This is a pretty powerful #article on doing a #phd https://thoughtsbyaashiq.bearblog.dev/iv.. It is incredibly easy to become stalled and #demotivated , espcially if the #work no longer #excites you. I really don't have any good #advice or even know of any #experience like it. The feeling is some kind of personal #hell that you make for yourself. Worth reading the #comments too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=344..
Working balls to the wall tonight. I am well over #extended on an insanely #important #phd #deadline and unless I can get the right #output - it looks like I did nothing for two months. I could have done without this shit #tonight ... But to be honest, there was never going to be a good night for it.
Interesting #discussion about the possibility of #publishing a #book https://blog.alexellis.io/one-year-of-se.. It will make the list of things I will want to work on after this #phd ...
Interesting #discussion about the use of the #greek #alphabet in #latex #equations https://www.gwern.net/Variables Might be cool to use one on the lesser used #variables in my #phd to avoid confusion... Interesting piece of #analysis anyway!
This is a #hilarious #illustrative #guide to a #phd https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-scho.. It's #depressing but true haha!
Maddening #story about a #uk #university #phd #student #living in a #tent because the #royalholloway #university doesn't pay #lecturers https://www.theguardian.com/education/20.. Insanity.
A #journal #paper I had been working on for a while did reasonably well in the #review process, so now to make the changes and #submit a final version for my #phd . This is actually really quite nice to finally be making some #progress after quite some time.
An interesting #idea is to make #deadsocial #operate entirely #offline - where the #server is not even #required in order to use the #service ... I will have a think on this after my #phd #deadline ! This was always the goal with this #system anyway!
I might try to catch this #hackaday #chat on #robot #dogs - it could be *very* interesting: https://hackaday.com/2021/09/27/robot-do.. This is something I've wanted to build for a while "when I have some time" (a phrase all too common during this #phd ).
Today I want to finish outstanding #lotuseaters #podcasts , apply for my #passport #renewal , finish some #coffeespace #articles , plan and work on my #phd #journal , finish an #anime I'm watching and start on watching the new season of #lucifer . A lot of things, but should be possible. It's a shame the #library isn't yet open...
Insanity, what is the point on working on faster and faster #software and #operatingsystems if the bloody #keyboard itself adds ridiculous #latency for no apparent reason? https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/ This is why we need more #affordable #opensource #keyboards ... After this #phd I will definitely be looking into creating my own #hardware - the current situation simply won't be tolerated.
Haha, we've all been there whilst staring at #data on a #phd https://twitter.com/astro_katross/status..
@barray on Sat Aug 07 06:05:27 UTC 2021 said: &eFor example, I remember a #phd #student in #nz that shared "stories" with an #administrator - they were pretty weird. It wasn't malicious or threatening in any way, just weird. The Administrator then requested that they not go near them, an almost #injunction against the student which was enforced by the #university . And this literally had no #politics attached.Something about this story still doesn't make sense: https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-stu.. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of the first to get #critical about #china 's #ccp - but something about this #swiss #phd student getting removed from their PhD seems strange. Also I highly suspect that the #supervisor had something to do with the #termination ... I'm still waiting to see actual emails before making judgement.
Something about this story still doesn't make sense: https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-stu.. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of the first to get #critical about #china 's #ccp - but something about this #swiss #phd student getting removed from their PhD seems strange. Also I highly suspect that the #supervisor had something to do with the #termination ... I'm still waiting to see actual emails before making judgement.
Been on a roll these last few days with #coffeespace articles, for some reason I got some more of my #deeper #thinking back recently. Looking forward to applying it to other areas, including the #phd and #robocup ... I suspect this is one of the more long term benefits of the #keto #diet !
Currently working on getting a #visa extension for my #phd - it's a super pain getting all the relevant paperwork together. It needs to come from a bunch of different sources and they don't all arrive when you need them. Understandably the visa process is quite strict too and they want everything evidenced to stop people gaming their system.