving new problems is my kind of thing. The internship that I did was in a research group, indeed. I really enjoyed the freedom that I had and the kind of work that I was doing, but salaries for PhD students and researchers in my country are pretty bad compared to other careers. I also didn't feel like playing the advisor lottery; if you get a bad advisor you're screwed. It's easier to get a new boss than it is to get a new advisor.

Right now I'm thinking about gathering some experience at my current job and then try to start a small business with a group of friends. All we need is an office, computers, and clients after all.

>> No.11291925

>>11284709
That's not true
There's studies of people in their 90s that have growth, hypertrophy and strength

>> No.11291975

>>11290760
um ya, what's more likely? pretty sure it's this:>>11282258

>> No.11292014

>>11290760
Anyway, what field are you in that you didn't have to prove to some old psychotic that you're suitable for sitting infront of a computer 8 hours a day by showing that you don't have red hair, never ever stutter, and can jump through all of their irrelevant hoops on command?

>> No.11292021

>>11290760
Everything about this sentence just wreaks of total asshatery. If you're only qualified to make sure someone can solve grade school problems, then what business do you have determining who or who doesn't make $200k?
lol you and your whole team are a bunch of fucking clowns, and I get it you don't want anyone who might blow the lid on your scam..

>> No.11292141

>>11281384
How many papers did you publish ? What range of IFs ?

>> No.11292164

>>11281384
Have you read any of Miles Mathis' physics papers?

>> No.11292172

>>11281431
Just how on Earth can you get a PhD from Imperial and not get a job?
If you want to give up academia, you could get into patents, either as examiner or trainee patent attorney. Physicists are in demand and a PhD is appreciated. Both UKIPO and EPO are hiring, so do many patent law firms.

t. patent attorney with PhD in physics.

>> No.11292299

>>11292172
They're hiring but they're gonna get 200 people applying for the job, and they'll pick about 4 or 5 that they like for the interview and they'll hire one. That certainly won't be OP.
There's no way to get a job unless it's a desperate startup that doesn't know they could do better or nepotism.
Only medicine works.

>> No.11292418

>>11281459
Skip everything else and just meditate 12 hours a day

>> No.11292450

>>11292299
I doubt (>>11292172) is serious about hiring anyone, and is simply trolling for information.

Many companies never take their help wanted ads down - give ZERO consideration to anyone who applies - just so they can claim they couldn't find local employees when they submit their application for temporary foreign labour.

>> No.11292486

>>11292450
Or nepotism. You have to know someone to get a job.

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>>11292021
>If you're only qualified to make sure someone can solve grade school problems, then what business do you have determining who or who doesn't make $200k?
Interviewers are usually qualified professionals themselves, in some places they'll even be the people you'll work with if hired.
And if you can't even finish fizzbuzz, what business do you have applying for a $200k position?

>lol you and your whole team are a bunch of fucking clowns
t. that AA hire nobody wants to work with

>>11292014
>prove to some old psychotic that you're suitable for sitting infront of a computer 8 hours a day by showing that you don't have red hair, never ever stutter, and can jump through all of their irrelevant hoops on command?
Yup, I know your kind, projecting your psychosis on others.
We hire you and a month in you're calling tasks and directives 'beneath you', 'irrelevant', shitting up the company's name with Twitter activism, and demanding Tuesdays off for HRT

>> No.11292517

>>11292507
>interviewers are usually qualified professionals themselves
interviewers are usually professional interviewers and I cant be bothered
>We hire you
I didn't send you my resume, boomer.
>tasks and directives beneath you
Then file your own TPS report or import a smelly foreigner to do it for all I care
>Twitter activism
Nice job admitting you only hire people with similar politics. Not that I could be bothered with twitter.

LOL

>> No.11292518

>>11292507
ok boomer

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>>11281384
Im on my last year of physics PhD, I havent been to 4chan for about 2-3 years and I come to this thread. Nice.

