Thanks, Viliam. I appreciate your insights. I read a few Paul Graham essays, and I loved them, and I’m going to read all of them.
I agree with you that acquiring generally useful skills such as mathematics is a good bet. I’ve been in the software industry for ~3 years, and sadly the most mathematics I’ve used in my software job is multiplication.
I tend to perform best if I have a north star to motivate my learning and practising. This north star is something for me to figure out, and it’s a never-ending process.
I came across this interview with Demis Hassabis recently. (Demis inspired me to study CS in the first place.) He said there is no defined career path in academia if you want to be a career engineer, meaning that academia loses the best engineers because they choose to work in the industry. I’m very excited about the many new opportunities that allow engineers to contribute to research projects in the industry, so for me, this seems like a nicely defined goal to go after.
Thanks, Viliam. I appreciate your insights. I read a few Paul Graham essays, and I loved them, and I’m going to read all of them.
I agree with you that acquiring generally useful skills such as mathematics is a good bet. I’ve been in the software industry for ~3 years, and sadly the most mathematics I’ve used in my software job is multiplication.
I tend to perform best if I have a north star to motivate my learning and practising. This north star is something for me to figure out, and it’s a never-ending process.
I came across this interview with Demis Hassabis recently. (Demis inspired me to study CS in the first place.) He said there is no defined career path in academia if you want to be a career engineer, meaning that academia loses the best engineers because they choose to work in the industry. I’m very excited about the many new opportunities that allow engineers to contribute to research projects in the industry, so for me, this seems like a nicely defined goal to go after.