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Could you share some examples of articles/paper projects you undertake? Do you always publish them or keep them for yourself?

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For the last ~3 years I worked for companies. No proper publication. But some articles here and there [0]. My Master’s thesis [T]. A (trivial) game to learn Ruby [1]. There are a lot that are not published anywhere.

I have left my full time job this month, and now pursuing full time research independently hoping some papers + job exp. + GRE lands me a PhD in a good research uni.

When you are working, try to make sure that the job aligns with your long term goals. Then learn a lot from work. Learning at work is effortless.

[0]: https://www.kaggle.com/code/truthr/learn-jax-from-linear-reg...

[T]: https://zenodo.org/records/7840239

[1]: https://ritog.itch.io/silly-dragon-target-game

Thank you. That’s very helpful. My day job is pretty basic stuff so I’m trying to learn things on the side, but have the same worry that the day job is where the main learning opportunities would be, so I probably need to find a better gig. Thanks, and good luck on your PhD search.

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