Anyway, Im doing PhD in Europe and me and my friends are really amazed about your story. Each one of us consecutively makes deans list, we all have some grants and I have 10 papers (3 of them I consider quite good).
Additionally I do some pop-sci writing, even had an interview for local tv.

What Im getting at is that thanks to these efforts, lots of conference talks (12 so far) I already have postdoc lined up (abroad) and job proposal when I finish PhD (in my country but have to move, its good thing though).

All is based on merit, no nepotism needed.
Maybe its easier in Europe than in US (it certainly is not as "rat-race"y as US is) but still... today at Uni I heard a story about a guy who went to computing after some postdocs, worked only 1 week out of 4 for few months and got fired but is welcome if he gets his shit together. And all of this is in 300k city near the border of east Europe, so really, nothing compared to US.

>> No.11292560

>>11281447
based computer

>> No.11292570

>>11281384
An Hero before it gets any worse.

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>>11292517
>I cant be bothered
>import a smelly foreigner to do it for all I care
Wow, what a catch, only a psychotic boomer could say no

>Nice job admitting you only hire people with similar politics
Not even sure how "don't publish your politics" can be construed this way
Dilate

>> No.11292669

>>11284023
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

You're funny anon.

>> No.11292696

>>11292525
Not OP but I am very amazed about YOUR story. I'm in the US too and everything is definitely first and foremost about office politics. Grants are generally pretty hard to get and in the past several years most grants started posting about how they're either freezing funding for white men or how they're "looking for more diversity" and other bullshit, making it even harder. I have started my PhD recently and I have 7 papers, including 2 as (co-)first author, so not quite the 10 you have though.
There's lots of politics involved, and it's very common for the list of authors and their position on a paper to be purely based on politics. Some labs will force anyone, no matter involvement levels, to be put on a paper, and some RD's will enforce that someone he likes but hasn't even touched the paper or even interacted with the people involved be first author. It's also very common for people to name each other on papers they're not involved in to double their citation count and publication count as well as to change the author order for similar reasons and other "tits-for-tats" fudging.
Additionally, the publish-or-perish culture makes this not only prevalent and expected, but normalized.
Now, with all that said, everyone I know is saying it's even worse in most of europe, and especially that past a PhD, tenure is usually only obtained by doing politics all the way.

>> No.11292705

>>11285987
FUCK no. stay the fuck away from the military. uncle Sam has fucked me in the ass enough times that i can recommend you not do this.

>> No.11292792

>>11281384
I'm headed for your trajectory m8. Hang in there, don'T lose hope. I hope you have got some hobbies and friends, otherwise acquire some soon. BEst

>> No.11292811

>>11292792
In my undergrad physics years, after exams where I was burnt out completely and my brain was fried, I listened to some free jazz music. So garbled it's reassuring in a way. try this (and definitely the whole album if you dig it. Song X by Metheny/Coleman): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TOA3I63c-0

>> No.11292896

>>11281384
Sounds like depression. Get some anti-depressants. You'll have to try several before you get one that works for you.

>> No.11293183

>>11281390
What does this mean? I thought that the more failures one has, the more chances are there to succeed? Don't they say that behind every great success there are lots of failed attempts that most people don't even realize are there?

>> No.11293199

>>11281567
This. Why don’t you head over to fit and get your hormones sorted. If you’re this defeated and you’re a younger man you best get your ass under some weight and force your cns to adapt with more testosterone. Before you know it you’ll be gettin big, gettin double takes from would be employers etc. trust me I’m 30 been on top of the world and on the bottom and when I can clean 300 lbs into a truck in one movement I tend to become employed. Get your foot in the door

>> No.11293206

>>11281626
Well not by doing the same thing you did today. That’s certain.

