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I kind of don't understand why people would want to move to germany. Maybe it's just a grass-on-the-other-side kind of thing, but my impression is that germany is falling behind rather quickly. For IT related stuff, I'd say Luxembourg is the place to go in Europe.
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I live in Poland, so the grass is really more green on the other side (or at least it gets 3-4 times more water ;)). I also want to keep in touch with my friends and family and Berlin is within 2h car trip, so I could come back for a weekend once in a while.
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[Career advice] Machine learning jobs
Learn German in Berlin? I know that many people here who want to learn French or Spanish do it by moving to France or Spain to work or study there.
Given your qualification you will very likely be able to earn money in Berlin without speaking any German. And everything else won't be a problem either, since you speak English.
Also see here. Sounds a bit weird, since as someone from Poland you won't need any "integration" assistance, but those courses are free, or very cheap, and help you to learn German. And as a citizen of the European Union you are not obliged to anything, so you can leave if you don't like it.
I know German good enough to communicate (I make a lot of mistakes though). It's not the main factor holding me from moving there right away. The reason I'm planning to work as Java programmer in Poland is to earn some money. I will need it to rent a living place and survive first months before i find a job.
[Career advice] Machine learning jobs
I'm about to get my masters degree in computer science. I've been interested in AI for a few years, studying mathematics and machine learning. I'm pretty sure that I would like to work as machine learning specialist. The question I have for you is: how do I do that?
I live in Szczecin, Poland. It's just 150km from Berlin and I am willing to move there if necessary. My current plan is:
- Work as Java programmer with a friend of mine.
- Keep on learning maths and machine learning.
- Learn German.
- Earn some money to move to Berlin.
- Move to Berlin
- Find machine-learning related job.
I'm still unsure if I should get phd. I don't know if machine learning jobs are common in private sector, but I think they will be in near future (am I wrong about this?). What do you think?
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Overcoming Suffering & Buddhism
Karma is also a silly idea, in my opinion.
There are perfectly sensibe aspects of karma. Karma means "action" or "deed", with the implication that actions have associated consequences, that it is useful to consider to be part of the action. It reflects the common principle: as you reap, so you sow.
Karma means (unfortunately) something more than that to buddhists. The view you described is something smart people came up with to make it acceptable for themselves. Original buddhist karma is ultimate balance of good and evil in the universe.
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Raw silicon ore of perfect emptiness
Does killing you and building a computer out of your atoms count as explaining something to you?
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Existing Absurd Technologies
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Seeking suggestions: Less Wrong Biology 101
I always wanted to know more about genetics, but didn't have enough time to study it. Basic tutorial + good links + outline of current state-of-art would be interesting to me. I do understand that it's a bit off-topic for this forum however.
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It's not clear why this reflects poorly on philosophers.
Like, I'm sure you could find the same thing with controversial scientific questions. Maybe not to the same magnitude.
Suppose you didn't find it. "Well, yes, we disagree about a number of seemingly-simple topics, but these disagreements aren't correlated to our personality, so we really have everything figured out, it's just that .... uh .... um "
I suspect it's the same for scientists for controversial topics. But discussing controversial topics is not science. Coming up with a way to verify a claim is. In general personality must be correlated with opinion (or at least that's my intuition :)).