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Ask HN: Has anybody switched to software engineering from machine learning?
I used to be a software engineer for 3 years. Then I studied NLP for MSc and now I am an applied scientist at a FAANG company. I like my job because it's intellectually challenging and I like research but one thing I miss a lot is coding. I code far less than I used to. Because we mostly do data gathering and fine-tuning, which is pretty standard in any sort of applied positions but doesn't...
Ask HN: How to disable my analytical side after work?
I'm highly analytical and this has helped me a lot in my careers as an engineer and scientist. But outside of work, in personal life, I really suffer from it, and the overthinking resulted from it. The situation has become much worse as a result of living alone during the pandemic. Is there anyway to become intellectually shallow like having an IQ<100, after work? (Except meditation that is...
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Ask HN: How do you manage your learning while being busy with a full time job?
I'm a curious person and I have thirst for knowledge and learning. There are tons of stuff that I've always wanted to learn. When I was a BSc student, I remember I used to learn actively and I used to do self-defined projects. But after graduation and getting employed things have changed. Let's say I want to learn a new programming language by doing a self-defined project or some math like...
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Ask HN: What are some client side hacks you use on a website?
By client side hack I mean bypassing a restriction of a web application through a client side modification (bypassing the JS code or modifying the html form).
Should I Pursue a PhD?
I'm struggling about deciding wether or not I should pursue PhD. Answering this question is not definitely objective and depends on my background and my values. So I try to explain a little bit then I would like to get advice from you guys.Currently I'm studying for my M.Sc in Vancouver. My field of research is natural language processing and more specifically neural machine translation. I...
Re:Ask HN: How do you get over perfectionism/overthinking in hobby pro...
on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:36AM (#18919693)
I guess yes. I recently found out that some part of my motivations about doing things has been getting feedback from people (It releases dopamine and makes you feel validated).
I used to be a software engineer and I'm somehow obsessed with designing software architectures with minimum cost of change in future. It makes me crazy to design something on-the-fly without considering the cost of changes. That's the reason I have obsession for writing general-purpose abstract codes... It really makes me crazy but I don't know what to do with it...
Ask HN: How do you get over perfectionism/overthinking in hobby projects?
I have many empty repositories at Github which were supposed to be ML softwares. The reason is that whenever I started to write code, I was obsessed with making it abstract, extendable, modular, easy-to-read, ... (Rare thing among ML softwares) So most of my time was spent on designing modules without writing any actual ML code! And then I got disappointed and let it go. Any suggestion on how...