When you feel vulnerable, whatever the reason, try to stop your brain focusing on the things you lack, and analyse the things you can bring and share with the group. Sometimes all we have to bring to the table is enthusiasm and time, but that's already a lot.

Happy Science!

And this analysis will depend on the crowd you're in and the theme of interest. But for example it can be that you have a closer link to the day-to-day challenges of the science or the method because you ACTUALLY DO IT (professor delegate).

Maybe you know a novel method, maybe you have QUESTIONS!

When you're the youngest in the room, there will be things you have less of: titles, number of papers, research achievements. It's when we focus on these that we talk ourselves down or over compensate.

So we need to focus on what we have MORE of:

Don't talk yourself down, but don't over-compensate.

When we feel "small" humans have one of two common ways of coping: Some will talk themselves down in an attempt to raise sympathy from the crowd; some will exaggerate their confidence or achievement to feel less small.

There's another way...

Ice Crystals in the atmosphere!

Design.

The hardest part of applied ML is asking the right question and choosing the right metrics.

Once you've done that you can pick the right model and in science it's often not the biggest newest thing!

ML is not a dick measuring contest but I'll leave this for another rant later today 💅

But everyone goes for viridis (hahaha cuz it's the default)

Happy to deliver

Aimed for plasma, got magma. Winning

Aimed for plasma, got magma