>> No.11293214

>>11282478
>100 candidates
Put in order from best to worst on paper
Meet with first 20 for 2 hours each
In one week you have gone thru the cream of the crop. Wow I should be on recruiting somewhere gee whiz

>> No.11293224

>>11284815
Unless you did did 6 compound barbell movements with a weight that you Cannot rep for more than 5 reps, full body, every other day, and counted your calories so as to ensure a 300-700 calorie surplus high in protein and carbs, you wasted 3 months. Now go read the sticky on /fit. This sprig/ summer could be your time ya fuckin Deadbeat BoNG

>> No.11293234

>>11285020
Fuck off bud, on this side of the pond I can get a whole chicken for 10$ You can eat half a chicken a day and a bowl of broccoli and rice with whatever flavor you need to feel ok about life and still have food stamps left over. 40 dollars a week for meat, 10 for rice and veggies. If you can’t cut a lawn for 20 bucks so you can make yourself a sandwich I think you should just put your fucking diploma in The mail return to sender

>> No.11293287

>>11285569
Why

>> No.11293323

>>11292299
Imperial has a near 100% hire rate. OP has to be very mentally ill lmao

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>>11281632

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>>11292696
I cannot agree, however I know nothing except my field (condensed matter). I also do theoretical physics so I never had more than 4 authors in a paper (except some quasi-review but its meh and has 0 citations). so no really any office politics there (only once, on my 1st paper that was essentially my masters thesis I got shifted to 2nd of 3 authors because previous PhD student of my supervisor needed a 1st author publication for the grant finalisation).

As for granting systems we only have "more diversity" in the situation that e.g. min.40% of grants have to go to women, so usually that all the women that apply for something.

As for the post doc situation there is plenty of places to do so, in germany and italy they really need some people because ~70% of phd graduates go to tech as you might earn 4-5x as much there. I dont know whats happening in GB, I guess with brexit all shit is on but even here, at my university, we just 3 months ago employed a guy from GB (he had postdocs in US, 2x germany, france though).

Sidenote: my girlfriend does experimental physics in and she has some cooperation with US based team and really is terrible (she also told me about similar things to what you just wrote). Her friend was in US working for some team and it was terrible as well.
You are beeing treated like a slave, no free weekends, no time for your own projects etc. just work. This sucks and is in no way beneficial for scientific idealism (or even producing new ideas). They even steal ideas in the same groups and do not share experimental results, its idiocy, I dont know what happens there but seriously its corrupted.
Is it true also for you and your coworkers ?
Again Im speaking only about my field.

As for publish or perish, no doubt its everywhere. Thankfully my co-supervisor is workaholic and pushes me to do the same but in friendly manner. I also try to get insights/explanations from whoever I meet, it helps in writing papers a lot.

>> No.11293657

>>11281599
idk if you can really claim ted is mentally ill or just faithful to his convictions.

>> No.11293769 [DELETED] 

>>11281431
WHAT THE FUCK
THIS SAYS YOU GRADUATED OVER 10 YEARS AGO
WHAT IN THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN DOING FOR 10+ YEARS???

>> No.11293782

>>11281384
>2nd April, 2016
This is the date when when my life started to take a turn for the worse. Some things I could have done better and avoided, others were out of my control, just bad luck. I also took some very poor decisions and didn't have courage when it counted the most.
My life before this date wasn't perfect either but I was 100% satisfied with how I had lived up to that point. This bad streak continued for upto 2 years upto mid-2018. Since then I've got my life back on track and am quite satisfied. But I believe it could have been at least twice as better if not for my bad streak.
So does anyone know how to go back in time to your younger body with present memories intact? Oh, what I wouldn't give to time travel in this way back to 2nd April 2016.
Your help would be appreciated

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>>11281431
Top 10 my ass.

