jane do

always searching and researching | tech sis working in ai/cv

[jane do @tech_sista]

It’s been about 5 months since I moved back to San Francisco. So I thought it would be a good time to post an update about everything new and wonderful I’ve experienced in the city so far.

I wrote about it on my substack: https://t.co/OJ5u4lYgba

[jane do @tech_sista]

making slides using powerpoint and realizing how deliberately difficult and non-intuitive it is to insert animations etc that it's somehow a lot easier to vibe code my own powerpoint equivalent.

[jane do @tech_sista]

better metric is choosing a man that doesn’t make you waste your tokens on complaining to your ai about them

[Craig Weiss @craigweiss]

women in sf are now choosing men based off their token usage

[jane do @tech_sista]

Guess the city

[jane do @tech_sista]

okay but hear me out too

[sid @immasiddx]

Hear me out too

[jane do @tech_sista]

you know optimal levels of stress have been achieved when your own manager asks you to not be stressed

[jane do @tech_sista]

Not confluence “it’s probably not you, it’s me”-ing me

[jane do @tech_sista]

If AI agents start making social connections among each other, it would it be called neural networking

[jane do @tech_sista]

when there’s mutual shallow interest in dating but you’re both just going with the flow

[jane do @tech_sista]

on a scale of 1-10 how serious are you about your fitness journey

me:

[jane do @tech_sista]

When you’re planning for a brunch + movie plan in a time crunch and your type A side start acting up

[jane do @tech_sista]

idk if i'm ready to wield this kind of power

[jane do @tech_sista]

@ashu_1069 looks divine! where is this?

[jane do @tech_sista]

ain't no slot machines beating the dopamine from 1 min bullet matches on https://t.co/Gparn9qB34

[jane do @tech_sista]

I’m currently on a strict diet consisting of word salads. It tends to be good food for thought.

[jane do @tech_sista]

@ashu_1069 Lmao 🤣

[jane do @tech_sista]

Lot of discourse on work-life balance during PhD - sure there’s an element of dedicating complete devotion to the topic of research, in fact for the main theoretical result from my first NeurIPS paper, I spent about a week thinking about the proof constantly before I had my Eureka moment.

Having said that - it’s not a necessary condition for breakthrough research. With time you develop sufficient creative muscle, intuition and pattern recognition that allows you to derive insights without as much effort.

Also there are negative consequences of over indexing on work/PhD - which is that inevitably, you will encounter a time where your research doesn’t translate into the results you want and which in many cases translates to anxiety and depression that basically takes away from your scientific creativity and productivity.

[Mayukh @mayukh_panja]

I don’t agree. A PhD student should not prioritize work-life balance.

Getting to do a PhD is a privilege. You are paid to think. There is no pressure for you to be economically useful. It is a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of human knowledge and produce something ground breaking.

And nothing great ever happens without complete devotion. Look at everything that moved and shaped the world. Every single person who created anything meaningful, in science, in arts, in music, in movies, devoted their lives to their craft.

Extraordinary outcomes require extraordinary inputs and some degree of sacrifice. Sure, have work-life balance during your PhD. But be content a mediocre outcome.

[jane do @tech_sista]

top 10 annoying things that can happen on a wednesday is having to sit through a meeting with video on and pretending to show interest cause your skip skip manager is on the call and i can almost see myself sub this for the sound of nails grating on a chalkboard

[jane do @tech_sista]

@rishdotuk 💯

[jane do @tech_sista]

Avoidance is just pre-calibrating disappointment.