I heard the postdoc's purpose is to be a happiness pump that adds to the good of science at the expense of their free time, so I went to lodge a complaint with the father of Utilitarianism.

(Yes, I've started a postdoc at UCL! Super excited!)

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We are getting closer to the NINeS deadline (October 1).

Watch Scott talk about why you should submit your work to NINeS!

I'm not sure it'd work since this was before LLMs and in OS, but the thing that worked for me was telling them they should do the HW themselves because every interviewer will ask them to implement something related to the material, so whatever their final grade is, they WANT to know it.

Uh man, I really needed a good laugh today 😂

NINeS has such a cool mission statement!

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