>> No.11293799

>>11281386
Go to:
1. A think tank
2. Finance
3. Tech/SE

>> No.11293804

>>11285635

>Is there a way to SSH into some sort of supercomputers for free?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inN8seMm7UI

>> No.11293928

>>11293342
>You are beeing treated like a slave, no free weekends, no time for your own projects etc. just work. This sucks and is in no way beneficial for scientific idealism (or even producing new ideas).
Absolutely.
>They even steal ideas in the same groups and do not share experimental results, its idiocy, I dont know what happens there but seriously its corrupted.
Yes. In some domains you have to go so hardcore that you must in no circumstance reveal what you're working on or else you'll be sniped, even within your own group, let alone outside of it, as is my case.
>As for the post doc situation there is plenty of places to do so
Yeah, I've seen that. I've also seen the marie curie grant which looks really juicy though I don't know what the acceptance rate looks like. I plan to do a post-doc in europe eitherway because this way I'll be savvy about both sides of the pond and I'll know first-hand if what they say over here is true. What you're describing certainly sounds encouraging but do you think this could be because you're in a small lab? I've been in a medium-sized lab for my master's and the amount of politics was orders of magnitudes more than right now in the small lab I'm in (but the politics are definitely still there). I also worked industry research in a large lab and it was about as bad as the medium lab but it was in industry so that affects the experience too. It was less subtle but more damaging overall.
My main concern with european post-docs is that except when under a marie curie grant, they really don't pay a lot. The best labs in my field are in the netherlands, germany and switzerland. In the netherlands, they don't give you enough to survive even if you live alone. Germany is more reasonable but pretty tight. Switzerland is generous. Lesser but still good choices are in France but that's even worse than all the others.
Meanwhile over here I would be paid more than enough to live leisurely.
As for what it means for pursuing professorship..

>> No.11293951

>>11285635
The algorithms you're considering all require iterative fitting. An SVM isn't the best choice (though you could discretize and do 1vall or similar), use an LSTM or any other kind of neural network (could be convnet, could be time-unrolled FC), or something more classic. The classic solution for your problem is the HMM.
You should really read up on the topic because trying to use these tools though, you clearly don't understand them yet. As the other anon pointed out, use google colab if you need better GPUs. However don't use tf, it's crap. Use pytorch instead. Maybe some service on top of pytorch like fast.ai that gives you prefab models will help.
Normally you should be looking to train any model on medium-sized but sufficient data 100+ epochs assuming you're using the right optimization algorithm (protip: use ADAM with 1e-3 or 1e-4 learning rate).
Before anything else though you should make sure your data is appropriate:
- How many time series do you have?
- Did you correctly split them into 3 sets (train, validation, test)? Not 2 sets: it MUST be 3 sets. VERY IMPORTANT! Correctly also means that you don't have e.g. the same series (or e.g. the first half of a series vs the second half of the same series) in different sets, otherwise you will have a wrong estimate of overfitting
- Is the data format appropriate? (Is the timelag regular? Do you deal with missing datapoints? What imputation method do you use?)
You might need to play with data formatting a little (not a lot) to get good results, e.g. log-transform or centering.
If you don't use classical methods, you really want to exploit depth as much as possible. Also you probably use too few units in your latent space. Less than 100 units is considered extremely small for almost every problem.
If using LSTMs or CNNs you probably want to top the network with a few layers of FC.

>> No.11294222

>>11293342
> only once, on my 1st paper that was essentially my masters thesis I got shifted to 2nd of 3 authors because previous PhD student of my supervisor needed a 1st author publication for the grant finalisation

That's really scummy, why did you agree to it? Did you get something in return for it?

>>11293928
> In the netherlands, they don't give you enough to survive even if you live alone.

Even if you work a 2x median paying job in this shit country you get paid joke money compared to the prices of everything else here. And a prof makes around 65k pre tax a year here. You wouldn't be able to afford property any time soon until house prices crash hard. I'm not joking about that either, average non ghetto'd house is like 450k euro right now. If you get paid 2x median you get like 65k, which after tax is just a mere 35k which you also need to cover living expenses for. With 60k income you can only get a mortgage of 210k. So goodluck saving up like 250k to even get to the point of being able to buy a home, that'll take you like 10-15 years or so living very modestly, maybe more starting from a debt. But at current rate house prices would be even more insane at that point (unsustainable growth). NL is only good to actually acquire a phd since it's paid phd program, but then its just better to move to eastern Europe or USA and cash in on a well paid industry position.

