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It made me pretty sad to learn the physicist who authored the Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics is now in SEO. He is apparently in it for the money. http://britneyspears.ac/physics/about/about.htm
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He can use it such that the model's predictions are still manually verified by him before actually submitting them or whatever. Seems pretty harmless to me.
In his current situation, if he zones out, he produces nothing. In the situation where he's aided by the potentially faulty described system, if he zones out, he produces erroneously transcribed data.
These days I'm back in the UK (Brighton) and enjoying the arrival of my first child. I'm still working in Node for API and unusual proxy servers, with some Rust on the side. Enthusiastic about the indieweb movement.
When I got my PhD (1999) the American Physical Society said that you had a 2% chance of getting a permanent job in the field with a PhD. At that point you are not being judged on your merits but on your connections, ability to navigate politics, etc. (The job is way too valuable compared to the value you can give to it.) I saw a postdoc who is now rather well known struggling with anxiety over his career even though…
I've been out for a few years, so I don't know what the current state of affairs is.
I left academia after my postdoc and went to work at one of the think tanks in the DC area for a few years. When I got tired of being a government contractor and left to work in natural language processing and machine learning.
Now, I build machine learning software to detect financial misconduct like insider trading. I also built software that helps law enforcement find minors who are being trafficked.
Some of the mathematical and computational methods used in physics are used in machine learning, so it was a relatively painless transition.
I'm also developing some mobile apps in areas where there isn't already saturation.
Condensed matter physics PhD (2016) now working in the software industry as a data scientist. Focused on modelling/simulating materials during my thesis and realized that I loved the software aspect of things and did not love working on the same problem for many months at a time. As others mentioned, transitioning to data science is not that hard if you have a physics background and there are many interesting problem…
Those are wonderful! I dug them up late in my undergrad and spend some fun times with them.
I have a bachelors in Physics. When I finished my bachelors I took a long look at my odds of getting a job in physics, then moved to Silicon Valley and marketed myself as a software developer. I'm now about a year out from finishing my PhD in Aerospace Engineering, and I've been working at NASA for the past three years. It's nice to read all the other survivor stories in this thread of those of us that spent years st…