>> No.11294297

>>11281384
Why do you not spend people telling that you can hijack energy transfer and it is still not breaking newtons law?

>> No.11294387

I'm fast approaching a similar position yet I feel powerless to stop it.

>PhD student at Oxbridge (won't tell which one)
>Doing what is labeled as physics but is more applied physical chemistry
>Basically brainlet experimental shit
>little coding skills, haven't done the super hardcore maths that anyone hiring smart people would look for
>Zero friends in undergrad and zero friends in postgrad, no contacts or societies or anything
>CV is barren
>Advisor just disappeared for reasons I don't know, will apparently be months
>Haven't really gotten to publishing as first author yet, needed advisor guidance on this
>Haven't been to any conferences etc.

So basically I feel the time running out and realize nobody will hire me after I graduate (if I graduate).

>> No.11294390

>>11281384
>PhD in Physics
Lmao yeah sure

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>>11293928
This is a travesty. It doesnt function like that here, its more like a community, if you would do such a thing you would be shunned.
>small lab
In my country its usually a lot of small 3-7ppl labs. More in experiment. However Ive heard about big research institutes in Paris and Hamburg where atmosphere is the same and you have 30 ppl doing the same thing.
Ive never done anything in industry though.
Im from Poland, wage usually given in the countries you mentioned for postdocs are majestic :D Right now my girlfriend is on grant in Germany and she is going to save the amount thats about 20% of a flat in centre of big city. Anyway, its not about money... (but its nice to be rich).

>>11294222
Nothing. I just got fucked and couldnt do anything about it - thats the reason why I have supervisor and co-supervisor, I only do bold work with co-supervisor now. I find that loyalty pays off, in both directions.

Hmm, this seems rather bleak. Im 30 and Im buying a flat this month without any loans, just using all of the stipends I amassed during my PhD studies. And I thought our prices are insane.

>> No.11294414

Explain a 2x2 matrix

>> No.11294423

youve already wasted all this fucking money and time. just go to welding school and get it over with, become a stonemason, anything

>> No.11294427

>>11294395
When I mention the postdoc stipends I saw in the rest of Europe as well as here, I'm always comparing to cost of life. You seem to have forgotten to do that yourself, because even over here, where it'd be decent, I'd never be able to buy a flat until I'm 45 with some luck and that would only come with postdoc + research grant (as an assistant prof which gets paid a grand total of $0/year, you have to get all your money from external grants).

>> No.11294437

>>11294387
>>Zero friends in undergrad and zero friends in postgrad, no contacts or societies or anything

Fuck man, the way oxbridge is setup you must be either poorfag or worked hard for that shit.

>> No.11294440

>>11281459

LOL how the fuck do you "forget how to do fizz buzz"? You figure it out on the spot, you absolute brainlet. It's a simple loop and using some modulo == 0 logic on the 3 and 5s. You can derive the chain rule relatively easily too, but forgetting that is also retard-tier.

t. former physics grad student on the PhD track but was smart enough to leave with a masters before spending all of my 20s and most of my 30s slaving in a lab for 20k a year

>> No.11294443

>>11294427
Even so, all the postdocs I know from Poland all left because Postdoc wage there is total fucking shit and they can make at least double everywhere else. Besides on rent, they also spent basically no money.

>> No.11294520

>>11294437
Not entirely sure what you're referring to. I'm kind of a poorfag and I tried to get to know people at some points but nothing ever really came of it. And past a certain point everyone has cemented their social circles and as an awkward guy I can't just force myself into them.

>> No.11294526

>>11294427
No I did not forgot about the cost of living. Being from post-soviet country taught me to save.
Also Im lost. You mean US ?

>> No.11294616

>>11294526
Yes, I am in the US now and I couldn't possibly have a bank OK me for a mortgage for a flat within commute distance of work, until I'm about 45, assuming I'm on the lucky side.
It's really not about saving, everything is priced the same when trading off transport cost and housing cost to commute to anywhere relevant.

>> No.11296112

300th post

>> No.11296146

>>11281384
Start applying to African universities. I'm not joking.

>> No.11296161

>>11283093
Yeah op should have gotten a phd in art.
*sigh*

>> No.11296430

>>11296161
He should not have gotten any PhD at all.

>> No.11296438

>>11296430
Many PhDs are extremely profitable. He just shouldn't have done physics.

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>> No.11296448

>>11296438
what are the profitable phds? economics?

>> No.11296493

>>11296448
Machine learning, bioinformatics, economics, statistics, pharmaco, biomed eng, among others.
Basically anything in finance, automation, medicine (research, not butchery), or combinations thereof.

>> No.11296634

>>11282356
>>11284887
>>11289504
It's literally as easy as bothering to talk to people. If you're at uni now just look at the person next to you and ask if they want to study at the library with you later. Doesn't matter if that person is a gorgeous girl that you're scared of, or a stinky neckbeard. Talking to people and hanging out with them will get you friends eventually. Worst that can happen is they say they're busy.

>> No.11296652

>>11293789
imagine being this much of a faggot

>> No.11296668

>>11296634
lol'd so fucking hard. Are you 10?

>> No.11296670

>>11293789
That's not a rating arranged by quality but rather a rating arranged by how much bribe money was spent to be in the ratings.

>> No.11296685

>>11296146
>African universities
redpill on this?

>> No.11296750

>>11284948
Might be hard to break in. Do actuary instead. You'll still make physician money if you do well and it'll save you a lot of grief.

The downside is you have to deal with dumb fuck normies from meme universities all the time complaining about how hard the actuary exams are (they're really fucking easy).

>> No.11296764

>>11284948
People who recruit for quant consider CS to be quant so long as you didn't do too much meme shit during your degree so generally yes.

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>>11284709
stop taking estrogen

>> No.11297137

>>11296685
south african ones. rhodes, cape town durban. Good shit. Easy, peaceful, paid plenty. I know many Germans who took the SA pill, life is good.

>> No.11297171

>>11281658
Fix your tone, you cretin.

>> No.11297229

>>11281386
Welcome to modern academia. You'll fit right in.

>> No.11297243

>>11293287
Many reasons.
Publish or perish means there is rarely time to do proper good research.
The stochastic nature of research means most attempts will be dead ends. Because of the previous point, you have pressure to publish despite unfruitful efforts.
Fame, power, recognition, greed...
Related to the above, politics (if your findings are kosher or not) and office politics (if someone else is jealous of your success or if your PI has friends or favored researchers).
Publication requirements (if someone else lies, it might become hard or impossible to publish without lying in turn, at least partially, because you have to be better than something that's not real).
Similarly, editors' opinions (they might want to push a specific scientific or not-so-scientific agenda and require certain results regardless of what your true results show, in which case you can either comply and publish or you can refuse and perish).

>> No.11297457

>>11285015
I hope you meant to actually say sociological psychological issues.

>> No.11297488

>>11294520
This is the type of shit that I never dreamed that I thought I would have dreaded before switching to psychology from chemistry. Godspeed, anon.

PS, I'm jobless too and I loathe the idea of becoming med/phd in my field because I'd make hospitals lose money due to touchy feely methods and private practice is about as stimulating as being a life coach for a top tier financial institution.

>> No.11297591

>>11284761
Mind sharing who this guy who failed to get tenure was? Deadly curious as i know of a certain case. Wondering if same.

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>>11281384
Hey OP. I'm a post-doc doing who was unemployed for a few months. Really curious about your case. Can't stick around for thread. Got a discord? Mine is Something0#9288.

>> No.11298309

>>11296668
Not him, but stop projecting.
Seriously, if you are troubled by being friendless, talk to people that you get into contact with in real life anyway.
And there is hardly an easier "pretext" than being in the same lecture.

t. friendless all through high school, but made good friends at uni